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Mineral contains: Foitite
Bačík P, Ertl A, Števko M, Giester G, Sečkár P (2015) Acicular zoned tourmaline (magnesio-foitite to foitite) from a quartz vein near Tisovec, Slovakia: the relationship between crystal chemistry and acicular habit. The Canadian Mineralogist 53, 221-234
Balan E, Radtke G, Fourdrin C, Paulatto L, Horn H A, Fuchs Y (2023) Effect of Fe–Fe interactions and X-site vacancy ordering on the OH-stretching spectrum of foitite. European Journal of Mineralogy 35, 105-116
Bosi F (2018) Tourmaline crystal chemistry. American Mineralogist 103, 298-306
Dyar M D, Taylor M E, Lutz T M, Francis C A, Guidotti C V, Wise M (1998) Inclusive chemical characterization of tourmaline: Mössbauer study of Fe valence and site occupancy. American Mineralogist 83, 848-864
Ertl A, Schuster R, Hughes J M, Ludwig T, Meyer H-P, Finger F, Dyar M D, Ruschel K, Rossman G R, Klötzli U, Brandstätter F, Lengauer C L, Tillmanns E (2012) Li-bearing tourmalines in Variscan granitic pegmatites from the Moldanubian nappes, Lower Austria. European Journal of Mineralogy 24, 695-715
Francis C A, Dyar M D, Williams M L, Hughes J M (1999) The occurrence and crystal structure of foitite from a tungsten-bearing vein at Copper Mountain, Taos County, New Mexico. The Canadian Mineralogist 37, 1431-1438
Gashrova B, Mihailova B, Konstantinov L (1997) Raman spectra of various types of tourmaline. European Journal of Mineralogy 9, 935-940
Hawthorne F C, Henry D J (1999) Classification of the minerals of the tourmaline group. European Journal of Mineralogy 11, 201-215
Henry D J, Novák M, Hawthorne F C, Ertl A, Dutrow B L, Uher P, Pezzotta F (2011) Nomenclature of the tourmaline-supergroup minerals. American Mineralogist 96, 895-913
Kahlenberg V, Velickov B (2000) Structural investigations on a synthetic alkali-free hydrogen-deficient Fe-tourmaline (foitite). European Journal of Mineralogy 12, 947-953
Lensing-Burgdorf M, Watenphul A, Schlüter J, Mihailova B (2017) Crystal chemistry of tourmalines from the Erongo Mountains, Namibia, studied by Raman spectroscopy. European Journal of Mineralogy 29, 257-267
MacDonald D J, Hawthorne F C (1993) Foitite, [Fe2+2(Al,Fe3+)]Al6Si6O18(BO3)3(OH)4, a new alkali-deficient tourmaline: description and crystal structure. American Mineralogist 78, 1299-1303
Medaris L G, Fournelle J H, Henry D J (2003) Tourmaline-bearing quartz veins in the Baraboo quartzite Wisconsin: occurrence and significance of foitite and "oxy-foitite". The Canadian Mineralogist 41, 749-758
Novák M, Taylor M C (2000) Foitite: formation during late stages of evolution of complex granitic pegmatites at Dobrá Voda, Czech Republic, and Pala, California, U.S.A.. The Canadian Mineralogist 38, 1399-1408
Pezzotta F, Hawthorne F C, Cooper M A, Teertstra D K (1996) Fibrous foitite from San Piero in Campo, Elba, Italy. The Canadian Mineralogist 34, 741-744
Watenphul A, Burgdorf M, Schlüter J, Horn I, Malcherek T, Mihailova B (2016) Exploring the potential of Raman spectroscopy for crystallochemical analyses of complex hydrous silicates: II. Tourmalines. American Mineralogist 101, 970-985
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