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Name: Pyrosmalite-(Fe) RRUFF ID: R050158 Ideal Chemistry: Fe2+8Si6O15(OH)10 Locality: Burguillos del Cerro, Badajos, Spain Source: Jim McGlasson Owner: RRUFF Description: Green subhedral crystal aggregate Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis |
Mineral Groups: [ Pyrosmalite (9) ] [ Clay (86) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Pyrosmalite-(Fe) samples (3) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R050158.1 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Powder | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 13.3189(8)Å b: 13.3189(8)Å c: 7.0942(3)Å alpha: 90.0° beta: 90.0° gamma: 120.0° Volume: 1089.9(1)Å3 Crystal System: hexagonal |
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REFERENCES for Pyrosmalite-(Fe) | |
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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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Karsten D L G (1808) Pyrosmalith, in Mineralogische Tabellen 2nd Heinrich August Rottman Berlin 103-103 [view file] |
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Moll C E F (1808) Vorläufige Notiz von einigen neuen nordischen Fossilien; von dem Herrn Cammersecretär Hausmann zu Braunschweig mitgetheilt. 1. Pirodmalit, in Efemeriden der Berg und Hüttenkunde Steinischen Buchhandlung Nürnberg 390-393 [view file] |
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Zambonini F (1901) Pyrosmalith aus der Bjelke-Grube (Nordmarken), Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 34, 554-561 [view file] |
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Goßner B, Mußgnug F (1931) Die molekulare einheit von pyrosmalith., Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 76, 525-528 [view file] |
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Hey M H (1956) The empirical unit-cell contents of the friedelite family, American Mineralogist, 41, 134-138 [view file] |
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Kayupova M M (1964) Pyrosmalite from the Dzhumart and Ushkatyn deposits, central Kazakhstan, Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR Earth Science Sections, 159, 82-85 [view file] |
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Kashaev A A (1968) The crystal structure of pyrosmalite, Soviet Physics - Crystallography, 12, 923-924 [view file] |
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Takéuchi Y, Kawada I, Irimaziri S, Sadanaga R (1969) The crystal structure and polytypism of manganpyrosmalite, Mineralogical Journal, 5, 450-467 [view file] |
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Kato T, Takéuchi Y (1983) The pyrosmalite group of minerals. I. Structure refinement of manganpyrosmalite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 21, 1-6 [view file] |
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Takéuchi Y, Ozawa T, Takahata T (1983) The pyrosmalite group of minerals III. Derivation of polytypes, The Canadian Mineralogist, 21, 19-27 [view file] |
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Vaughan J P (1986) The iron end-member of the pyrosmalite series from the Pegmont lead-zinc deposit, Queensland, Mineralogical Magazine, 50, 527-531 [view file] |
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Vaughan J P (1987) Ferropyrosmalite and nomenclature in the pyrosmalite series, Mineralogical Magazine, 51, 174-174 [view file] |
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Jambor J L, Bladh K W, Ercit T S, Grice J D, Grew E S (1988) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 73, 927-935 [view file] |
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Pan Y, Fleet M E, Barnett R L, Chen Y (1993) Pyrosmalite in Canadian Precambrian sulfide deposits: mineral chemistry, petrogenesis and significance, The Canadian Mineralogist, 31, 695-710 [view file] |
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Burke E A J (2008) Tidying up mineral names: an IMA-CNMNC scheme for suffixes, hyphens and diacritical marks, The Mineralogical Record, 39, 131-135 [view file] |
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Yang H, Downs R T, Yang Y W, Allen W H (2011) Pyrosmalite-(Fe), Fe8Si6O15(OH,Cl)10, Acta Crystallographica, E68, i7-i8 [view file] |
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