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Name: Roselite RRUFF ID: R100191 Ideal Chemistry: Ca2Co(AsO4)2·2H2O Locality: Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 3019 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Druses of dark pink prismatic crystals Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis. |
Mineral Group: [ Roselite (18) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Roselite samples (2) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R100191.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 5.823(1)Å b: 12.912(2)Å c: 5.6366(9)Å alpha: 90° beta: 107.52(1)° gamma: 90° Volume: 404.15(8)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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REFERENCES for Roselite | |
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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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Levy M, Children J G (1824) Account of a new mineral substance, The Annals of Philosophy, 8, 439-442 [view file] |
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Weisbach A (1877) Mineralogische Mittheilungen, Jahrbuch für das Berg- und Hüttenwesen im Königreiche Sachsen, 1877, 42-53 [view file] |
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Peacock M A (1936) On roselite and the rule of highest pseudo-symmetry, American Mineralogist, 21, 589-602 [view file] |
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Hawthorne F C, Ferguson R B (1977) The crystal structure of roselite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 15, 36-42 [view file] |
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Keller P, Hess H, Riffel H (1981) Die kristallstrukturen von zwei neuen calcium-zink-arsenat-mineralen von Tsumeb/Nambia, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 156, 70-71 [view file] |
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Dunn P J, Sturman B D, Nelen J A (1987) Wendwilsonite, the Mg analogue of roselite, from Morocco, New Jersey, and Mexico, and new data on roselite, American Mineralogist, 72, 217-221 [view file] |
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Pekov I V, Vinogradova R A, Chukanov N V, Kulikova I M (2001) On magnesian and cobalt arsenates of the fairfieldite and roselite groups, Zapiski Vserossijskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva, 130, issue 4 10-23 [view file] |
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Fleck M, Kolitsch U, Hertweck B (2002) Natural and synthetic compounds with kröhnkite-type chains: review and classification, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 217, 435-443 |
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Frost R L (2009) Raman and infrared spectroscopy of arsenates of the roselite and fairfieldite mineral subgroups, Spectrochimica Acta Part A-Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 71, 1788-1794 |
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Yang H, Jenkins R A, Downs R T, Evans S H, Tait K T (2011) Rruffite, Ca2Cu(AsO4)2·2H2O, a new member of the roselite group, from Tierra Amarilla, Chile, The Canadian Mineralogist, 49, 877-884 [view file] |
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Hazen R M, Hystad G, Golden J J, Hummer D R, Liu C, Downs R T, Morrison S M, Ralph J, Grew E S (2017) Cobalt mineral ecology, American Mineralogist, 102, 108-116 [view file] |
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