Cornwallite R110146
Name: Cornwallite
RRUFF ID: R110146
Ideal Chemistry: Cu5(AsO4)2(OH)4
Locality: Arkaroola Station, flinders Ranges, South Australia, Australia
Source: The University of Arizona Mineral Museum 17398 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Dark green tabular crystals on quartz, associated with lighter green elongated olivenite
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction.
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RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented Raman on the primary sample
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RRUFF ID: R110146
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Sample Description: Unoriented Raman on the primary sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW
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POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R110146.9
Sample Description: Single crystal, powder profile is calculated
Cell Refinement Output: a: 4.585(2)Å    b: 5.760(3)Å    c: 17.333(9)Å
alpha: 90°    beta: 91.89(2)°    gamma: 90°   Volume: 457.5(2)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 Cornwallite

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]

Zippe F X M (1847) Über den Cornwallit, eine neue Species des Mineralreichs, Abhandlungen der Königlichen Böhmischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, 4, 649-654   [view file]

Church A H (1868) Chemical researches on new and rare Cornish minerals. V. Cornwallite, The Journal of the Chemical Society of London, 21, 276-279   [view file]

Berry L G (1948) Tyrolite, higginsite and cornwallite, American Mineralogist, 33, 193-193   [view file]

Berry L G (1951) Observations on chonichalcite, cornwallite, euchroite liroconite and olivenite, American Mineralogist, 36, 484-503   [view file]

Arlt T, Armbruster T (1999) Single-crystal X-ray structure refinement of cornwallite, Cu5(AsO4)2(OH)4: A comparison with its polymorph cornubite and the PO4- analogue pseudo malachite, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1999, 468-480

Frost R L, Martens W N, Williams P A (2002) Raman spectroscopy of the phase-related basic copper arsenate minerals olivenite, cornwallite, cornubite and clinoclase, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 33, 475-484   [link]

Martens W N, Frost R L, Kloprogge J T, Williams P A (2003) The basic copper arsenate minerals olivenite, cornubite, cornwallite, and clinoclase: An infrared emission and Raman spectroscopic study, American Mineralogist, 88, 501-508   [view file]

Ciesielczuk J, Janeczek J, Dulski M, Krzykawski T (2016) Pseudomalachite-cornwallite and kipushite-philipsburgite solid solutions: chemical composition and Raman spectroscopy, European Journal of Mineralogy, 28, 555-569

Markl G, Keim M F, Bayerl R (2019) Unusual mineral diversity in hydrothermal vein-type deposit: The Clara mine, SW Germany, as a type example, The Canadian Mineralogist, 57, 427-456