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Mineral contains: Ruizite
Dunn P J, Gobel V, Grice J D, Puziewicz J, Shigley J E, Vanko D A, Zilczer J (1985) New mineral names. American Mineralogist 70, 436-441
Fendrich K V, Downs R T, Origlieri M J (2016) Redetermination of ruizite, Ca2Mn3+2[Si4O11(OH)](OH)2·2H2O. Acta Crystallographica E72, 959-963
Fleischer M, Pabst A, White J S (1978) New mineral names. American Mineralogist 63, 793-796
Hîrtopanu P, Dumitras D G, Marincea Ş, Călin N (2022) Inesite, hubeite, ruizite, apophyllite, and manganoan ilvaite from Cavnic, Eastern Carpathians, Romania. Carpathian Journal of Earth and Environmental Sciences 17, 387-400
Hawthorne F C (1984) The crystal structure of ruizite, a sorosilicate with an [Si4O13] cluster. Tschermaks Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen 33, 135-146
Moore P B, Shen J, Araki T (1985) Crystal chemistry of the 2∞[M3+2Φ2(TO4)2] sheet: structural principles and crystal structures of ruizite, macfallite and orientite. American Mineralogist 70, 171-181
Williams S A, Duggan M (1977) Ruizite, a new silicate mineral from Christmas, Arizona. Mineralogical Magazine 41, 429-432
Wilson W E, Dunn P J (1978) The Kalahari manganese field. The Mineralogical Record 9, 137-153
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