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Name: Whitmoreite RRUFF ID: R110175 Ideal Chemistry: Fe2+Fe3+2(PO4)2(OH)2·4H2O Locality: Palermo #1 mine, North Groton, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA Source: Donald Doell [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Radial sprays of brown prismatic crystals associated with jahnsite, childrenite, and quartz Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. |
Mineral Group: [ Arthurite (7) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R110175.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 9.966(5)Å b: 9.744(4)Å c: 5.457(2)Å alpha: 90° beta: 93.89(2)° gamma: 90° Volume: 528.7(5)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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REFERENCES for Whitmoreite | |
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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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Moore P B, Kampf A R, Irving A J (1974) Whitmoreite, Fe2+Fe3+2(OH)2(H2O)4[PO4]2, a new species: its description and atomic arrangement, American Mineralogist, 59, 900-905 [view file] |
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Frost R L, Duong L, Martens W (2003) Molecular assembly in secondary minerals - Raman spectroscopy of the arthurite group species arthurite and whitmoreite, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 2003, 223-240 |
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Birch W D (2018) Minerals in the arrojadite, alluaudite and jahnsite-whiteite groups from the Mount Wills pegmatite field, Victoria, Australia, European Journal of Mineralogy, 30, 635-645 |
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