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|   |   | Name: Wolfeite RRUFF ID: R060545 Ideal Chemistry: Fe2+2(PO4)(OH) Locality: Big Fish River, Yukon Territory, Canada Source: Michael Scott S100274 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Orange-brown fragment Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis. | 
| Mineral Group: [ Wagnerite (7) ] | ||
| Quick search: [ All Wolfeite samples (3) ] | ||
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| RRUFF ID: | R060545.9 | ||||||
| Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
| Cell Refinement Output: | a: 12.228(5)Å    b: 13.119(5)Å    c: 9.720(4)Å alpha: 90° beta: 108.71(1)° gamma: 90° Volume: 1476.9(4)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic | ||||||
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| REFERENCES for Wolfeite | |
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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] | |
| Frondel C (1949) Wolfeite, xanthoxenite, and whitlockite from the Palermo mine, New Hampshire, American Mineralogist, 34, 692-705 [view file] | |
| Clark A M, Couper A G (1979) End-member triploidite from Cornwall, Mineralogical Magazine, 43, 179-180 [view file] | |
| Antenucci D, Fontan F, Fransolet A M (1989) X-ray powder diffraction for wolfeite: (Fe0.59Mn0.40Mg0.01)2PO4(OH), Powder Diffraction, 4, 34-35 [view file] | |
| Kolitsch U (2003) Mg-rich wolfeite, (FeII,Mg)2(PO4)(OH): structure refinement and Raman spectroscopic data, Acta Crystallographica, E59, 125-128 | |
| Hatert F (2007) FeII2(PO4)(OH), a synthetic analogue of wolfeite, Acta Crystallographica, C63, i119-i121 | |
| Łodziński M, Sitarz M (2009) Chemical and spectroscopic characterization of some phosphate accessory minerals from pegmatites of the Sowie Góry Mts, SW Poland, Journal of Molecular Structure, 924-926, 442-447 | |
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