What is "lipscombite"

n. (context mineralogy English) A tetragonal-trapezohedral mineral containing hydrogen, iron, manganese, oxygen, and phosphorus.

Lipscombite (Fe,Mn)(Fe)(PO)(OH) is a green gray, olive green, or black. phosphate-based mineral containing iron, magnesium, and iron phosphate.

Lipscombite is often formed at meteorite impact sites where its crystals are microscopically small, because crystal-forming conditions of pressure and temperature are brief.

In the classification of minerals lipscombite is in the lipscombite group, which also includes zinclipscombite. This group is within the non-silicate, category 8, anhydrous phosphates, lazulite supergroup.