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Name: Shattuckite RRUFF ID: R050133 Ideal Chemistry: Cu5(SiO3)4(OH)2 Locality: Ajo, Pima County, Arizona, USA Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 5524 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Aggregate of blue flattened grains Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis |
Quick search: [ All Shattuckite samples (3) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R050133.1 | |||||||
Sample Description: | Powder | |||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 9.8994(8)Å b: 19.845(5)Å c: 5.382(1)Å alpha: 90.° beta: 90.° gamma: 90.° Volume: 1057.3(3)Å3 Crystal System: orthorhombic |
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REFERENCES for Shattuckite | |
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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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Schaller W T (1915) Four new minerals, Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 5, 7-7 [view file] |
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Zambonini M F (1918) Minéralogie. - Sur l'identité de la shattuckite et de la planchéite, Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences, 166, 495-497 [view file] |
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Schaller W T (1919) Plancheite and shattuckite, copper silicates, are not the same mineral, Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 9, 131-134 [view file] |
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Ming-Shan S (1961) Differential thermal analysis of shattuckite, American Mineralogist, 46, 67-77 [view file] |
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Newberg D W (1964) X-ray study of shattuckite, American Mineralogist, 49, 1234-1239 [view file] |
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Evans H T, Mrose M E (1966) Shattuckite and planchéite: a crystal chemical study, Science, 154, 506-507 |
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Mrose M E, Vlisidis A C (1966) Abstracts of papers: proof of the formula of shattuckite, Cu5(SiO2)4(OH)2, American Mineralogist, 51, 266-267 [view file] |
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Fleischer M (1967) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 52, 559-564 [view file] |
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Le Bihan M T (1967) Contribution à l'étude des silicates de cuivre. Différenciation de la shattuckite et de la planchéite. Structure atomique de la shattuckite, Bulletin de la Société Française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie, 90, 3-7 [view file] |
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Burragato F, Grubessi O (1973) Mineralogia. - Shattuckite e plancheite di Reneville (Congo), Accademia Nazionale del Lincei, Classe di Scienze Fische, Matematiche e Naturali, Rendiconti, Roma, 55, 726-735 |
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Evans H T, Mrose M E (1977) The crystal chemistry of the hydrous copper silicates, shattuckite and planchéite, American Mineralogist, 62, 491-502 [view file] |
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Sarma K B N, Reddy B J, Lakshman S V J (1982) Absorption spectra of Cu2+ in shattuckite and plancheite, Physics Letters, 92A, 305-308 |
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Frost R L, Xi Y (2012) Raman spectroscopic study of the mineral shattuckite Cu5(SiO3)4(OH)2, Spectrochimica Acta Part A-Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 87, 241-244 |
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Stebbins F J (2017) Toward the wider application of 29Si NMR spectroscopy to paramagnetic transition metal silicate minerals: copper (II) silicates, American Mineralogist, 102, 2406-2414 |
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