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Name: Chalcosiderite RRUFF ID: R060339 Ideal Chemistry: CuFe3+6(PO4)4(OH)8·4H2O Locality: Gunheath Pit, St. Austell, Cornwall, England Source: Michael Scott S100184 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Sheafs of green platy crystals associated with white leucophosphite, R060338, and orange cyrilovite, R060504 Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis. |
Mineral Group: [ turquoise (9) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Chalcosiderite samples (2) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R060339.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 7.68(2)Å b: 7.89(2)Å c: 10.23(3)Å alpha: 67.70(8)° beta: 69.26(8)° gamma: 65.02(9)° Volume: 505.71(1.0)Å3 Crystal System: triclinic |
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REFERENCES for Chalcosiderite | |
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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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Ullmann J C (1814) 95. Der als besondere Gattung aufgeführte Chalkosiderit, in Systematisch-Tabellarische Uebersicht der Mineralogisch-Einfachen Fossilien Cassel und Marburg 323-325 [view file] |
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Larsen E S (1921) The microscopic determination of the nonopaque minerals, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 671, 5-294 [view file] |
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Fleischer M (1958) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 43, 1219-1225 [view file] |
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Giuseppetti G, Mazzi F, Tadini C (1989) The crystal structure of chalcosiderite, CuFe3+6(PO4)4(OH)8·4H2O, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1989, 227-239 |
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Abdu Y A, Hull S K, Fayek M, Hawthorne F C (2011) The turquoise-chalcosiderite Cu(Al,Fe3+)6(PO4)4(OH)8·4H2O solid-solution series: A Mössbauer spectroscopy, XRD, EMPA, and FTIR study, American Mineralogist, 96, 1433-1442 [view file] |
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Dyar M D, Jawin E R, Breves E, Marchand G, Nelms M, Lane M D, Mertzman S A, Bish D L and Bishop J L (2014) Mössbauer parameters of iron in phosphate minerals: Implications for interpretation of martian data, American Mineralogist, 99, 914-942 [view file] |
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Rossi M, Rizzi R, Vergara A, Capitelli F, Altomare A, Bellatreccia F, Saviano M, Ghiara R M (2017) Compositional variation of turquoise-group minerals from the historical collection of the Real Museo Mineralogico of the University of Naples, Mineralogical Magazine, 81, 1405-1429 |
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Gandomani E M, Rashidnejad-Omran N, Emamjomeh A, Vignola P, Hashemzadeh T (2020) Electron microprobe study of turquoise-group solid solutions in the Neyshabour and Meydook mines, northeast and southern Iran, The Canadian Mineralogist, 58, 71-83 |
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