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Name: Mimetite RRUFF ID: R130731 Ideal Chemistry: Pb5(AsO4)3Cl Locality: Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Otavi District, Oshikoto, Namibia Source: Bob Downs Owner: RRUFF Description: Pale yellow transparent hexagonal prisms, monoclinic polytype Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. |
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| Mineral Group: [ Apatite (56) ] | ||
| Quick search: [ All Mimetite samples (6) ] | ||
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| RRUFF ID: | R130731.9 | ||||||
| Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
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a: 10.2601(6)Å b: 20.516(1)Å c: 7.4674(5)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 119.913(4)° Volume: 1362.5(2)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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| REFERENCES for Mimetite | |
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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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Beudant F S (1832) Mimetèse, plomb arséniaté, in Traité Élémentaire de Minéralogie, 2nd Edition Paris 594-595 [view file] |
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Fleischer M (1969) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 54, 990-994 [view file] |
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Sumin de Portilla V I (1974) Infrared spectroscopic investigation of the structure of some natural arsenates and the nature of H-bonds in their structures, The Canadian Mineralogist, 12, 262-268 [view file] |
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Cesbron F, Williams S A (1980) Iranite-hémihédrite, bellite, phoenicochroite, vauquelinite et fornacite: synthèse et nouvelles données, Bulletin de Minéralogie, 103, 469-477 [view file] |
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Sokolova E V, Egorov-Tismenko Yu K (1982) Study of crystalline structures of rare arsenates: duftite and mimetite, Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta, Geologiya, 37, 50-56 |
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Ginderow D (1988) Structure cristalline d´un chloro-silico-chromate de plomb, Pb5(CrO4,SiO4)3Cl, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 184, 185-190 [view file] |
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Dai Y, Hughes J M, Moore P B (1991) The crystal structures of mimetite and clinomimetite, Pb5(AsO4)3Cl, The Canadian Mineralogist, 29, 369-376 [view file] |
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Shannon R D, Shannon R C, Medenbach O, Fischer R X (2002) Refractive index and dispersion of fluorides and oxides, Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data, 31, 931-970 [view file] |
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Frost R L, Crane M, Williams P A, Kloprogge J T (2003) Isomorphic substitution in vanadinite [Pb5(VO4)3Cl] - a Raman spectroscopic study, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 34, 214-220 |
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Baikie T, Ferraris C, Klooster W T, Madhavi S, Pramana S S, Pring A, Schmidt G, White T J (2008) Crystal chemistry of mimetite, Pb10(AsO4)6Cl1.48O0.26, and finnemanite, Pb10(AsO3)6Cl2, Acta Crystallographica, B64, 34-41 [view file] |
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Lyalina L M, Savchenko Y E, Selivanova E A, Zozulya D R (2010) Behoite and mimetite from the Saharjok alkaline intrusion, Kola Peninsula, Geology of Ore Deposits, 52, 641-645 |
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Pasero M, Kampf A R, Ferraris C, Pekov I V, Rakovan J R, White T J (2010) Nomenclature of the apatite supergroup minerals, European Journal of Mineralogy, 22, 163-179 [view file] |
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Flis J, Manecki M, Bajda T (2011) Solubility of pyromorphite Pb5(PO4)3Cl - mimetite Pb5(AsO4)3Cl solid solution series, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 75, 1858-1868 |
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Okudera H (2013) Relationships among channel typology and atomic displacements in the structures of Pb5(BO4)3Cl with B = P (pyromorphite), V (vanadinite), and As (mimetite), American Mineralogist, 98, 1573-1579 |
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Markl G, Marks M A W, Holzäpfel J, Wenzel T (2014) Major, minor, and trace element composition of pyromorphite-group minerals as recorder of supergene weathering processes from the Schwarzwald mining district, SW Germany, American Mineralogist, 99, 1133-1146 |
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Epp T, Marks M A W, Ludwig T, Kendrick M A, Eby N, Neidhardt H, Oelmann Y, Markl G (2019) Crystallographic and fluid compositional effects on the halogen (Cl, F, Br, I) incorporation in pyromorphite-group minerals, American Mineralogist, 104, 1673-1688 |
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Puzio B, Zhang L, Szymanowski J E S, Burns P C, Manecki M (2023) Thermodynamic characterization of synthetic lead-arsenate apatites with different halogen substitutions, American Mineralogist, 108, 675-685 |
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