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Name: Ruizite RRUFF ID: R130787 Ideal Chemistry: Ca2Mn3+2Si4O11(OH)4·2H2O Locality: Wessels mine, Hotazel, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape Province, South Africa Source: Marcus Origlieri [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Brown prismatic crystals in radiating groups, with a globular gyrolite-like mineral, on and in hydroxyapophyllite-(K) with minor inesite. Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis. |
Mineral Group: [ Ruizite (5) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Ruizite samples (3) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R130787.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 9.0360(3)Å b: 6.1684(2) Å c: 11.9602(4) Å alpha: 90° beta: 91.433(2) ° gamma: 90° Volume: 666.43(4) Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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REFERENCES for Ruizite | |
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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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Williams S A, Duggan M (1977) Ruizite, a new silicate mineral from Christmas, Arizona, Mineralogical Magazine, 41, 429-432 [view file] |
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Fleischer M, Pabst A, White J S (1978) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 63, 793-796 [view file] |
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Wilson W E, Dunn P J (1978) The Kalahari manganese field, The Mineralogical Record, 9, 137-153 |
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Hawthorne F C (1984) The crystal structure of ruizite, a sorosilicate with an [Si4O13] cluster, Tschermaks Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen, 33, 135-146 |
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Dunn P J, Gobel V, Grice J D, Puziewicz J, Shigley J E, Vanko D A, Zilczer J (1985) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 70, 436-441 [view file] |
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Moore P B, Shen J, Araki T (1985) Crystal chemistry of the 2∞[M3+2Φ2(TO4)2] sheet: structural principles and crystal structures of ruizite, macfallite and orientite, American Mineralogist, 70, 171-181 [view file] |
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Fendrich K V, Downs R T, Origlieri M J (2016) Redetermination of ruizite, Ca2Mn3+2[Si4O11(OH)](OH)2·2H2O, Acta Crystallographica, E72, 959-963 [view file] |
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Hîrtopanu P, Dumitras D G, Marincea Ş, Călin N (2022) Inesite, hubeite, ruizite, apophyllite, and manganoan ilvaite from Cavnic, Eastern Carpathians, Romania, Carpathian Journal of Earth and Environmental Sciences, 17, 387-400 [view file] |
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