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Name: Phosphosiderite RRUFF ID: R110090 Ideal Chemistry: Fe3+(PO4)·2H2O Locality: Courtland-Gleesan area, Cochise County, Arizona, USA Source: Dave Owen [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Pale pink massive Status: The identification of this mineral is not yet confirmed. |
Mineral Group: [ Phosphosiderite (6) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Phosphosiderite samples (3) ] |
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REFERENCES for Phosphosiderite | |
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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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Bruhns W, Busz K (1890) Phosphosiderit, ein neues Mineral von der Grube Kalterborn bei Eiserfeld im Siegenschen, Zeitschrift für Krystallographie und Mineralogie, 17, 555-560 [view file] |
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Palache C, Berman H, Frondel C (1951) 40.3.2.2 Metastrengite [FePO4·2H2O], in The System of Mineralogy, Volume II, Seventh Edition John Wiley and Sons, Inc New York 769-771 [view file] |
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Fleischer M (1952) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 37, 359-362 [view file] |
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Moore P B (1966) The crystal structure of metastrengite and its relationship to strengite and phosphophyllite, American Mineralogist, 51, 168-176 [view file] |
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International Mineralogical Association (1967) Commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Magazine, 36, 131-136 [view file] |
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International Mineralogical Association (1980) International Mineralogical Association: Commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Magazine, 43, 1053-1055 [view file] |
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Shigley J E, Brown G E (1985) Occurance and alteration of phosphate minerals at the Stewart Pegmatite, Pala District, San Diego County, California, American Mineralogist, 70, 395-408 [view file] |
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Frost R L, Weier M L, Erickson K L, Carmody O, Mills S J (2004) Raman spectroscopy of phosphates of the variscite mineral group, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 35, 1047-1055 [link] |
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Taxer K, Bartl H (2004) On the dimorphy between the variscite and clinovariscite group: refined finestructural relationship of strengite and clinostrengite, Fe(PO4)·2H2O, Crystal Research and Technology, 39, 1080-1088 |
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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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Birch W D (2018) Minerals in the arrojadite, alluaudite and jahnsite-whiteite groups from the Mount Wills pegmatite field, Victoria, Australia, European Journal of Mineralogy, 30, 635-645 |
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