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Name: Planerite RRUFF ID: R080123 Ideal Chemistry: Al6(PO4)2(PO3OH)2(OH)8·4H2O Locality: Bruguers, Gavá, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain Source: Joan Abella i Creus [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Light green, microcrystalline fragments Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by X-ray diffraction |
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Mineral Group: [ turquoise (9) ] |
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POWDER DIFFRACTION | |||||||
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RRUFF ID: | R080123 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Powder, using Mo radiation | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 7.528Å b: 7.713Å c: 10.087Å alpha: 69.934° beta: 68.847° gamma: 64.544° Volume: 480.75Å3 Crystal System: triclinic |
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REFERENCES for Planerite | |
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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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Hermann R (1862) Untersuchungen einiger neuer russischer Mineralien. 1. Ueber Planerit, ein neues Mineral, Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou, 35, 240-243 [view file] |
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Fleischer M (1962) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 47, 1216-1223 [view file] |
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Foord E E, Taggart J E (1998) A reexamination of the turquoise group: the mineral aheylite, planerite (redefined), turquoise and coeruleolactite, Mineralogical Magazine, 62, 93-111 [view file] |
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Frost R L, Erickson K L (2005) Near-infrared spectroscopic study of selected hydrated hydroxylated phosphates, Spectrochimica Acta Part A-Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 61, 45-50 [link] |
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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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