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|   |   | Name: Zincroselite RRUFF ID: R100192 Ideal Chemistry: Ca2Zn(AsO4)2·2H2O Locality: Tsumeb, Namibia Source: William W Pinch Owner: RRUFF Description: Colorless, lathlike, elongated and striated, associated with tennantite ore. A piece of the co-type specimen from John Innes Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. | 
| Mineral Group: [ Roselite (18) ] | ||
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| RRUFF ID: | R100192.9 | ||||||
| Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
| Cell Refinement Output: | a: 5.8302(7)Å    b: 12.906(2)Å    c: 5.6513(8)Å alpha: 90° beta: 107.673(8)° gamma: 90° Volume: 405.17(8)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic | ||||||
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| REFERENCES for Zincroselite | |
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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] | |
| Keller P, Innes J, Dunn P J (1986) Zincroselite, Ca2Zn(AsO4)2·2H2O, a new mineral from Tsumeb, Namibia, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1986, 523-527 | |
| Jambor J L, Bladh K W, Ercit T S, Grice J D, Grew E S (1988) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 73, 927-935 [view file] | |
| Fleck M, Kolitsch U, Hertweck B (2002) Natural and synthetic compounds with kröhnkite-type chains: review and classification, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 217, 435-443 | |
| Keller P, Lissner F, Schleid T (2004) The crystal structures of zincroselite and gaitite: Two natural polymorphs of Ca2Zn[AsO4]2·2H2O from Tsumeb, Namibia, European Journal of Mineralogy, 16, 353-359 | |
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