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The zinc analogue of schulenbergite, from Ramsbeck, Germany

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

A. Livingstone ,
B. Jackson  and
P. J. Davidson
A. Livingstone
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Royal Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1JF
B. Jackson
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Royal Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1JF
P. J. Davidson
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Royal Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1JF
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Abstract

A blue-green scaly coating on a slaty specimen from the Bastenberg mine, near Ramsbeck, Germany, yielded an X-ray powder pattern akin to schulenbergite. Chemically it is the zinc analogue of schulenbergite. Electron-probe data, XRF and ICP/OES analyses are presented which demonstrate two distinct zinc-rich compositions. Thermogravimetric analysis, together with CHN results, suggest the phase may contain 3-4 water molecules. Powder data are indexed on a hexagonal cell with a 8.293(2) Å, c 7.247(4) Å and cell volume 431.6(2) Å3, with Z = 1.

Type
Mineralogy
Information
Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 56 , Issue 383 , June 1992 , pp. 215 - 219
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1992

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