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Mineral contains: Goethite
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Cech F, Johan Z (1969) Identité de l´allcharite et de la goethite. Bulletin de la Société Française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie 92, 99-100
Cornell R M, Giovanoli R (1991) Transformation of akaganéite into goethite and hematite in the presence of Mn. Clays and Clay Minerals 39, 144-150
de Faria D L A, Silva S V, de Oliveira M T (1997) Raman microspectroscopy of some iron oxides and oxyhydroxides. Journal of Raman Spectroscopy 28, 873-878
Faria D L A, Lopes F N (2007) Heated goethite and natural hematite: can Raman spectroscopy be used to differentiate them?. Vibrational Spectroscopy 45, 117-121
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Gualtieri A F, Venturelli P (1999) In situ study of the goethite-hematite phase transformation by real time synchrotron powder diffraction. American Mineralogist 84, 895-904
Hamilton V E, McSween H Y, Hapke B (2005) Mineralogy of Martian atmospheric dust inferred from thermal infrared spectra of aerosols. Journal of Geophysical Research 110, E12006
Heaney P J, Oxman M J, Chen S A (2020) A structural study of size-dependent lattice variation: In situ X-ray diffraction of the growth of goethite nanoparticles from 2-line ferrihydrite. American Mineralogist 105, 652-663
Hoppe W (1940) Über die kristallstruktur von α-AlOOH (diaspor) und α-FeOOH (nadeleisenerz). Zeitschrift für Kristallographie 103, 73-89
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Kreissl S, Bolanz R, Göttlicher J, Steininger R, Tarassov, Markl G (2016) Structural incorporation of W6+ into hematite and goethite: A combined study of natural and synthetic iron oxides developed from precursor ferrihydrite and the preservation of ancient fluid compositions in hematite. American Mineralogist 101, 2701-2715
Kučerová G, Majzlan J, Lalinská-Voleková B, Radková A, Bačík P, Michňová J, Šottník P, Jurkovič L, Klimko T, Steininger R, Göttlicher J (2014) Mineralogy of neutral mine drainage in the tailings of siderite-Cu ores in eastern Slovakia. The Canadian Mineralogist 52, 779-798
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Markl G, Keim M F, Bayerl R (2019) Unusual mineral diversity in hydrothermal vein-type deposit: The Clara mine, SW Germany, as a type example. The Canadian Mineralogist 57, 427-456
Negrão L B A, Da Costa M L, Pöllmann H, Horn A (2018) An application of the Rietveld refinement method to the mineralogy of a bauxite-bearing regolith in the Lower Amazon. Mineralogical Magazine 82, 413-431
Oh S J, Cook D C, Townsend H E (1998) Characterization of iron oxides commonly formed as corrosion products on steel. Hyperfine Interactions 112, 59-65
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Schwertmann U, Murad E (1983) Effect of pH on the formation of goethite and hematite from ferrihydrite. Clays and Clay Minerals 31, 277-284
Shannon R D, Shannon R C, Medenbach O, Fischer R X (2002) Refractive index and dispersion of fluorides and oxides. Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data 31, 931-970
Sobron P, Bishop J L, Blake D F, Chen B, Rull F (2014) Natural Fe-bearing oxides and sulfates from the Rio Tinto Mars analog site: Critical assessment of VNIR reflectance spectroscopy, laser Raman spectroscopy, and XRD as mineral identification tools. American Mineralogist 99, 1199-1205
Spencer L J (1919) Mineralogical characters of turite (=turgite) and some other iron-ores from Nova Scotia. Mineralogical Magazine 18, 339-348
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Voelz J L, Arnold W A, Penn R L (2018) Redox-induced nucleation and growth of goethite on synthetic hematite nanoparticles. American Mineralogist 103, 1021-1029
Wang M, Chou I, Lu W, de Vivo B (2015) Effects of CH4 and CO2 on the sulfidization of goethite and magnetite: an in situ Raman spectroscopic study in high-pressure capillary optical cells at room temperature. European Journal of Mineralogy 27, 193-201
Wolska E, Schwertmann U (1989) Nonstoichiometric structures during dehydroxylation of goethite. Zeitschrift für Kristallographie 189, 223-237
Yang H, Lu R, Downs R T, Costin G (2006) Goethite, α–FeO(OH), from single–crystal data. Acta Crystallographica E62, i250-i252
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