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Name: Gaudefroyite RRUFF ID: R050675 Ideal Chemistry: Ca4Mn3+3(BO3)3(CO3)O3 Locality: Wessels mine, Cape Province, South Africa Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 14749 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Black hexagonal stubby dipyramidal crystals Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis |
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RRUFF ID: | R050675.1 | |||||||
Sample Description: | Powder | |||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 10.6015(4)Å b: 10.6015(4)Å c: 5.8854(8)Å alpha: 90.° beta: 90.° gamma: 120.° Volume: 572.86(7)Å3 Crystal System: hexagonal |
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REFERENCES for Gaudefroyite | |
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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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Jouravsky G, Permingeat F (1964) La gaudefroyite, une nouvelle espèce minérale, Bulletin de la Société Française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie, 87, 216-229 [view file] |
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Fleischer M (1965) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 50, 805-813 [view file] |
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Hoffmann C, Armbruster T, Kunz M (1997) Structure refinement of (001) disordered gaudefroyite Ca4Mn33+[(BO3)3(CO3)O3]: Jahn-Teller-distortion in edge-sharing chains of Mn3+O6 octahedra, European Journal of Mineralogy, 9, 7-19 |
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Hassan I, Duane M J (1999) The differential thermal analysis of gaudefroyite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 37, 1363-1368 [view file] |
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Antao S M, Hassan I (2008) Gaudefroyite, Ca8Mn3+6[(BO3)6(CO3)2O6]: high-temperature crystal structure, The Canadian Mineralogist, 46, 183-193 [view file] |
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