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Name: Genthelvite RRUFF ID: R080134 Ideal Chemistry: Be3Zn4(SiO4)3S Locality: Rockport, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA Source: James Shigley [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Massive pink, exhibiting greasy luster, associated with albite Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by single crystal X-ray diffraction. |
Mineral Groups: [ cancrinite-sodalite (37) ] [ sodalite (24) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R080134.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 8.150(1)Å b: 8.150(1)Å c: 8.150(1)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 541.25(4)Å3 Crystal System: cubic |
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REFERENCES for Genthelvite | |
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American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record] |
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Burt D M (1988) Stability of genthelvite, Zn4(BeSiO4)3S: an exercise in chalcophilicity using exchange operators, American Mineralogist, 73, 1384-1394 [view file] |
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Finch A A (1990) Genthelvite and willemite, zinc minerals associated with alkaline magmatism from the Motzfeldt centre, South Greenland, Mineralogical Magazine, 54, 407-412 [view file] |
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Hettmann K, Wenzel T, Marks M, Markl G (2012) The sulfur speciation in S-bearing minerals: New constraints by a combination of electron microprobe analysis and DFT calculations with special reference to sodalite-group minerals, American Mineralogist, 97, 1653-1661 [view file] |
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Zito G, Hanson S L (2017) Genthelvite overgrowths on danalite cores from a pegmatite miarolitic cavity in Cheyenne Canyon, El Paso County, Colorado, The Canadian Mineralogist, 55, 195-206 |
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