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Name: Mopungite RRUFF ID: R220042 Ideal Chemistry: NaSb5+(OH)6 Locality: Pereta mine, Tuscany, Italy Source: Erica Bittarello Owner: Erica Bittarello Description: Well-shaped tabular and pseudocubic colourless and milky white crystals. Described in Bittarello et al (2015) Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis |
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Mineral Group: [ Perovskite (44) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Mopungite samples (2) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R220042 | |||||
Sample Description: | Powder, profile is calculated | |||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 8.036(3)Å b: 8.036(3)Å c: 7.926(6)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 511.88(5)Å3 Crystal System: tetragonal |
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REFERENCES for Mopungite | |
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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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Schrewelius N (1938) Röntgenuntersuchung der verbindungen NaSb(OH)6, NaSb6, NaSbO3 und gleichartiger stoffe, Zeitschrift für Anorganische und Allgemeine Chemie, 238, 241-254 [view file] |
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Dunn P J, Ferraiolo J A, Fleischer M, Gobel V, Grice J D, Langley R H, Shigley J E, Vanko D A, Zilczer J A (1985) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 70, 1329-1335 [view file] |
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Williams S A (1985) Mopungite a new mineral from Nevada, The Mineralogical Record, 16, 73-74 [view file] |
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Rintoul L, Bahfenne S, Frost R L (2011) Single-crystal Raman spectroscopy of brandholzite Mg[Sb(OH)6]2·6H2O and bottinoite Ni[Sb(OH)6]2·6H2O and the polycrystalline Raman spectrum of mopungite Na[Sb(OH)6], Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 42, 1147-1153 |
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Bittarello E, Cámara F, Ciriotti M E, Marengo A (2015) Ottensite, brizziite and mopungite from Pereta mine (Tuscany, Italy): new occurrences and crystal structure refinement of mopungite, Mineralogy and Petrology, 109, 431-442 |
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Mitchell R H, Welch M D, Chakhmouradian A R (2017) Nomenclature of the perovskite supergroup: A hierarchical system of classification based on crystal structure and composition, Mineralogical Magazine, 81, 411-461 [view file] |
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Roper A J, Leverett P, Murphy T D, Williams P A (2018) The stability of the rare sodium antimonate, brizziite, and it's role in Sb mobility, Mineralogical Magazine, 82, 89-93 |
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