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Reference: Ozdín D., 2009-2015: Minerals of Slovakia. www.ozdinminerals.com
Index of occurence in Slovakia:

    1. EXCEPTIONAL      1 - 2 localities
   2. RARE                       3 - 6 localities
   3. INFREQUENT         7 - 15 localities
   4. ABUDANT               15 - 50 localities
   5. MORE ABUDANT  > 50 localities
Identification rating of mineral in Slovakia:

 1. WELL IDENTIFIED - mostly combination at least 2 most distinguished analytical methods (X -ray diffraction and electron microprobe)

2. PARTIALLY-INDENTIFIED - mineral mostly analyzed, but for well identification is need to make another analyses

3. UNDERIDENTIFIED - mineral mostly identified only visual, often very problematic or fictive
 

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Minerals of Slovakia

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Wavellite, weissite, whewellite, whitlockite, willemite, willyamite, witherite, wittichenite, wollastonite, woodruffite, wroewolfeite, wulfenite, wurtzite.

Wavellite        Al3(PO4)2(OH,F)3ˇ5H2O         orth.
Index of occurence in Slovakia: 1                

Identification rating of mineral in Slovakia: 1   

Type locality: High Down quarry, Barnstaple, Devonshire, England, United Kingdom (Babington, 1805)
Oldest description from Slovakia area: Sirk - Železník (Zimányi, 1908), resp. (Ulrich, 1922)
Localities in Slovak Republic (3) and identification rating (in parenthesis): Sirk - Železník (1), Vígžašská Huta-Kalinka (1), Košice-Šaca (3)
Size: macroscopic
Largest crystal from Slovakia area: 0.2 mm long prismatic crystals in 4 mm large spherulites (Vígžašská Huta-Kalinka; Ozdín & Bukovina, 2001)

Wavellit - Vígžašská Huta-Kalinka

Wavellit - Vígžašská Huta-Kalinka

Wavellite from Vígžašská Huta-Kalinka; field of view ~ 7 cm (Photo D. Ozdín)

Wavellite from Vígžašská Huta-Kalinka; field of view 3.5 cm (Photo D. Ozdín)
 
Notes: Find from Košice (Ďuďa, 1995) is without all analytical data.
References

Babington W., 1805: Phil. Trans.,162.
Ďuďa R., 1995: Slovenské minerály. Nové poznatky z rokov 1980 - 1995. Bull. mineral.-petrolog. Odd. Nár. Muz. (Praha), 3, 141-164. (in Slovak)
Ozdín D. & Bukovina J., 2001: Výskyt wavellitu Al3(PO4)2(OH,F)2ˇ5H2O pri Vígžašskej Hute - Kalinke. Bull. mineral.-petrolog. Odd. Nár. Muz. (Praha), 9, 243-247. (in Slovak)
Ulrich F., 1922: Příspěvek k poznání fosforečnanů železa a hliníku.Rozpravy Čes. Akad. Věd Umění, 31, 10, 1-11. (in Czech)

Zimányi K., 1908: Math. Termeszettud. Ért., 26, 72-76. (in Hungarian)

Zimányi K., 1909: Vashegyit, ein neues basisches Aluminiumphosphat von Comitat Gömör. Zeits. Kristatallog. Mineral., 47, 1, 53-55. (in German)
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Whitlockite      Ca9(Mg,Fe2+)(PO4)6(PO3OH)         tricl.
Index of occurence in Slovakia: 1   

Identification rating of mineral in Slovakia: 2   

Type locality: Palermo no. 1 mine, North Groton, Grafton Co., New Hampshire, USA (Frondel, 1940)
Oldest description from Slovakia area: Rumanová (meteorite) (Rojkovič et al., 1995)
Localities in Slovak Republic (1) and identification rating (in parenthesis): Rumanová (2)
Size: microscopic
Largest crystal from Slovakia area: 0.3 mm (Rumanová; Rojkovič et al., 1995)

Photo is not available
 
Notes: Identification is uncertain because is not given x-ray analysis or EBSD.
References

Frondel C., 1941: Whitlockite: A new calcium phosphate Ca3(PO4)2. Amer. Min., 26, 145-152.

Rojkovič I., Porubčan V., Siman P., 1995: Nález meteoritu pri obci Rumanová. Mineralia Slovaca, 27, 4, 331-342. (in Slovak)

Rojkovič I., Siman P., Porubčan V., 1997: Rumanová H5 chondrite, Slovakia. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 32, A151-153.
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Willemite         Zn2SiO4         trig.
Index of occurence in Slovakia: 1  

Identification rating of mineral in Slovakia: 3   

Type locality: Altenberg, Moresnet, provincia Liège, Belgium (Lévy, 1830)
Oldest description from Slovakia area: Dobšiná - Čuntava (Melczer, 1907) and Ardovo (Eisele, 1907)
Localities in Slovak Republic (2) and identification rating (in parenthesis): Dobšiná - Čuntava (3), Ardovo (3)
Size: probably macroscopic (only historical descriptions without all data)
Largest crystal from Slovakia area: -
Photo is not available
 
Notes: Oldest mention about occurence of willemite listed Herčko (1984) from Dobšiná that as original source quote of Maderspach (1880). I have studied this work and I did not find about willemite no reference.
References
Eisele G., 1907: Gömör és Kishont törvényesen egyesült vármegyék bányászati monografiája. Selmeczbánya, 546 p. (in Hungarian)
Herčko I., 1984: Minerály Slovenska. Osveta, Martin., 240 p. (in Slovak)

Lévy A., 1830: Neues Jahrb. Miner., 71. (in German)

Maderspach L., 1880: Magyarország vasércz-fekhelyei. Budapest, 111 p. (in Hungarian)

Melczer G., 1907: Gömörmegye ásványai. In: Eisele G.: Gömör és Borsód vármegyék bányászati és kohászati monografiája. Selmeczbánya, 521-546. (in Hungarian)
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