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Name: Conichalcite RRUFF ID: R070447 Ideal Chemistry: CaCu(AsO4)(OH) Locality: Copper Creek District, Mammoth, Arizona, USA Source: Bob Jenkins Owner: RRUFF Description: Green prismatic crystals scattered over quartz Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis. |
| Mineral Group: [ Adelite (19) ] | ||
| Quick search: [ All Conichalcite samples (6) ] | ||
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| RRUFF ID: | R070447.9 | ||||||
| Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
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a: 7.371(5)Å b: 5.807(3)Å c: 9.194(5)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 393.6(2)Å3 Crystal System: orthorhombic |
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| REFERENCES for Conichalcite | |
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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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Breithaupt J F A, Fritzsche F W (1849) Bestimmung neuer Mineralien: Konichalcit, Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 77, 139-141 [view file] |
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Larsen E S (1921) The microscopic determination of the nonopaque minerals, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 671, 5-294 [view file] |
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Berry L G (1951) Observations on chonichalcite, cornwallite, euchroite liroconite and olivenite, American Mineralogist, 36, 484-503 [view file] |
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Qurashi M M, Barnes W H (1963) The structures of the minerals of the descloizite and adelite groups: IV - descloizite and conichalcite (part 2) The structure of conichalcite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 7, 561-577 [view file] |
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Qurashi M M, Barnes W H (1964) The structures of the minerals of the descloizite and adelite groups: V—descloizite and conichalcite (part 3). The structure of descloizite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 8, 23-39 [view file] |
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Sumin de Portilla V I (1974) Infrared spectroscopic investigation of the structure of some natural arsenates and the nature of H-bonds in their structures, The Canadian Mineralogist, 12, 262-268 [view file] |
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Jambor J L, Owens D R, Dutrizac J E (1980) Solid solution in the adelite group of arsenates, The Canadian Mineralogist, 18, 191-195 [view file] |
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Reddy B J, Frost R L, Martens W N (2005) Characterization of conichalcite by SEM, FTIR, Raman and electronic reflectance spectroscopy, Mineralogical Magazine, 69, 155-167 [view file] |
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Henderson R R, Yang H, Downs R T, Jenkins R A (2008) Redetermination of conichalcite, CaCu(AsO4)(OH), Acta Crystallographica, E64, i53-i54 [view file] |
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Sakai S, Yoshiasa A, Sugiyama K, Miyawaki R (2009) Crystal structure and chemistry of conichalcite, CaCu(AsO4)(OH), Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences, 104, 125-131 |
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Schlüter J, Pohl D, Gebhard G (2011) The new mineral hermannroseite, CaCu(PO4,AsO4)(OH), the phosphate analogue of conichalcite, from Tsumeb, Namibia, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Abhandlungen, 188, 135-140 |
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Mauro D, Biagioni C, Sejkora J, Dolníček Z (2023) Occurrence and crystal chemistry of austinite, conichalcite and zincolivenite from the Peloritani Mountains, northeastern Sicily, Italy, Mineralogical Magazine, 87, 659-669 |
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