Alumoklyuchevskite R070041
Name: Alumoklyuchevskite
RRUFF ID: R070041
Ideal Chemistry: K3Cu2+3AlO2(SO4)4
Locality: main fracture, N breakthrough, Tolbachik Volcano, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia
Source: Michael Scott S105109 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Green blebs to prismatic or needle-like crystals associated with vergasovaite, co-type material
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction.
Mineral Group: [ Klyuchevskite (2) ]
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 65% of 150mW
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POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R070041.9
Sample Description: Single crystal, powder profile is calculated
Cell Refinement Output: a: 18.68(2)Å    b: 4.940(4)Å    c: 18.41(2)Å
alpha: 90°    beta: 101.79(3)°    gamma: 90°   Volume: 1664(3)Å3    Crystal System: monoclinic
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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Alumoklyuchevskite

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]

Gorskaya M G, Vergasova L P, Filatov S K, Rolich D V, Ananiev V V (1995) Alumoklyuchevskite, K3Cu3AlO2(SO4)4, a new oxysulfate of K, Cu, and Al from volcanic exhalations, Kamchatka, Russia, Zapiski Vserossijskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva, 124, issue 1 95-100   [view file]

Jambor J L, Pertsev N N, Roberts A C (1996) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 81, 249-254   [view file]

Krivovichev S V, Filatov S K, Cherepansky P N (2008) Crystal structure of alumoklyuchevskite, K3Cu3AlO2(SO4)4 [in Russian], Zapiski Rossiiskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchetstva, 137, 114-122   [view file]

Krivovichev S V, Filatov S K, Cherepansky P N (2009) The crystal structure of alumoklyuchevskite, K3Cu3AlO2(SO4)4, Geology of Ore Deposits, 51, 656-662   [view file]

Siidra O I, Nazarchuk E V, Zaitsev A N, Lukina E A, Avdontseva E Y, Vergasova L P, Vlasenko N S, Filatov S K, Turner R, Karpov G A (2017) Copper oxosulphates from fumaroles of Tolbachik volcano: puninite, Na2Cu3O(SO4)3- a new mineral species and structure refinements of kamchatkite and alumoklyuchevskite, European Journal of Mineralogy, 29, 499-510, 1089   [view file]

Gagné O C, Belakovskiy D I, Cámara F (2018) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 103, 657-663   [view file]