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Name: Reddingite RRUFF ID: R090058 Ideal Chemistry: Mn2+3(PO4)2·3H2O Locality: Palermo #1, North Groton, New Hampshire, USA Source: Royal Ontario Museum M53457 Owner: RRUFF Description: Pale brown translucent pseudo-octahedral crystals associated with blue vivianite and colorless triphylite Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis. |
Mineral Group: [ Reddingite (9) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R090058.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 9.524(3)Å b: 10.129(3)Å c: 8.690(2)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 838.3(5)Å3 Crystal System: orthorhombic |
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REFERENCES for Reddingite | |
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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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Brush G J, Dana E S (1878) On a new and remarkable mineral locality in Fairfield County, Connecticut; with a description of several new species occurring there. First Paper., American Journal of Science and Arts, 116, 33-46; 114-123 [view file] |
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Brush G J, Dana E S, Wells H L (1890) On the mineral locality at Branchville, Connecticut: Fifth paper, American Journal of Science, 39, 201-216 [view file] |
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Steinmetz H (1926) Phosphophyllit und Reddingit von Hagendorf, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 64, 405-412 [view file] |
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Berman H, Gonyer F A (1930) Pegmatite minerals in Poland, Maine, American Mineralogist, 15, 375-387 [view file] |
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Eversheim P, Kleber W (1953) Morphologie und struktur des reddingits, P2O5·3FeO·3H2O, Acta Crystallographica, 6, 215-216 |
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Tennyson C (1954) Phosphoferrit und reddingit von Hagendorf, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Abhandlungen, 87, 185-217 |
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Moore P B, Araki T (1976) A mixed-valence solid-solution series: Crystal structures of phosphoferrite, FeII3(H2O)3[PO4]2, and kryzhanovskite, FeIII3(OH)3[PO4]2, Inorganic Chemistry, 15, 316-321 |
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Moore P B, Araki T, Kampf A R (1980) Nomenclature of the phosphoferrite structure type: refinements of landesite and kryzhanovskite, Mineralogical Magazine, 43, 789-795 [view file] |
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Frost R L, Xi Y, Scholz R, Belotti F M and Lagoeiro L E (2012) Chemistry, Raman and infrared spectroscopic characterization of the phosphate mineral reddingite: (MnFe)3(PO4)2(H2O,OH)3, a mineral found in lithium-bearing pegmatite, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 39, 803-810 [view file] |
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