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|   |   | Name: Inesite RRUFF ID: R070456 Ideal Chemistry: Ca2Mn2+7Si10O28(OH)2·5H2O Locality: Fengjiashan mine (Daye Copper mine), Daye County, Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province, China Source: Michael Scott S101923 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Fan-shaped cluster of pink laths associated with quartz and brown platy hubeite Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis. | 
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| RRUFF ID: | R070456.9 | ||||||
| Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
| Cell Refinement Output: | a: 8.868(2)Å    b: 9.264(1)Å    c: 11.972(3)Å alpha: 88.208(9)° beta: 131.919(7)° gamma: 96.604(8)° Volume: 725.6(6)Å3 Crystal System: triclinic | ||||||
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| REFERENCES for Inesite | |
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| American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record] | |
| 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] | |
| Schneider A (1887) Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft. Protokoll der November - Sitzung. Über neue Manganerze aus dem Dillenburgischen, Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft, 39, 829-834 [view file] | |
| Glass J J, Schaller W T (1939) Inesite, American Mineralogist, 24, 26-39 [view file] | |
| Welin E (1968) Notes on the mineralogy of Sweden 6. X-ray powder data for minerals from Långban and the related mineral deposits of Central Sweden, Arkiv för Mineralogi och Geologi, 4, 499-541 | |
| Wan C, Ghose S (1978) Inesite, a hydrated calcium manganese silicate with five-tetrahedral-repeat double chains, American Mineralogist, 63, 563-571 [view file] | |
| 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 [view file] | |
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