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Name: Aravaipaite RRUFF ID: R100004 Ideal Chemistry: Pb3AlF9·H2O Locality: Grand Reef mine, Klondyke, Aravaipa District, Graham County, Arizona, USA Source: William W. Pinch [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Colorless thin plates. Same sample as used in Kampf (2001) and Kampf et al (2011). Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. |
Mineral Group: [ Aravaipaite (3) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Aravaipaite samples (2) ] |
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BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS | ||||||||||||
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POWDER DIFFRACTION | |||||||
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RRUFF ID: | R100004.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 5.654(1)Å b: 5.681(1)Å c: 12.703(2)Å alpha: 98.75(3)° beta: 93.99(3)° gamma: 90.75(3)° Volume: 415.0(2)Å3 Crystal System: triclinic |
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REFERENCES for Aravaipaite | |
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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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Kampf A R, Dunn P J, Foord E E (1989) Grandreefite, pseudograndreefite, laurelite, and aravaipaite: Four new minerals from the Grand Reef mine, Graham County, Arizona, American Mineralogist, 74, 927-933 [view file] |
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Kampf A R (2001) The crystal structure of aravaipaite, American Mineralogist, 86, 927-931 [view file] |
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Kampf A R, Yang H, Downs R T, Pinch W W (2011) The crystal structures and Raman spectra of aravaipaite and calcioaravaipaite, American Mineralogist, 96, 402-407 [view file] |
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