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Name: Görgeyite RRUFF ID: R060578 Ideal Chemistry: K2Ca5(SO4)6·H2O Locality: Inder Lake, West Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan Source: Michael Scott S100807 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Colorless to yellow tabular crystals Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction. |
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| RRUFF ID: | R060578.1 | |||||||
| Sample Description: | Powder | |||||||
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a: 17.5117(5)Å b: 6.8352(2)Å c: 18.2395(6)Å alpha: 90.° beta: 113.329(3)° gamma: 90.° Volume: 2004.73(8)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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| REFERENCES for Görgeyite | |
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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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Hayrhofer H (1953) Görgeyit, ein neues Mineral aus der Ischler Salzlagerstätte, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1953, 35-44 |
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Fleischer M (1954) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 39, 402-408 [view file] |
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Fleischer M (1955) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 40, 551-554 [view file] |
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Mukhtarova N N, Kalinin V R, Rastsvetaeva R K, Ilyukhin V V, Belov N V (1980) Crystal structure of görgeyite K2Ca5(SO4)6·(H2O), Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, 52, 102-105 [view file] |
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Smith G W, Walls R (1980) The crystal structure of görgeyite K2SO4·5CaSO4·H2O, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 151, 49-60 [view file] |
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Kloprogge J T, Hickey L, Duong L V, Martens W N, Frost R L (2004) Synthesis and characterization of K2Ca5(SO4)6·H2O, the equivalent of görgeyite, a rare evaporite mineral, American Mineralogist, 89, 266-272 [view file] |
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