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Name: Amesite RRUFF ID: R070116 Ideal Chemistry: Mg2Al(AlSiO5)(OH)4 Locality: Saranovskii Mine (Saranovskoye), Saranovskaya (Sarany; Saranje) Village, Gorozavod area, Permskaya Oblast', Urais Region, Russia Source: Michael Scott S100416 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Purple thin micaceous crystals, not a standard polytype, see Wiewiora et al (Am Min 76 (1991) 647-652) Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis. |
Mineral Groups: [ Clay (86) ] [ serpentine (12) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Amesite samples (2) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R070116.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 5.296(5)Å b: 9.17(1)Å c: 14.37(1)Å alpha: 102.33(5)° beta: 90.51(6)° gamma: 90.01(5)° Volume: 682.8(4)Å3 Crystal System: triclinic |
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REFERENCES for Amesite | |
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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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Shepard C U (1876) Order XI. Talcite. Amesine, in Catalogue of minerals found within about 75 miles of Amherst College, Ms Amherst 4-4 [view file] |
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Steadman R, Nuttall P M (1962) The crystal structure of amesite, Acta Crystallographica, 15, 510-511 |
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Anderson C S, Bailey S W (1981) A new cation ordering pattern in amesite-2H2, American Mineralogist, 66, 185-195 [view file] |
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Taner M F, Laurent R (1984) Iron-rich amesite from the Lake Asbestos mine, Black Lake, Quebec, The Canadian Mineralogist, 22, 437-442 [view file] |
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Bailey S W (1988) Structures and compositions of other trioctahedral 1:1 phyllosilicates, Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, 19, 169-188 |
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Wiewióra A (1990) Crystallochemical classifications of phyllosilicates based on the unified system of projection of chemical composition: III. The serpentine-kaolin group, Clay Minerals, 25, 93-98 [view file] |
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Wiewióra A, Rausell-Colom J A, García-González T (1991) The crystal structure of amesite from Mount Sobotka: A nonstandard polytype, American Mineralogist, 76, 647-652 [view file] |
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Zheng H, Bailey S W, (1997) Refinement of an amesite-2H1 polytype from Postmasburg, South Africa, Clays and Clay Minerals, 45, 301-310 |
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Bobos I, Noronha F, Mateus A (2018) Fe-, Fe,Mn- and Fe,Mg-chlorite: a genetic linkage to W, (Cu,Mo) mineralization in the magmatic-hydrothermal system at Borralha, northern Portugal, Mineralogical Magazine, 82, S259-S279 |
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