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Name: Zwieselite RRUFF ID: R050279 Ideal Chemistry: Fe2+2(PO4)F Locality: Cornelia mine, Hagendorf, Bavaria, Germany Source: Marcus Origlieri Owner: RRUFF Description: Brown massive associated with bluish-gray triphylite R050366 Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis |
Mineral Group: [ Triplite (7) ] |
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POWDER DIFFRACTION | ||||||||
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RRUFF ID: | R050279.1 | |||||||
Sample Description: | Powder | |||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 12.071(2)Å b: 10.004(2)Å c: 6.4968(7)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 106.98(2)° Volume: 750.3(2)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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REFERENCES for Zwieselite | |
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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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Breithaupt J F A (1841) Phyletites ferrosus oder Zwiselit, in Vollständige Charakteristik des Mineral-Systems 2nd Edition Arnoldische Buchhandlung Dresden and Leipzig 299-300 [view file] |
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Yakubovich O V, Simonov M A, Matvienko E N, Belov N V (1978) The crystal structure of the synthetic finite Fe-term of the series triplite - zwieselite Fe2(PO4)F, Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, 238, 576-579 [view file] |
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Roda-Robles E, Pesquera A, García de Madinabeitia S , Gil Ibarguchi J, Nizamoff J, Simmons W, Falster A, Galliski M A (2014) On the geochemical character of primary Fe-Mn phosphates belonging to the triphylite-lithiophilite, graftonite-beusite, and triplite-zwieselite series: first results and implications for pegmatite petrogenesis, The Canadian Mineralogist, 52, 321-335 [view file] |
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Miyawaki R, Hatert F, Pasero M, Mills S J (2019) IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) Newsletter 50. New minerals and nomenclature modifications approved in 2019, Mineralogical Magazine, 83, 615-620 [view file] |
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