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Name: Clinosafflorite RRUFF ID: R130389 Ideal Chemistry: CoAs2 Locality: Ahrbar, Bou Azzer, Morocco Source: Rock Currier [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Aggregates of metallic platy crystals, associated with arsenopyrite and skutterudite. Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. |
Mineral Group: [ Lollingite (8) ] |
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BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS | ||||||||||||
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POWDER DIFFRACTION | |||||||
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RRUFF ID: | R130389.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 5.926(4)Å b: 5.866(4)Å c: 5.942(5)Å alpha: 90° beta: 116.85(4)° gamma: 90° Volume: 184.3(1)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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REFERENCES for Clinosafflorite | |
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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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Darmon R, Wintenberger M (1966) Structure cristalline de CoAs2, Bulletin de la Société Française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie, 89, 213-215 [view file] |
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Radcliffe D, Berry L G (1971) Clinosafflorite: A monoclinic polymorph of safflorite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 10, 877-881 [view file] |
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Fleischer M (1972) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 57, 1552-1561 [view file] |
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Burke E A J, Zakrzewski M A (1983) A cobaltbearing sulfide arsenide assemblage from the Nord mine (Finnshytteberg), Sweden: A new occurrence of clinosafflorite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 21, 129-136 [view file] |
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Ondru P, Veselovský F, Gabaová A, Hlouek J, rein V, Vavrín I, Skála R, Sejkora J, Drábek M (2003) Primary minerals of the Jáchymov ore district, Journal of the Czech Geological Society, 48, 19-147 [view file] |
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Hazen R M, Hystad G, Golden J J, Hummer D R, Liu C, Downs R T, Morrison S M, Ralph J, Grew E S (2017) Cobalt mineral ecology, American Mineralogist, 102, 108-116 [view file] |
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