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Name: Dickthomssenite RRUFF ID: R070165 Ideal Chemistry: MgV2O6·7H2O Locality: Firefly-Pigmay mine, La Sal Quadrangle, San Juan County, Utah, USA Source: Michael Scott S100559 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Light brown radiating acicular crystals, portion of the type material. Unit cell is triclinc, twinned around a-axis. The monoclinc cell of Hughes et al (2001) is obtained by doubling our b-axis, and transforming. Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. |
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RRUFF ID: | R070165.9 | ||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||
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a: 7.184(3)Å b: 9.862(5)Å c: 16.305(7)Å alpha: 97.48(2)° beta: 90.10(2)° gamma: 100.39(2)° Volume: 1126.2(5)Å3 Crystal System: triclinic |
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REFERENCES for Dickthomssenite | |
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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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Hughes J M, Cureton F E, Marty J, Gault R A, Gunter M E, Campana C F, Rakovan J, Sommer A, Brueseke M E (2001) Dickthomssenite, Mg(V2O6)·7H2O, a new mineral species from the Firefly-Pigmay Mine, Utah: descriptive mineralogy and arrangement of atoms, The Canadian Mineralogist, 39, 1691-1700 [view file] |
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Jambor J L, Roberts A C (2002) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 87, 1731-1735 [view file] |
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Mandarino J A (2002) New minerals, The Canadian Mineralogist, 40, 1215-1234 [view file] |
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