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Name: Moorhouseite RRUFF ID: R130745 Ideal Chemistry: Co(SO4)·6H2O Locality: Bou Azer, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate Province, Souss-Massa-DraĆ¢ Region, Morocco Source: Donald Doell Owner: RRUFF Description: Light-pinkish fine grains, associated with pink or dark pink spherocobaltite. Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. |
Mineral Group: [ Hexahydrite (4) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R130745.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 10.079(3)Å b: 7.250(2)Å c: 24.372(6)Å alpha: 90° beta: 98.34(1)° gamma: 90° Volume: 1762(1)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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REFERENCES for Moorhouseite | |
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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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Zalkin A, Ruben H, Templeton D H (1962) The crystal structure of cobalt sulfate hexahydrate, Acta Crystallographica, 15, 1219-1224 |
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Fleischer M (1965) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 50, 805-813 [view file] |
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Jambor J L, Boyle R W (1965) Moorhouseite and aplowite, new cobalt minerals from Walton, Nova Scotia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 8, 166-171 [view file] |
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Elerman Y (1988) Refinement of the crystal structure of CoSO4·6H2O, Acta Crystallographica, C44, 599-601 |
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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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