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|   |   | Name: Greifensteinite RRUFF ID: R070613 Ideal Chemistry: Ca2Be4Fe2+5(PO4)6(OH)4·6H2O Locality: Tip Top mine, Custer County, South Dakota, USA Source: Dakota Matrix Minerals [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Darker orange-brown blebs in pale salmon colored montgomeryite, associated with tiptopite (R070609) Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by single crystal X-ray diffraction. | 
| Mineral Group: [ roscherite (9) ] | ||
| Quick search: [ All Greifensteinite samples (3) ] | ||
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| RRUFF ID: | R070613.9 | ||||||
| Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
| Cell Refinement Output: | a: 15.724(9)Å    b: 11.758(8)Å    c: 6.584(5)Å alpha: 90° beta: 94.96(2)° gamma: 90° Volume: 1213(1)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic | ||||||
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| REFERENCES for Greifensteinite | |
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| American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record] | |
| Chukanov N V, Möckel S, Rastsvetaeva R K, Zadov A E (2002) Greifensteinite Ca2Be4(Fe2+,Mn)5(PO4)6(OH)4·6H2O  a new mineral from Greifenstein, Saxony, Zapiski Vserossijskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva, 131, issue 4 47-52 [view file] | |
| Chukanov N V, Pekov I V, Zadov A E, Azarova Y V, Semenov E I (2002) Kuzmenkoite-Zn, K2Zn(Ti,Nb)4(Si4O12)2(OH,O)4·6-8H2O, a new mineral of the labuntsovite group from Lovozero Massif, Kola Peninsula, Zapiski Vserossijskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva, 131, issue 2 45-50 [view file] | |
| Rastsvetaeva R K, Gurbanova O A, Chukanov N V (2002) Crystal structure of greifensteinite Ca2Be4(Fe2+,Mn)5(PO4)6(OH)4·6H2O, Doklady Chemistry, 383, 78-81 | |
| Grew E S, Pertsev N N, Roberts A C (2003) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 88, 1175-1180 [view file] | |
| Barinova A V, Rastsvetaeva R K, Chukanov N V, Pietraszko A (2004) Refinement of the crystal structure of Zn-containing greifensteinite, Crystallography Reports, 49, 942-945 [view file] | |
| Mandarino J A (2004) New minerals, The Canadian Mineralogist, 42, 215-234 [view file] | |
| Rastsvetaeva R K, Barinova A V, Chukanov N V, Pietraszko A (2004) Crystal structure of a magnesium-rich triclinic analogue of greifensteinite, Doklady Chemistry, 398, 191-195 [view file] | |
| Atencio D, Coutinho J M V, Menezes L A D (2005) Roscherite-group minerals from Brazil, Axis, 1, Mineralogical Record www.MineralogicalRecord.com 1-18 | |
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