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Name: Langite RRUFF ID: R060090 Ideal Chemistry: Cu4(SO4)(OH)6·2H2O Locality: Allihies mine, County Cork, Ireland Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 12559 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Blue skeletal prismatic crystals in snowflake-like groupings, associated with brochantite Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis |
Quick search: [ All Langite samples (3) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R060090.1 | |||||||
Sample Description: | Powder | |||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 7.1294(9)Å b: 6.0334(6)Å c: 11.2311(6)Å alpha: 90° beta: 89.99(2)° gamma: 90° Volume: 483.10(7)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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REFERENCES for Langite | |
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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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Maskelyne N S (1864) Notices of recent discoveries. New Cornish mineral ('Langite'), The Geological Magazine, 1, 48-48 [view file] |
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Pisani F (1864) Analysis of langite, a new mineral from Cornwall, The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, 28, 403-404 [view file] |
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Pisani M (1864) Minéralogie. - Analyse de la langite, nouveau minéral du Cornouailles, Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences, 59, 633-633 [view file] |
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Maskelyne N S (1865) On new Cornish minerals of the brochantite group, The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, 24, 473-476 [view file] |
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Galy J, Jaud J, Pulou R, Sempère R (1984) Structure cristalline de la langite, Cu4[SO4(OH)6H2O]·H2O, Bulletin de Minéralogie, 107, 641-648 |
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Gentsch M, Weber K (1984) Structure of langite, Cu4[(OH)6| SO4].2H2O, Acta Crystallographica, C40, 1309-1311 |
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Frost R L (2003) Raman spectroscopy of selected copper minerals of significance in corrosion, Spectrochimica Acta Part A-Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 59, 1195-1204 |
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Martens W, Frost R L, Kloprogge J T, Williams P A (2003) Raman spectroscopic study of the basic copper sulphates - implications for copper corrosion and bronze disease, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 34, 145-151 |
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Frost R L, Williams P A, Martens W, Leverett P, Kloprogge J T (2004) Raman spectroscopy of basic copper (II) and some complex copper (II) sulfate minerals: Implications for hydrogen bonding, American Mineralogist, 89, 1130-1137 [view file] |
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Markl G, Keim M F, Bayerl R (2019) Unusual mineral diversity in hydrothermal vein-type deposit: The Clara mine, SW Germany, as a type example, The Canadian Mineralogist, 57, 427-456 |
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