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Name: Ludjibaite RRUFF ID: R060413 Ideal Chemistry: Cu5(PO4)2(OH)4 Locality: Sossego, Carajas, Brazil Source: Bob Jenkins [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Bluish-green groups of colliform aggregates Status: The identification of this mineral is not yet confirmed. |
Mineral Group: [ Medenbachite (1) ] |
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REFERENCES for Ludjibaite | |
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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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Shoemaker G L, Anderson J B, Kostiner E (1981) The crystal structure of a third polymorph of Cu5(PO4)2(OH)4, American Mineralogist, 66, 169-175 [view file] |
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Jambor J L, Burke E A J, Ercit T S, Grice J D (1988) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 73, 1492-1499 [view file] |
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Piret P, Deliens M (1988) Description de la ludjibaïte, un polymorphe de la pseudomalachite, Cu5(PO4)2(OH)4, Bulletin de Minéralogie, 111, 167-171 |
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Frost R L, Kloprogge T, Williams P A, Martens W, Johnson T E, Leverett P (2002) Vibrational spectroscopy of the basic copper phosphate minerals: pseudomalachite, ludjibaite and reichenbachite, Spectrochimica Acta Part A-Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 58, 2861-2868 [link] |
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Frost R L, Williams P A, Martens W, Kloprogge J T, Leverett P (2002) Raman spectroscopy of the basic copper phosphate minerals cornetite, libethenite, pseudomalachite, reichenbachite and ludjibaite, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 33, 260-263 [link] |
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Martens W N, Frost R L, Williams P A (2003) The basic copper phosphate minerals pseudomalachite, ludjibaite and reichenbachite: an infrared emission and Raman spectroscopic study, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 2003, 337-362 |
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Makovicky E (2019) The pseudomalachite-ludjibaite-reichenbachite conundrum: OD description, The Canadian Mineralogist, 57, 571-581 |
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