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Asbolane R070359

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Name: Asbolane
RRUFF ID: R070359
Ideal Chemistry: Mn4+(O,OH)2·(Co,Ni,Mg,Ca)x(OH)2x·nH2O
Locality: Hachberg, Saint Avold, Moselle, France
Source: Michael Scott S101785 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Thin black platelets coating grains of quartz
Status: The identification of this mineral is not yet confirmed.
Mineral Group: [ Not in a structural group (133) ]
Quick search: [ All Asbolane samples (2) ]
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
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RRUFF ID: R070359
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW
REFERENCES for Asbolane

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]

Breithaupt J F A (1841) Genus 8. Maurites. Species 1. Maurites, Asbolanus kürzer, Asbolan, in Vollständiges Handbuch der Mineralogie, Volume 2 Arnoldische Buchhandlung Dresden and Leipzig 332-334   [view file]

Chukhrov F V, Gorshkov A I, Vitovskaya I V, Drits V A, Sivtsov A V, Rudnitskaya Y S (1982) Crystallographic nature of Co-Ni asbolan, International Geology Review, 24, 598-604

Fleischer M, Burns R G, Cabri L J, Francis C A, Pabst A (1982) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 67, 413-418   [view file]

Llorca S (1988) New data on the composition and structure of asbolanes (New Caledonia), Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences Série II, 307, 155-161

Manceau A, Gorshkov A I, Drits V A (1992) Structural chemistry of Mn, Fe, Co, and Ni in manganese hydrous oxides: Part II. Information from EXAFS spectroscopy and electron and X-ray diffraction, American Mineralogist, 77, 1144-1157   [view file]

Gorshkov A I, Bogdanov Y A, Sivtsov A V, Mokhov A V (1996) A new Mg-Al-Ni asbolane, Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR Earth Science Sections, 345, 230-234   [view file]

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]