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Name: Alumoklyuchevskite RRUFF ID: R070041 Ideal Chemistry: K3Cu2+3AlO2(SO4)4 Locality: main fracture, N breakthrough, Tolbachik Volcano, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia Source: Michael Scott S105109 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Green blebs to prismatic or needle-like crystals associated with vergasovaite, co-type material Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. |
Mineral Group: [ Klyuchevskite (2) ] |
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POWDER DIFFRACTION | |||||||
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RRUFF ID: | R070041.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 18.68(2)Å b: 4.940(4)Å c: 18.41(2)Å alpha: 90° beta: 101.79(3)° gamma: 90° Volume: 1664(3)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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REFERENCES for Alumoklyuchevskite | |
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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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Gorskaya M G, Vergasova L P, Filatov S K, Rolich D V, Ananiev V V (1995) Alumoklyuchevskite, K3Cu3AlO2(SO4)4, a new oxysulfate of K, Cu, and Al from volcanic exhalations, Kamchatka, Russia, Zapiski Vserossijskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva, 124, issue 1 95-100 [view file] |
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Jambor J L, Pertsev N N, Roberts A C (1996) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 81, 249-254 [view file] |
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Krivovichev S V, Filatov S K, Cherepansky P N (2008) Crystal structure of alumoklyuchevskite, K3Cu3AlO2(SO4)4 [in Russian], Zapiski Rossiiskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchetstva, 137, 114-122 [view file] |
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Krivovichev S V, Filatov S K, Cherepansky P N (2009) The crystal structure of alumoklyuchevskite, K3Cu3AlO2(SO4)4, Geology of Ore Deposits, 51, 656-662 [view file] |
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Siidra O I, Nazarchuk E V, Zaitsev A N, Lukina E A, Avdontseva E Y, Vergasova L P, Vlasenko N S, Filatov S K, Turner R, Karpov G A (2017) Copper oxosulphates from fumaroles of Tolbachik volcano: puninite, Na2Cu3O(SO4)3- a new mineral species and structure refinements of kamchatkite and alumoklyuchevskite, European Journal of Mineralogy, 29, 499-510, 1089 [view file] |
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Gagné O C, Belakovskiy D I, Cámara F (2018) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 103, 657-663 [view file] |
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