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Name: Glushinskite RRUFF ID: R060318 Ideal Chemistry: Mg(C2O4)·2H2O Locality: Route 238, 25 miles west of Maricopa, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA Source: Michael Scott S100313 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Colorless granular spherical aggregate Status: The identification of this mineral is not yet confirmed. |
Mineral Groups: [ Humboldtine (3) ] [ Oxalate (13) ] |
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REFERENCES for Glushinskite | |
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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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Zhemchuzhnikov Y A, Ginzburg A I (1960) Petrology of clays, Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, 1960, 93-93 |
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Fleischer M (1962) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 47, 1482-1485 [view file] |
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Hey M H (1967) International Mineralogical Association: Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names, Mineralogical Magazine, 36, 131-136 [view file] |
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Wilson M J, Jones D, Russell J D (1980) Glushinskite, a naturally occurring magnesium oxalate, Mineralogical Magazine, 43, 837-840 [view file] |
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Fleischer M, Pabst A (1981) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 66, 436-439 [view file] |
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Bayliss P (1987) Mineralogical notes: mineral nomenclature: imogolite, Mineralogical Magazine, 51, 327-327 [view file] |
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Wilson M J, Bayliss P (1987) Mineralogical notes: mineral nomenclature: glushinskite, Mineralogical Magazine, 51, 327-328 [view file] |
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Hawthorne F C, Burke E A J, Ercit T S, Grew E S, Grice J D, Jambor J L, Puziewicz J, Roberts A C, Vanko D A (1988) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 73, 189-199 [view file] |
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Frost R L, Weier M L (2003) Raman spectroscopy of natural oxalates at 298 and 77 K, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 34, 776-785 [link] |
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Garvie L A J (2003) Decay-induced biomineralization of the saguaro cactus (Carnegiea gigantea), American Mineralogist, 88, 1879-1888 [view file] |
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Echigo T, Kimata M (2010) Crystal chemistry and genesis of organic minerals: A review of oxalate and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon minerals, The Canadian Mineralogist, 48, 1329-1358 [view file] |
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Piro O E, Baran E J (2018) Crystal chemistry of organic minerals-salts of organic acids: the synthetic approach, Crystallography Reviews, 24, 149-175 |
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