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Name: Adelite RRUFF ID: R140962 Ideal Chemistry: CaMg(AsO4)(OH) Locality: Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, Franklin Mining District, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA Source: Marcus Origlieri [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Massive aggregate of smokey orange granular crystals, associated with red zincite and black franklinite Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. |
Mineral Group: [ Adelite (19) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Adelite samples (2) ] |
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POWDER DIFFRACTION | |||||||
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RRUFF ID: | R140962.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 7.479(1)Å b: 8.983(2)Å c: 5.928(1)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 398.23(6)Å3 Crystal System: orthorhombic |
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REFERENCES for Adelite | |
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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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Sjögren H (1891) Adelit, ett basiskt arseniat från Nordmarken och Långban, Geologiska Föreningens i Stockholm Förhandlingar, 13, 781-789 [view file] |
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Sjogren H (1892) Contributions to Swedish mineralogy Part I: 8. Adelite a new basic arseniate from Nordmarken, Jakobsberg and Långban, Vermland, Bulletin of the Geological Institution of the University of Upsala, 1, 56-64 [view file] |
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Richmond W E (1940) Crystal chemistry of the phosphates, arsenates and vanadates of the type A2XO4(Z), American Mineralogist, 25, 441-478 [view file] |
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Qurashi M M, Barnes W H (1964) The structures of the minerals of the descloizite and adelite groups: Vdescloizite and conichalcite (part 3). The structure of descloizite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 8, 23-39 [view file] |
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Welin E (1968) Notes on the mineralogy of Sweden 6. X-ray powder data for minerals from Långban and the related mineral deposits of Central Sweden, Arkiv för Mineralogi och Geologi, 4, 499-541 |
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Jambor J L, Owens D R, Dutrizac J E (1980) Solid solution in the adelite group of arsenates, The Canadian Mineralogist, 18, 191-195 [view file] |
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Effenberger H, Krause W, Bernhardt H J (2002) Structural investigations of adelite and cobaltaustinite, two members of the adelite-descloizite group, Experimental Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry Abstract, 9, 30-30 [view file] |
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Effenberger H (2002) New investigations of the adelite-descloizite group, 18th General Meeting of the International Mineralogical Association, Edinburgh, UK, 18, 134-142 [view file] |
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Effenberger H (2002) Structural relations in the adelite- and descloizite-structure type, Acta Crystallographica, A58, C333-C333 |
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Ðorđević T, Kolitsch U, Nasadala L (2016) A single-crystal X-ray and Raman spectroscopic study of hydrothermally synthesized arsenates and vanadates with the descloizite and adelite structure types, American Mineralogist, 101, 1135-1149 |
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