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Name: Antipinite RRUFF ID: R160005 Ideal Chemistry: KNa3Cu2(C2O4)4 Locality: Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA Source: Danielle Sotomayor and Keith Wentz Owner: RRUFF Description: Blue euhedral crystals exhibiting hemihedral symmetry, associated with colorless barite, yellow hedyphane, and orange wulfenite Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by single crystal X-ray diffraction. |
Mineral Groups: [ Not in a structural group (133) ] [ Oxalate (13) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R160005.9 | ||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 7.1549(6)Å b: 10.7252(4)Å c: 11.1365(6)Å alpha: 113.0852(47)° beta: 101.2741(48)° gamma: 90.3712(40)° Volume: 767.70(14)Å3 Crystal System: triclinic |
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REFERENCES for Antipinite | |
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Williams P A, Hatert F, Pasero M, Mills S J (2014) IMA Commission on new minerals, nomenclature and classification (CNMNC) Newsletter 21. New minerals and nomenclature modifications approved in 2014, Mineralogical Magazine, 78, 797-804 [view file] |
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Chukanov N V, Aksenov S M, Rastsvetaeva R K, Lyssenko K A, Belakovskiy D I, Färber G, Möhn G, Van K V (2015) Antipinite, KNa3Cu2(C2O4)4, a new mineral species from a guano deposit at Pabellón de Pica, Chile, Mineralogical Magazine, 79, 1111-1121 [view file] |
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Cámara F, Gagne O C, Uvarova Y, Belakovskiy D I (2016) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 101, 2123-2131 [view file] |
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Piro O E, Baran E J (2018) Crystal chemistry of organic minerals-salts of organic acids: the synthetic approach, Crystallography Reviews, 24, 149-175 |
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