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Name: Leiteite RRUFF ID: R040011 Ideal Chemistry: ZnAs3+2O4 Locality: Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Otavi District, Oshikoto, Namibia Source: Dave Bunk Minerals Owner: RRUFF Description: Transparent tan colored flexible lamellar crystal Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis |
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RRUFF ID: | R040011.1 | |||||||
Sample Description: | Powder | |||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 4.5443(4)Å b: 5.0143(3)Å c: 17.6107(7)Å alpha: 90.° beta: 90.751(4)° gamma: 90.° Volume: 401.26(4)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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REFERENCES for Leiteite | |
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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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Cesbron F P, Erd R C, Czamanski G K, Vachey H (1977) Leiteite: a new mineral from Tsumeb, The Mineralogical Record, 8, 95-97 [view file] |
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Fleischer M, Cabri L J, Pabst A (1977) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 62, 1259-1262 [view file] |
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Ghose S, Sen Gupta P K, Schlemper E O (1987) Leiteite, ZnAs2O4: a novel type of tetrahedral layer structure with arsenite chains, American Mineralogist, 72, 629-632 [view file] |
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Bahfenne S, Rintoul L, Frost R L (2011) Single-crystal Raman spectroscopy of natural leiteite (ZnAs2O4) and comparison with the synthesised mineral, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 42, 659-666 |
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