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|   |   | Name: Segelerite RRUFF ID: R080127 Ideal Chemistry: CaMgFe3+(PO4)2(OH)·4H2O Locality: Tip Top mine, Custer County, South Dakota, USA Source: Thomas A. Loomis TL-41 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Light yellow radiating acicular crystals, on a matrix of rockbridgeite and associated with leucophosphite (R080126) Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. | 
| Mineral Group: [ Overite (3) ] | ||
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| RRUFF ID: | R080127.9 | ||||||
| Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
| Cell Refinement Output: | a: 14.809(3)Å    b: 18.747(5)Å    c: 7.306(2)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 2028.3(6)Å3 Crystal System: orthorhombic | ||||||
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| REFERENCES for Segelerite | |
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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] | |
| Moore P B, Ito J (1974) I. Jahnsite, segelerite, and robertsite, three new transition metal phosphate species II. Redefinition of overite, an isotype of segelerite III. Isotypy of robertsite, mitridatite, and arseniosiderite, American Mineralogist, 59, 48-59 [view file] | |
| Moore P B, Araki T (1977) Overite, segelerite, and jahnsite: a study in combinatorial polymorphism, American Mineralogist, 62, 692-702 [view file] | |
| Grey I E, Mumme W G, Downes P J, Grguric B A, Gable R W (2019) Segelerite from the Mount Deverell variscite deposit, Western Australia. Hydrogen bonding and relationship to jahnsite, European Journal of Mineralogy, 31, 465-471 [view file] | |
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