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Name: Tinsleyite RRUFF ID: R070706 Ideal Chemistry: KAl2(PO4)2(OH)·2H2O Locality: Tip Top mine, Fourmile, Custer District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA Source: Michael Scott S102504 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Pinkish red prismatic crystal fragment Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. |
Mineral Group: [ Leucophosphite (3) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R070706.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 9.531(5)Å b: 9.515(6)Å c: 9.565(6)Å alpha: 90° beta: 103.02(2)° gamma: 90° Volume: 845.1(8)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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REFERENCES for Tinsleyite | |
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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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Dunn P J, Rouse R C, Campbell T J, Roberts W L (1984) Tinsleyite, the aluminum analogue of leucophosphite, from the Tip Top pegmatite in South Dakota, American Mineralogist, 69, 374-376 [view file] |
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Dick S (1999) Über die struktur von synthetischem tinsleyit K[Al2(PO4)2(OH)(H2O)]·(H2O), Zeitschrift für Naturforschung B Chemical Science, 54, 1385-1390 |
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Yakubovich O V, Massa W, Dimitrova O V (2012) A novel potassium-rich variant of tinsleyite, |K1.5(H2O)0.5|[Al2(OH){(OH)0.5(H2O)0.5}(PO4)2], The Canadian Mineralogist, 50, 559-569 [view file] |
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