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|   |   | Name: Austinite RRUFF ID: R060703 Ideal Chemistry: CaZn(AsO4)(OH) Locality: Gold Hill mine, Tooele County, Utah, USA Source: Bob Jenkins [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Radial sprays of colorless bladed crystals, associated with adamite Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis. | 
| Mineral Group: [ Adelite (19) ] | ||
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| RRUFF ID: | R060703.9 | ||||||
| Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
| Cell Refinement Output: | a: 7.501(1)Å    b: 9.028(2)Å    c: 5.923(1)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 401.1(1)Å3 Crystal System: orthorhombic | ||||||
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| REFERENCES for Austinite | |
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| American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record] | |
| 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] | |
| Staples L W (1935) Austinite, a new arsenate mineral, from Gold Hill, Utah, American Mineralogist, 20, 112-119 [view file] | |
| Richmond W E (1940) Crystal chemistry of the phosphates, arsenates and vanadates of the type A2XO4(Z), American Mineralogist, 25, 441-478 [view file] | |
| Fleischer M (1945) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 30, 548-550 [view file] | |
| Sumin de Portilla V I (1974) Infrared spectroscopic investigation of the structure of some natural arsenates and the nature of H-bonds in their structures, The Canadian Mineralogist, 12, 262-268 [view file] | |
| Jambor J L, Owens D R, Dutrizac J E (1980) Solid solution in the adelite group of arsenates, The Canadian Mineralogist, 18, 191-195 [view file] | |
| Giuseppetti G, Tadini C (1988) The crystal structure of austinite, CaZn(AsO4)(OH), from Kamareza, Laurion (Greece), Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1988, 159-166 | |
| Clark L A, Pluth J J, Steele I, Smith J V, Sutton S R (1997) Crystal structure of austinite, CaZn(AsO4)OH, Mineralogical Magazine, 61, 677-683 [view file] | |
| Martens W, Frost R L, Williams P A (2003) Molecular structure of the adelite group of minerals - a Raman spectroscopic study, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 34, 104-111 | |
| Mauro D, Biagioni C, Sejkora J, Dolníček Z (2023) Occurrence and crystal chemistry of austinite, conichalcite and zincolivenite from the Peloritani Mountains, northeastern Sicily, Italy, Mineralogical Magazine, 87, 659-669 | |
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