Leogangite, ideally Cu
10(AsO
4)
4(SO
4)(OH)
6·8H
2O, was found on sample material from mine dumps of the Danielstollen and Inschlagalm in the Schwarzleo valley, both part of the polymetallic ore district of Leogang, Salzburg province, Austria. It is intergrown with olivenite and malachite, all together coating small voids within a tennantite-bearing dolomite breccia, and is assumed to have formed as an alteration product of arsenic-rich fahlore. Associated minerals are tyrolite, parnauite, strashimirite, euchroite, brochantite, langite, posnjakite, and devilline. The new mineral crystallizes with monoclinic symmetry, space group
C2/
c (no. 15), with
a=21.770(7)
20[`4]{\it 20}{\bar {\it 4}}
); 5.44, 50, (
400); 3.625, 50, (
600); 3.090, 40, (
023). The structure of the mineral was refined to
R1=0.095 for 1768 unique reflections with
$F^2_{\rm o} > 4\sigma(F^2_{\rm o})$F^2_{\rm o} > 4\sigma(F^2_{\rm o})
and is a new representative of the rare [5]-coordinated Cu
2+ compounds with edge-sharing CuO
5 square pyramids. The main motif consists of [Cu
4O
14] tetramers. Together with the AsO
4 tetrahedra and the remaining CuO
5 polyhedron they build complex heteropolyhedral layers parallel to (
100), which are linked by the SO
4 tetrahedron and parts of the hydrogen bonds along the
a-axis, thus forming a complex open framework structure. Chemical, optical and X-ray powder pattern characteristics are the distinguishing features to similar minerals like parnauite, tyrolite, or clinotyrolite.