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Name: Kamchatkite RRUFF ID: R070039 Ideal Chemistry: KCu3O(SO4)2Cl Locality: Great Tolbachik Eruption (1975-6), Tolbachik Volcano, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia Source: Michael Scott S105068 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Light apple green poorly formed crystals, co-type material Status: The identification of this mineral is not yet confirmed. |
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REFERENCES for Kamchatkite | |
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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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Vergasova L P, Filatov S K, Serafimova Y K, Varaksina T V (1988) Kamchatkite KCu3OCl(SO4)2 a new mineral from volcanic sublimates, Zapiski Vsesoyuznogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva, 117, issue 4 459-461 [view file] |
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Jambor J L, Puziewicz J (1990) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 75, 1209-1216 [view file] |
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Varaksina T V, Fundamensky V S, Filatov S K, Vergasova L P (1990) The crystal structure of kamchatkite, a new naturally occuring oxychloride sulphate of potassium and copper, Mineralogical Magazine, 54, 613-616 [view file] |
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Jambor J L, Grew E S (1992) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 77, 207-213 [view file] |
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Siidra O I, Nazarchuk E V, Zaitsev A N, Lukina E A, Avdontseva E Y, Vergasova L P, Vlasenko N S, Filatov S K, Turner R, Karpov G A (2017) Copper oxosulphates from fumaroles of Tolbachik volcano: puninite, Na2Cu3O(SO4)3- a new mineral species and structure refinements of kamchatkite and alumoklyuchevskite, European Journal of Mineralogy, 29, 499-510, 1089 [view file] |
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Gagné O C, Belakovskiy D I, Cámara F (2018) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 103, 657-663 [view file] |
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Nazarchuk E V, Siidra O I, Filatov S K, Charkin D O, Zhdanova L R (2023) Thermal expansion of anhydrous copper sulfate minerals determined by single crystal X‑ray diffraction: chalcocyanite CuSO4, dolerophanite Cu2OSO4 and kamchatkite KCu3O(SO4)2Cl, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 50, 11 |
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