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|   |   | Name: Mottramite RRUFF ID: R120112 Ideal Chemistry: PbCu(VO4)(OH) Locality: Copperopolis, Yavapai County, Arizona, USA Source: Joe Ruiz [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Radial sprays of yellow transparent needles, variety duhamelite; associated with goethite Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by single crystal X-ray diffraction. | 
| Mineral Group: [ descloizite (10) ] | ||
| Quick search: [ All Mottramite samples (3) ] | ||
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| RRUFF ID: | R120112.9 | ||||||
| Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
| Cell Refinement Output: | a: 7.493(6)Å    b: 5.883(4)Å    c: 9.652(6)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 425.4(3)Å3 Crystal System: orthorhombic | ||||||
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| REFERENCES for Mottramite | |
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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] | |
| Roscoe H E (1876) On two new vanadiium minerals, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 25, 109-112 [view file] | |
| Williams S A (1981) Duhamelite, Cu4Pb2Bi(VO4)4(OH)3·8H2O, a new Arizona mineral, Mineralogical Magazine, 44, 151-152 [view file] | |
| Cooper M A, Hawthorne F C (1995) The crystal structure of mottramite, and the nature of Cu  Zn solid solution in the mottramite-descloizite serires, The Canadian Mineralogist, 33, 1119-1124 [view file] | |
| Frost R L, Williams P A, Kloprogge J T, Leverett P (2001) Raman spectroscopy of descloizite and mottramite at 298 and 77 K, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 32, 906-911 | |
| Grice J D, Ferraris G (2003) New minerals approved in 2002 and nomenclature modifications approved in 1998-2002 by the Commission on the New Minerals and Mineral Names, International Mineralogical Association, The Canadian Mineralogist, 41, 795-802 [view file] | |
| Krause W, Kolitsch U, Bernhardt H J, Effenberger H (2003) Duhamelite discredited, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 2003, 75-96 | |
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