Abstract:Tooeleite is a ferric arsenite sulfate mineral only found in acid mine drainage at present, and its chemical formula is Fe6(AsO3)4(SO4)(OH)4·4 H2O. Few literatures have reported this mineral, and hence some important spectroscopic and mineralogical data are lacking. The authors synthesized tooeleite using temperature-constant water batch reactor, and for the first time adopted infrared and Raman spectroscopy techniques to characterize it. The result show that: the characteristic peak at FTIR of 770 cm-1 is attributed to stretch vibration of As—O; the characteristic peaks at Raman of 663, 609, 512, 455 and 365 cm-1 are attributed to the stretch vibration of As—OH (υ3), asymmetric stretch vibration (υ5), asymmetric bending vibration (υ4) of AsO33- and bending vibration of O—As—O; the incongruent dissolution occurs when pH of solution is higher than 3. The batch experiment determined for the first time the solubility product (Ksp) and the standard Gibbs free energy of the reaction, which are 107.7 and -3 605 kJ/mol, respectively.