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|   |   | Name: Corkite RRUFF ID: R050522 Ideal Chemistry: PbFe3+3(SO4)(PO4)(OH)6 Locality: near Dernbach, Nassau, Germany Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 2490 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Black pseudo-cubo-octahedral single crystals, associated with reniform goethite balls Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis. | 
| Mineral Groups: [ alunite (46) ] [ beudantite (14) ] | ||
| Quick search: [ All Corkite samples (3) ] | ||
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| RRUFF ID: | R050522.9 | ||||||
| Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
| Cell Refinement Output: | a: 7.2894(9)Å    b: 7.2894(9)Å    c: 16.863(1)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 120° Volume: 776.0(2)Å3 Crystal System: hexagonal | ||||||
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| REFERENCES for Corkite | |
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| 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] | |
| Dauber H (1857) Ueber Svanbergit und Beudantit, Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 10, 579-580 [view file] | |
| Rammelsberg C (1857) Ueber die Zusammensetzung des Beudantits, Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 10, 581-583 [view file] | |
| Adam G J (1869) Tableau Minéralogique. Corkite, Annales des Mines, 15, 552-553 [view file] | |
| Butler B S, Schaller W T (1911) Some minerals from Beaver County, Utah, American Journal of Science, 32, 418-424 [view file] | |
| Giuseppetti G, Tadini C (1987) Corkite, PbFe3(SO4)(PO4)(OH)6, its crystal structure and ordered arrangement of the tetrahedral cations, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1987, 71-81 | |
| Scott K M (1987) Solid solution in, and classification of, gossan-derived members of the alunite-jarosite family, northwest Queensland, Australia, American Mineralogist, 72, 178-187 [view file] | |
| Jambor J L (1999) Nomenclature of the alunite supergroup, The Canadian Mineralogist, 37, 1323-1341 [view file] | |
| Frost R L, Wills R, Martens W (2005) Raman spectroscopy of beaverite and plumbojarosite, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 36, 1106-1112 | |
| Sato E, Nakai I, Miyawaki R, Matsubara S (2009) Crystal structures of alunite family minerals: beaverite, corkite, alunite, natroalunite, jarosite, svanbergite, and woodhouseite, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Abhandlungen, 185, 313-322 | |
| Bayliss P, Kolitsch U, Nickel E H, Pring A (2010) Alunite supergroup: recommended nomenclature, Mineralogical Magazine, 74, 919-927 [view file] | |
| Ondrejka M, Bačík P, Sobocký T, Uher P, Škoda R, Mikuš T, Luptáková J, Konečiný P (2018) Minerals of the rhabdophane group and the alunite supergroup in microgranite: products of low-temperature alteration in a highly acidic environment from the Velence Hills, Hungary, Mineralogical Magazine, 82, 1277-1300 | |
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