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Name: Turquoise RRUFF ID: R050225 Ideal Chemistry: CuAl6(PO4)4(OH)8·4H2O Locality: Badger Prospect, Lander County, Nevada, USA Source: Marcus Origlieri Owner: RRUFF Description: Light blue massive Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis |
Mineral Group: [ turquoise (9) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Turquoise samples (3) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R050225.1 | |||||||
Sample Description: | Powder | |||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 7.401(4)Å b: 7.639(8)Å c: 9.948(6)Å alpha: 68.94(5)° beta: 69.46(5)° gamma: 64.93(5)° Volume: 462.1(3)Å3 Crystal System: triclinic |
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REFERENCES for Turquoise | |
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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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Erd R C, Foster M D, Proctor P D (1953) Faustite, a new mineral, the zinc analogue of turquois, American Mineralogist, 38, 964-972 [view file] |
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Fleischer M (1961) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 46, 1513-1520 [view file] |
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Cid-Dresdner H (1965) Determination and refinement of the crystal structure of turquois, CuAl6(PO4)4(OH)8·4H2O, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 121, 87-113 [view file] |
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International Mineralogical Association (1967) Commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Magazine, 36, 131-136 [view file] |
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Guthrie GD, Bish DL (1991) Refinement of the turquoise structure and determination of the hydrogen positions., Geological Society of America, Abstracts Annual Meetings, 23, issue 5 A158 [view file] |
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Foord E E, Taggart J E (1998) A reexamination of the turquoise group: the mineral aheylite, planerite (redefined), turquoise and coeruleolactite, Mineralogical Magazine, 62, 93-111 [view file] |
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Kolitsch U, Giester G (2000) The crystal structure of faustite and its copper analogue turquoise, Mineralogical Magazine, 64, 905-913 [view file] |
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Abdu Y A, Hull S K, Fayek M, Hawthorne F C (2011) The turquoise-chalcosiderite Cu(Al,Fe3+)6(PO4)4(OH)8·4H2O solid-solution series: A Mössbauer spectroscopy, XRD, EMPA, and FTIR study, American Mineralogist, 96, 1433-1442 [view file] |
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Rossi M, Rizzi R, Vergara A, Capitelli F, Altomare A, Bellatreccia F, Saviano M, Ghiara R M (2017) Compositional variation of turquoise-group minerals from the historical collection of the Real Museo Mineralogico of the University of Naples, Mineralogical Magazine, 81, 1405-1429 |
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Queffelec A, Fouéré P, Paris C, Stouvenot C, Bellot-Gurlet L (2018) Local production and long-distance procurement of beads and pendants with high mineralogical diversity in an early Saladoid settlement of Guadeloupe (French West Indies), Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 21, 275-288 |
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