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Name: Fedotovite RRUFF ID: R070470 Ideal Chemistry: K2Cu3O(SO4)3 Locality: Great Fissure (Main Fracture) eruption, Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka Oblast', Far-Eastern Region, Russia Source: Michael Scott S105017 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Emerald-green prismatic crystals Status: The identification of this mineral is not yet confirmed. |
Mineral Group: [ Euchlorine (2) ] |
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REFERENCES for Fedotovite | |
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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, Starova G L (1988) Fedotovite K2Cu3O(SO4)3 - a new mineral from volcanic sublimates, Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, 299, 961-964 [view file] |
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Jambor J L, Grew E S (1990) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 75, 240-246 [view file] |
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Starova G L, Filatov S K, Fundamenskii V S, Vergasova L P (1991) The crystal structure of fedotovite, K2Cu3O(SO4)3, Mineralogical Magazine, 55, 613-616 [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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Shablinskii A P, Filatov S K, Biryukov Y P, Yuriev A A, Vergasova L P (2023) Thermal expansion of fedotovite K2Cu3O(SO4)3 and piypite K4Cu4O(SO4)4·(Na,Cu)Cl, Glass Physics and Chemistry, 49, 386-393 |
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