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Mineral contains: Galaxite
Beard J S, Tracy R J (2002) Spinels and other oxides in Mn-rich rocks from the Hutter Mine, Pittsylvania County, Virginia, U.S.A.: implications for miscibility and solvus relations among jacobsite, galaxite, and magnetite. American Mineralogist 87, 690-698
Bosi F, Biagioni C, Pasero M (2019) Nomenclature and classification of the spinel supergroup. European Journal of Mineralogy 31, 183-192
Essene E J, Peacor D R (1983) Crystal chemistry and petrology of coexisting galaxite and jacobsite and other spinel solutions and solvi. American Mineralogist 68, 449-455
Hålenius U, Bosi F, Skogby H (2007) Galaxite, MnAl2O4, a spectroscopic standard for tetrahedrally coordinated Mn2+ in oxygen-based mineral structures. American Mineralogist 92, 1225-1231
Lucchesi S, Russo U, Della Giusta A (1997) Crystal chemistry and cation distribution in some Mn-rich natural and synthetic spinels. European Journal of Mineralogy 9, 31-42
Ross C S, Kerr P F (1932) The manganese minerals of a vein near Bald Knob, North Carolina. American Mineralogist 17, 1-18
Stokes T N, Bromiley G D, Diego Gatta G, Rotiroti N, Potts N J, Saunders K (2018) Cation distribution and valence in synthetic Al-Mn-O and Fe-Mn-O spinels under varying fO2 conditions. Mineralogical Magazine 82, 975-992