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|   |   | Name: Gaitite RRUFF ID: R130625 Ideal Chemistry: Ca2Zn(AsO4)2·2H2O Locality: Municipio de Pitiquito, Sonora, Mexico Source: Rock Currier [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Grey to white tabular or granular crystals, associated with colorless irregular austinite and quartz Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by single crystal X-ray diffraction. | 
| Mineral Group: [ fairfieldite (16) ] | ||
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| RRUFF ID: | R130625.9 | ||||||
| Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
| Cell Refinement Output: | a: 5.801(5)Å    b: 6.883(7)Å    c: 5.490(7)Å alpha: 97.38(6)° beta: 108.98(7)° gamma: 108.02(7)° Volume: 190.59(4)Å3 Crystal System: triclinic | ||||||
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| REFERENCES for Gaitite | |
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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] | |
| Sturman B D, Dunn P J (1980) Gaitite, H2Ca2Zn(AsO4)2(OH)2, a new mineral from Tsumeb, Namibia (South West Africa), The Canadian Mineralogist, 18, 197-200 [view file] | |
| Fleischer M, Cabri L J (1981) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 66, 1274-1280 [view file] | |
| Fleck M, Kolitsch U, Hertweck B (2002) Natural and synthetic compounds with kröhnkite-type chains: review and classification, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 217, 435-443 | |
| Keller P, Lissner F, Schleid T (2004) The crystal structures of zincroselite and gaitite: Two natural polymorphs of Ca2Zn[AsO4]2·2H2O from Tsumeb, Namibia, European Journal of Mineralogy, 16, 353-359 | |
| Jambor J L, Grew E S, Roberts A C (2005) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 90, 518-522 [view file] | |
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