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Name: Childrenite RRUFF ID: R070538 Ideal Chemistry: Fe2+Al(PO4)(OH)2·H2O Locality: Llallagua, Bustillos Province, Potosi, Bolivia Source: James Shigley [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Brown pyramidal, prismatic crystals Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. |
Mineral Group: [ Childrenite (12) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Childrenite samples (2) ] |
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POWDER DIFFRACTION | |||||||
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RRUFF ID: | R070538.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 10.394(2)Å b: 13.374(3)Å c: 6.914(1)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 961.2(2)Å3 Crystal System: orthorhombic |
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REFERENCES for Childrenite | |
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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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Brooke H J A (1823) On some undescribed minerals. Childrenite, The Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, and the Arts, 16, 274-277 [view file] |
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Barnes W H (1949) The unit cell and space group of childrenite, American Mineralogist, 34, 12-18 [view file] |
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Hurlbut C S (1950) Childrenite - eosphorite series, American Mineralogist, 35, 793-805 [view file] |
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Barnes W H, Shore V C (1951) The childrenite-eosphorite problem, American Mineralogist, 36, 509-510 [view file] |
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Fransolet A M (1980) The eosphorite-childrenite series associated with the Li-Mn-Fe phosphate minerals from the Buranga pegmatite, Rwanda, Mineralogical Magazine, 43, 1015-1023 [view file] |
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Giuseppetti G, Tadini C (1984) The crystal structure of childrenite from Tavistock (SW England), Ch89Eo11 term of childrenite-eosphorite, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1984, 263-271 |
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Bermanec V, Šćavničar, Zebec V (1995) Childrenite and crandallite from the Stari Trg mine (Trepča), Kosovo: new data, Mineralogy and Petrology, 52, 197-208 |
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Costa G M D, Scholz R, Karfunkel J, Bermanec V, Chaves M L D S C (2005) Fe-Mössbauer spectroscopy on natural eosphorite-childrenite-ernstite samples, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 31, 714-720 |
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Frost R L, Xi Y, Scholz R, López A, Fernandes Lima R M, Moraes Ferreira C (2013) Vibrational spectroscopic characterization of the phosphate mineral series eosphorite - childrenite - (Mn,Fe)Al(PO4)(OH)2·(H2O), Vibrational Spectroscopy, 67, 14-21 |
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Dyar M D, Jawin E R, Breves E, Marchand G, Nelms M, Lane M D, Mertzman S A, Bish D L and Bishop J L (2014) Mössbauer parameters of iron in phosphate minerals: Implications for interpretation of martian data, American Mineralogist, 99, 914-942 [view file] |
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Behal D, Röska B, Park S H, Pedersen B, Benka G, Pfleiderer C, Wakabayashi Y (2017) The first study of antiferromagnetic eosphorite-childrenite series (Mn1xFex)AlP(OH)2H2O (x=0.5), Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 428, 17-27 |
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Hulsobosch N, Thomas R, Boiron M-C, Dewaele S, Muchez P (2017) Direct observation of boro-aluminosilicate melt compositions: Insights from Raman spectroscopy of melt inclusions in pegmatitic tourmaline of the Gatumba-Gitarama area (Rwanda), The Canadian Mineralogist, 55, 377-397 |
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