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Name: Cornwallite RRUFF ID: R110146 Ideal Chemistry: Cu5(AsO4)2(OH)4 Locality: Arkaroola Station, flinders Ranges, South Australia, Australia Source: The University of Arizona Mineral Museum 17398 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Dark green tabular crystals on quartz, associated with lighter green elongated olivenite Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. |
| Quick search: [ All Cornwallite samples (2) ] | ||
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| RRUFF ID: | R110146.9 | ||||||
| Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
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a: 4.585(2)Å b: 5.760(3)Å c: 17.333(9)Å alpha: 90° beta: 91.89(2)° gamma: 90° Volume: 457.5(2)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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| REFERENCES for Cornwallite | |
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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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Zippe F X M (1847) Über den Cornwallit, eine neue Species des Mineralreichs, Abhandlungen der Königlichen Böhmischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, 4, 649-654 [view file] |
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Church A H (1868) Chemical researches on new and rare Cornish minerals. V. Cornwallite, The Journal of the Chemical Society of London, 21, 276-279 [view file] |
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Berry L G (1948) Tyrolite, higginsite and cornwallite, American Mineralogist, 33, 193-193 [view file] |
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Berry L G (1951) Observations on chonichalcite, cornwallite, euchroite liroconite and olivenite, American Mineralogist, 36, 484-503 [view file] |
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Arlt T, Armbruster T (1999) Single-crystal X-ray structure refinement of cornwallite, Cu5(AsO4)2(OH)4: A comparison with its polymorph cornubite and the PO4- analogue pseudo malachite, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1999, 468-480 |
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Frost R L, Martens W N, Williams P A (2002) Raman spectroscopy of the phase-related basic copper arsenate minerals olivenite, cornwallite, cornubite and clinoclase, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 33, 475-484 [link] |
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Martens W N, Frost R L, Kloprogge J T, Williams P A (2003) The basic copper arsenate minerals olivenite, cornubite, cornwallite, and clinoclase: An infrared emission and Raman spectroscopic study, American Mineralogist, 88, 501-508 [view file] |
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Ciesielczuk J, Janeczek J, Dulski M, Krzykawski T (2016) Pseudomalachite-cornwallite and kipushite-philipsburgite solid solutions: chemical composition and Raman spectroscopy, European Journal of Mineralogy, 28, 555-569 |
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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 |
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