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Alunite supergroup: recommended nomenclature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

P. Bayliss ,
U. Kolitsch ,
E. H. Nickel  and
A. Pring
P. Bayliss*
Affiliation:
Mineralogy Department, Australian Museum, 6 College Street, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia
U. Kolitsch
Affiliation:
Mineralogisch-Petrographische Abteilung, Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Burgring 7, A-1010 Wien, Austria
E. H. Nickel
Affiliation:
Exploration and Mining, CSIRO, Private Bag 5, Wembley, WA 6913, Australia
A. Pring
Affiliation:
Mineralogy, South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, 5000, Australia
*
*E-mail: ross.pogson@austmus.gov.au
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Abstract

Minamiite has been discredited and renamed natroalunite-2c to show a double unit-cell structure and natroalunite can be designated as natroalunite-1c to show a single unit-cell structure. Kintoreite can be designated as kintoreite-1c to show the same single unit-cell structure, and IMA 1993-039 is a new superstructure of kintoreite and can be designated as kintoreite-2c to show a double unit-cell structure. Beaverite has been renamed beaverite-(Cu). The Zn-bearing beaverite of Sato et al. (2008) has been named “beaverite-(Zn)”, but data for the mineralhave not been approved by the CNMNC. Orpheite has been discredited as P-rich hinsdalite. Proposal 07-D was approved by the CNMNC.

Keywords

nomenclaturealunitenatroalunitekintoreitebeaveriteorpheiteminamiite
Type
Research Article
Information
Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 74 , Issue 5 , October 2010 , pp. 919 - 927
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2010

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deceased 18 July 2009

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