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Name: Libethenite RRUFF ID: R050613 Ideal Chemistry: Cu2(PO4)(OH) Locality: Libethen, Banskobystricky, Slovakia Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 2420 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Dark green wedge-shaped prismatic crystals Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis |
Mineral Group: [ Andalusite (17) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Libethenite samples (2) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R050613.1 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Powder | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 8.0623(3)Å b: 8.4001(4)Å c: 5.8892(2)Å alpha: 90.° beta: 90.° gamma: 90.° Volume: 398.84(2)Å3 Crystal System: orthorhombic |
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REFERENCES for Libethenite | |
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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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Breithaupt J F A (1823) Euchroït. Diprismatischer Oliven-Malachit, in Vollständige Charakteristik des Mineral-Systems. Arnoldischen Buchhandlung Dresden 266-267 [view file] |
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Larsen E S (1921) The microscopic determination of the nonopaque minerals, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 671, 5-294 [view file] |
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Richmond W E (1940) Crystal chemistry of the phosphates, arsenates and vanadates of the type A2XO4(Z), American Mineralogist, 25, 441-478 [view file] |
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Cordsen A (1978) A crystal-structure refinement of libethenite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 16, 153-157 [view file] |
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Keller P, Hess H, Zetter F (1979) Ladungsbilanzen an den verfeinerten kristallstrukturen von libethenit, adamin und Co2[OH/AsO4] und ihre Wasserstoffbrükenbindungen, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Abhandlungen, 134, 147-156 |
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Burns P C, Hawthorne F C (1995) Rietveld refinement of the crystal structure of olivenite: a twinned monoclinic structure, The Canadian Mineralogist, 33, 885-888 [view file] |
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Frost R L, Williams P A, Martens W, Kloprogge J T, Leverett P (2002) Raman spectroscopy of the basic copper phosphate minerals cornetite, libethenite, pseudomalachite, reichenbachite and ludjibaite, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 33, 260-263 [link] |
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Martens W, Frost R L (2003) An infrared spectroscopic study of the basic copper phosphate minerals: cornetite, libethenite, and pseudomalachite, American Mineralogist, 88, 37-46 [view file] |
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Zema M, Tarantino S C, Callegari A M (2010) Thermal behaviour of libethenite from room temperature up to dehydration, Mineralogical Magazine, 74, 553-565 [view file] |
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Belik A A, Naumov P, Kim J, Tsuda S (2011) Low-temperature structural phase transition in synthetic libethenite Cu2PO4OH, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 184, 3128-3133 |
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Majzlan J, Zittlau A H, Grevel K, Schliesser J, Woodfield B F, Dachs E, Števko M, Chovan M, Plášil J, Sejkora J, Milovská S (2015) Thermodynamic properties and phase equilibria of the secondary copper minerals libethenite, olivenite, pseudomalachite, kröhnkite, cyanochroite, and devilline, The Canadian Mineralogist, 53, 937-960 |
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