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Name: Lammerite RRUFF ID: R060715 Ideal Chemistry: Cu3(AsO4)2 Locality: Guanaco, Antofagasta Province, Chile Source: Bob Jenkins [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Dark green tabular crystals associated with blue lavendulan, R060716, white quartz and barite Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis. |
Quick search: [ All Lammerite samples (2) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R060715.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 5.077(1)Å b: 11.612(2)Å c: 5.396(1)Å alpha: 90° beta: 111.86(1)° gamma: 90° Volume: 295.22(7)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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REFERENCES for Lammerite | |
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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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Keller P, Paar W H, Dunn P J (1981) Lammerit, Cu3[AsO4]2, ein neues Mineral von Laurani, Bolivien, Tschermaks Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen, 28, 157-164 |
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Fleischer M, Burns R G, Cabri L J, Francis C A, Pabst A (1982) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 67, 413-418 [view file] |
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Hawthorne F C, Dunn P J, Grice J D, Puziewicz J, Shigley J E (1986) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 71, 845-847 [view file] |
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Hawthorne F C (1986) Lammerite, Cu3(AsO4)2, a modulated close-packed structure, American Mineralogist, 71, 206-209 [view file] |
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Starova G L, Vergasova L P, Filatov S K, Britvin S N. Ananyev V V (2011) Lammerite-β, Cu3(AsO4)2- a new mineral from fumaroles of the Great Fissure Tolbachic eruption (Kamchatka, Russia), Zapiski Rossiiskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchetstva, 140, issue 5 46-51 [view file] |
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Pekov I V, Koshlykova N N, Zubkova N V, Lykova I S, Britvin S N, Yapaskurt V O, Agakhanov A A, Shchipalkina N V, Turchkova A G, Sidorov E G (2018) Fumarolic arsenates - a special type of arsenic mineralization, European Journal of Mineralogy, 30, 305-322 |
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