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Name: Stottite RRUFF ID: R120089 Ideal Chemistry: Fe2+Ge(OH)6 Locality: Tsumeb, Namibia Source: William W Pinch [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Yellow to red gemmy crystals and fragments associated with chalcocite R120090, siderite and tennantite Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by single crystal X-ray diffraction. |
Mineral Group: [ Perovskite (44) ] |
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POWDER DIFFRACTION | |||||||
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RRUFF ID: | R120089.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 7.551(2)Å b: 7.551(2)Å c: 7.465(3)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 425.67(7)Å3 Crystal System: tetragonal |
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REFERENCES for Stottite | |
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American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record] |
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Anthony J W, Bideaux R A, Bladh K W, and Nichols M C (1990) Handbook of Mineralogy, Mineral Data Publishing, Tucson Arizona, USA, by permission of the Mineralogical Society of America. [view file] |
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Fleischer M (1958) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 43, 1006-1008 [view file] |
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Strunz H, Söhnge G, Geier B H (1958) Stottit, ein neues Germanium-Mineral, und seine Paragenese in Tsumeb, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1958, 85-96 |
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Strunz H (1959) Tsumeb, seine Erze und Sekundärmineralien, insbesondere der neu aufgeschlossenen zweiten Oxydationszone, Fortschritte der Mineralogie, 37, 87-90 |
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Zemann J (1959) Der strukturtyp von stottit, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1959, 67-69 |
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Strunz V H, Giglio M (1961) Die Kristellstruktur von Stottit Fe[Ge(OH)6], Acta Crystallographica, 14, 205-208 |
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Bernstein L R, Waychunas G A, (1987) Germanium crystal chemistry in hematite and goethite from the Apex Mine, Utah, and some new data on germanium in aqueous solution in the stottite, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 51, 623-630 |
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Ross C R, Bernstein L R, Waychunas G A (1988) Crystal-structure refinement of stottite, FeGe(OH)6, American Mineralogist, 73, 657-661 [view file] |
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Ross N L, Chaplin T D, Welch M D (2002) Compressibility of stottite, FeGe(OH)6: An octahedral framework with protonated O atoms, American Mineralogist, 87, 1410-1414 [view file] |
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Kleppe A K, Welch M D, Crichton W A, Jephcoat A P (2012) Phase transitions in hydroxide perovskites: a Raman spectroscopic study of stottite, FeGe(OH)6, to 21 GPa, Mineralogical Magazine, 76, 949-962 [view file] |
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Mitchell R H, Welch M D, Chakhmouradian A R (2017) Nomenclature of the perovskite supergroup: A hierarchical system of classification based on crystal structure and composition, Mineralogical Magazine, 81, 411-461 [view file] |
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