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Name: Heterogenite RRUFF ID: R050382 Ideal Chemistry: Co3+O(OH) Locality: Goodsprings, Nevada, USA Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 7433 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Black massive, polytype 3R Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis |
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RRUFF ID: | R050382.1 | |||||||
Sample Description: | Powder | |||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 2.8646(3)Å b: 2.8646(3)Å c: 13.358(6)Å alpha: 90.° beta: 90.° gamma: 120.° Volume: 94.93(4)Å3 Crystal System: hexagonal |
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REFERENCES for Heterogenite | |
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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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Frenzel A (1872) Mineralgisches 5. Heterogenit, Journal für Praktische Chemie, 5, 401-407 [view file] |
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Schoep A (1921) Sur la nature et la composition chimique d'un minéral de cobalt provenant du Katanga, Bulletin de la Société Chimiques de Belgique, 30, 207-212 [view file] |
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Wherry E T (1922) New minerals: redefinition of species, American Mineralogist, 7, 194-196 [view file] |
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Kondrashev Y D, Fedorava N N (1954) The crystal structure of CoHO2, Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, 94, 229-231 [view file] |
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Hey M H (1962) Cobaltic hydroxide in nature, Mineralogical Magazine, 33, 253-259 [view file] |
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Fleischer M (1963) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 48, 209-217 [view file] |
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International Mineralogical Association (1967) Commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Magazine, 36, 131-136 [view file] |
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Deliens M, Goethals H (1973) Polytypism of heterogenite, Mineralogical Magazine, 39, 152-157 [view file] |
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Fleischer M, Mandarino J A (1974) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 59, 381-384 [view file] |
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Hazen R M, Hystad G, Golden J J, Hummer D R, Liu C, Downs R T, Morrison S M, Ralph J, Grew E S (2017) Cobalt mineral ecology, American Mineralogist, 102, 108-116 [view file] |
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