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|   |   | Name: Cobaltomenite RRUFF ID: R070352 Ideal Chemistry: Co(Se4+O3)·2H2O Locality: Temple Mountain, San Rafael District (San Rafael Swell), Emery County, Utah, USA Source: Michael Scott S102060 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Purple druse of tabular crystals Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. | 
| Mineral Group: [ Cobaltomenite (4) ] | ||
| Quick search: [ All Cobaltomenite samples (2) ] | ||
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| RRUFF ID: | R070352.9 | ||||||
| Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
| Cell Refinement Output: | a: 6.4931(9)Å    b: 8.819(1)Å    c: 7.610(1)Å alpha: 90° beta: 98.890(8)° gamma: 90° Volume: 430.6(1)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic | ||||||
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| REFERENCES for Cobaltomenite | |
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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] | |
| Bertrand E (1882) Sur la molybdoménite (sélénite de plomb), la cobaltoménite (sélénite de cobalt) et l´acide sélénieux de Cacheuta (La Plata), Bulletin de la Société Minéralogique de France, 5, 90-92 [view file] | |
| Fleischer M (1963) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 48, 1178-1184 [view file] | |
| Sturman B D, Mandarino J A (1974) The ahlfeldite-cobaltomenite series, The Canadian Mineralogist, 12, 304-307 [view file] | |
| Wildner M (1990) Crystal structure refinements of synthetic cobaltomenite (CoSeO3·2H2O) and ahlfeldite (NiSeO3·2H2O), Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1990, 353-362 | |
| Charykova M V, Krivovichev V G, Lelet M I, Yakovenko O S, Suleimanov E V, Depmeier W, Semenova V V, Zorina M L (2014) A calorimetric and thermodynamic investigation of the synthetic analogs of cobaltomenite, CoSeO3·2H2O, and ahlfeldite, NiSeO3·2H2O, American Mineralogist, 99, 742-748 | |
| Hazen R M, Hystad G, Golden J J, Hummer D R, Liu C, Downs R T, Morrison S M, Ralph J, Grew E S (2017) Cobalt mineral ecology, American Mineralogist, 102, 108-116 [view file] | |
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