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Name: Fornacite RRUFF ID: R060986 Ideal Chemistry: CuPb2(CrO4)(AsO4)(OH) Locality: Tombstone, Arizona, USA Source: Bob Jenkins [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Deep olive-green tabular plates on calcite crystals Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis. |
Mineral Group: [ Fornacite (6) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Fornacite samples (2) ] |
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RAMAN SPECTRUM | ||||||||||||
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BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS | ||||||||||||
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POWDER DIFFRACTION | |||||||
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RRUFF ID: | R060986.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 8.088(3)Å b: 5.929(2)Å c: 17.568(3)Å alpha: 90° beta: 109.99(1)° gamma: 90° Volume: 791.7(3)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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REFERENCES for Fornacite | |
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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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Lacroix A (1915) Note préliminaire sur une novelle espèce minérale (furnacite), provenant du Moyen Congo (Afrique equatoriale française), Bulletin de la Société Française de Minéralogie, 38, 198-200 [view file] |
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Lacroix A (1916) Erratum concernant une nouvelle espèce minérale du Congo, Bulletin de la Société Française de Minéralogie, 39, 84-84 [view file] |
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Fleischer M (1964) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 49, 439-448 [view file] |
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Cocco G, Fanfani L, Zanazzi P F (1967) The crystal structure of fornacite, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 124, 385-397 [view file] |
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Fanfani L, Zanazzi P F (1967) Structural similarities of some secondary lead minerals, Mineralogical Magazine, 36, 522-529 [view file] |
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Cesbron F, Williams S A (1980) Iranite-hémihédrite, bellite, phoenicochroite, vauquelinite et fornacite: synthèse et nouvelles données, Bulletin de Minéralogie, 103, 469-477 [view file] |
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Frost R L (2004) Raman microscopy of selected chromate minerals, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 35, 153-158 |
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Ksenofontov D A, Kabalov Y K, Pekov I V, Zubkova N V (2014) Refinement of the crystal structure of fornacite using the Rietveld method, Doklady Earth Sciences, 456, 520-523 |
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