| Svabite | |
| Imasymbol: | Sva[1] |
| Color: | Colorless yellowish white, gray, grayish green, colorless to pale lilac in transmitted light |
| Habit: | As stout prismatic hexagonal crystals, often modified by several bipyramids, up to 5 mm; also massive |
| Cleavage: | Indistinct on |
| Fracture: | Irregular/uneven |
| Tenacity: | Brittle |
| Mohs: | 4.0 – 5.0 |
| Density: | 3.50 – 3.80 (g/cm3) |
| Refractive: | 1.698 – 1.706 Uniaxial (−) |
| Other: | Soluble in dilute acids |
Svabite is a arsenate mineral.[2] The mineral is rare and is also a member of the apatite group.[3] It is isomorphous with apatite and mimetite.
It got its name in 1891 by Hjalmar Sjögren after Anton von Swab.[4]
Svabite can be found in countries like Sweden or Germany.
The mineral is rare in calc-silicate skarns and arsenate analogue.[5]