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Name: Phosphoferrite RRUFF ID: R130690 Ideal Chemistry: Fe2+3(PO4)2·3H2O Locality: Hagendorf, Waidhaus, Vohenstrauß, Oberpfälzer Wald, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany Source: Rob Lavinsky [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Euhedral dark-grey zoned crystals with striations. Interior is colorless, clear, and exterior is dark brown. This sample represents the interior, the exterior is R140624. Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis. |
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Mineral Group: [ Reddingite (9) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Phosphoferrite samples (2) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R130690.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal fragment of the interior, clear part of the crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 9.4884(9)Å b: 10.089(1)Å c: 8.692(1)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 832.1(1)Å3 Crystal System: orthorhombic |
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REFERENCES for Phosphoferrite | |
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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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Laubmann H, Steinmetz H (1920) Phosphatführende Pegmatite des Oberpfälzer und Bayerischen Waldes, Zeitschrift für Krystallographie und Mineralogie, 55, 523-586 [view file] |
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Wherry E T, Gordon S G, Foshag W F (1921) New minerals, American Mineralogist, 6, 63-68 [view file] |
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Steinmetz H (1926) Phosphophyllit und Reddingit von Hagendorf, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 64, 405-412 [view file] |
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Foshag W F (1928) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 13, 32-34 [view file] |
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Tennyson C (1954) Phosphoferrit und reddingit von Hagendorf, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Abhandlungen, 87, 185-217 |
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Moore P B (1971) The Fe2+3(H2O)n(PO4)2 homologous series: Crystal-chemical relationships and oxidized equivalents, American Mineralogist, 56, 1-17 [view file] |
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Moore P B, Araki T (1976) A mixed-valence solid-solution series: Crystal structures of phosphoferrite, FeII3(H2O)3[PO4]2, and kryzhanovskite, FeIII3(OH)3[PO4]2, Inorganic Chemistry, 15, 316-321 |
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Mattievich E and Danon J (1977) Hydrothermal synthesis and Mössbauer studies of ferrous phosphates of the homologous series Fe32+(PO4)2(H2O)n, Journal of Inorganic and Nuclear Chemistry, 39, 569-580 |
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Moore P B, Araki T, Kampf A R (1980) Nomenclature of the phosphoferrite structure type: refinements of landesite and kryzhanovskite, Mineralogical Magazine, 43, 789-795 [view file] |
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Moreira L F, Diehl L M A, Torres-Tapia E C, Domingues P H and Mattievich E (1994) Magnetic studies on synthetic phosphoferrite Fe32+(H2O)3(PO4)2, Hyperfine Interactions, 83, 193-197 |
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Łodziński M, Sitarz M (2009) Chemical and spectroscopic characterization of some phosphate accessory minerals from pegmatites of the Sowie Góry Mts, SW Poland, Journal of Molecular Structure, 924-926, 442-447 |
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Birch W D (2018) Minerals in the arrojadite, alluaudite and jahnsite-whiteite groups from the Mount Wills pegmatite field, Victoria, Australia, European Journal of Mineralogy, 30, 635-645 |
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