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Name: Cornetite RRUFF ID: R050151 Ideal Chemistry: Cu3(PO4)(OH)3 Locality: Manto Russo, El Salado, Chile Source: Jim McGlasson Owner: RRUFF Description: Druse of blue short prismatic crystals Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis |
Quick search: [ All Cornetite samples (2) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R050151.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 10.851(3)Å b: 14.052(4)Å c: 7.0893(3)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 1081.0(4)Å3 Crystal System: orthorhombic |
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REFERENCES for Cornetite | |
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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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Cesàro G (1912) Sur un nouveau minéral du Katanga, Annales de la Société Géologique de Belgique, 39, B241-B242 [view file] |
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Buttgenbach H (1916) Cornètite, in Les Minéraux et les Roches Liège 452-453 [view file] |
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Gordon S G, Wherry E T (1920) New minerals, American Mineralogist, 5, 15-18 [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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Berry L G (1950) On pseudomalachite and cornetite, American Mineralogist, 35, 365-385 [view file] |
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Eby R K, Hawthorne F C (1989) Cornetite: modulated densely-packed Cu2+ oxysalt, Mineralogy and Petrology, 40, 127-136 |
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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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