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Name: Carpathite RRUFF ID: R060162 Ideal Chemistry: C24H12 Locality: Picacho mine, San Benito County, California, USA Source: Marcus Origlieri Owner: RRUFF Description: Colorless to pale yellow splintery fractured aggregates associated with cinnabar on quartz Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. |
| Quick search: [ All Carpathite samples (2) ] | ||
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| RRUFF ID: | R060162.9 | ||||||
| Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
| Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 16.06(1)Å b: 4.692(3)Å c: 10.069(8)Å alpha: 90° beta: 110.88(3)° gamma: 90° Volume: 709(1)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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| REFERENCES for Carpathite | |
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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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Piotrovsky G L (1955) Karpatite - a new organic mineral from Transcarpathia, Mineralogicheskii Sbornik, 9, 120-127 [view file] |
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Fleischer M (1957) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 42, 117-124 [view file] |
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Fawcett J K, Trotter J (1966) The crystal and molecular structure of coronene, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, A289, 366-376 |
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Fleischer M (1969) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 54, 326-330 [view file] |
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International Mineralogical Association (1971) International Mineralogical Association: Commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Magazine, 38, 102-105 [view file] |
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Echigo T, Kimata M, Maruoka T (2007) Crystal-chemical and carbon-isotopic characteristics of karpatite (C24H12) from the Picacho Peak area, San Benito County, California: evidences for the hydrothermal formation, American Mineralogist, 92, 1262-1269 [view file] |
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