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Acuminite from
Ivigtut Mine, Ivigtut stock, Arsuk Fjord, Sermersooq, Greenland


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Acuminite
Formula:Sr[AlF4(OH)(H2O)]
Comments:Found in 2 cavities in a singlehanded specimen.
Habit:The mineral occurs as aggregates of crystals shaped like spear points, about 1 mm long. Dominant forms are {100} and {111}, with {112} rare.
Colour:Colorless
Quality for species:Good crystals or rich for species - important (!)
Abundance at site:Very Rare
Confirmation
Validity:Valid - Type Locality
Associated Minerals:
Associates:Celestine
Fluorite
Gearksutite
Jarlite
Pachnolite
Thomsenolite
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Acuminite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ivigtut Mine, Ivigtut stock, Arsuk Fjord, Sermersooq, Greenland
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:111
Long-form Identifier:1:3:111:5
GUID (UUID V4):65a14f59-c9e2-40d1-8a3b-f203df8e2d20
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book
MINERAL SPECIES FffiST DESCRIBED fron1 GREENLAND Ole V. Petersen & Ole Johnsen Also in this series...Publication 7 (2005) MINE. RAL ....... SPECIES FIRST DESCRIBED froin GREENLAND Ole V. Petersen & Ole...organizations: The Commission for Scientific Research in Greenland Geologisk Museums St0ttefond (Geological Museum's...document on the minerals first discovered in Greenland. After all, as they point out in the first sentence...Introduction, a mere 26 kilometers separates Greenland from Canada along Nares Strait; we are neighbors
Journal (issue)
Narssarssuk, Greenland. Photo by R. Bode. TITLE PAGE: The most common mineral in Greenland: ice —making...up the typical Arctic icebergs, ubiquitous in Greenland waters; photo by B. L. Nielsen. This special...(ANGMAGSSALIK) GEOLOGICAL MAP OF GREENLAND NUUK (GODTHAB) PAAMIUT (FREDERIKSHAB) ARSUK NARSARSUAQ NARSAQ QAQORTOQ...Paleozoic and Mesozoic North Greenland platform and fold belt East Greenland Caledonian fold belt P rote...Archaean i 500 km i i i i PREFACE Throughout Greenland there are many interesting mineral localities
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(1991) - 0044-2968/91 $3.00+0.00 The structure of acuminite, a strontium aluminium fluoride mineral E. Krogh...structure f Acuminite Abstract. An X-ray diffraction study of single crystals of acuminite, a strontium...strontium aluminium fluoride mineral from Ivigtut, Greenland [SrAIF4(OH)' H20, a = 13.223(1) A, b = 5.175(1)...fluoride ions and 2 hydroxyl ions. The structure of acuminite is compared with the structure of tikhoenkovite...new strontium mineral in a sample from Ivigtut, Southern Greenland, was published by Pauly and Petersen
Report (issue)
Acuminite SrAlF4 (OH) • H2 O c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Monoclinic...175(1) c = 14.251(1) X-ray Powder Pattern: Ivigtut, Greenland. 4.767 (10), 4.706 (10), 3.505 (10), 3.353...33.68 7.54 7.98 Total [97.06] 100.00 (1) Ivigtut, Greenland; by AA, Al by CDTA, F by electrolysis; OH...celestine. Distribution: In the Ivigtut cryolite deposit, southwestern Greenland. Name: From the Latin acuminis...O.V. Petersen (1987) Acuminite, a new Sr-fluoride from Ivigtut, South Greenland. Neues Jahrb. Mineral
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(1991) - 0044-2968/91 $3.00+0.00 The structure of acuminite, a strontium aluminium fluoride mineral E. Krogh...structure f Acuminite Abstract. An X-ray diffraction study of single crystals of acuminite, a strontium...strontium aluminium fluoride mineral from Ivigtut, Greenland [SrAIF4(OH)' H20, a = 13.223(1) A, b = 5.175(1)...fluoride ions and 2 hydroxyl ions. The structure of acuminite is compared with the structure of tikhoenkovite...new strontium mineral in a sample from Ivigtut, Southern Greenland, was published by Pauly and Petersen
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(in Dana 1868) in the cryolite deposit of Ivigtut, Greenland. It has subsequently been found, as a late...commonly in white earthy masses. At the La Veneziana mine, Veneto, Italy (Boscardin et al. 1995), it is found...SrAlF4(OH)·2H2O (Pudovkina and Pyatenko 1967) and acuminite, SrAlF4(OH)· 2H2O (Krogh Andersen and Ploug-Sørensen...ralstonite, morinite, and gearksutite at the Cleveland mine, Tasmania, Australia. These authors described this...crystal fragment of gearksutite from the Cleveland Mine (Tasmania) was used for intensity data collection
Report (issue)
821(5) c = 7.241(2) X-ray Powder Pattern: Ivigtut, Greenland. 2.97 (10), 3.18 (9), 2.15 (7), 3.10 (6)...12.16 43.23 2.91 0.08 Total 99.90 (1) Ivigtut, Greenland; corresponds to Na1.00 (Sr5.67 Na0.96 Ca0...stenonite, acuminite, bøgvadite, jørgensenite, fluorite, topaz, barite. Distribution: From the Ivigtut cryolite...cryolite deposit, Greenland. Name: For Carl Frederik Jarl (1872–1951), formerly President of the Danish...F)4 , a new aluminofluoride mineral from Ivigtut, Greenland. Can. Mineral., 35, 175–179. All rights reserved
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
100} and { I 10}. Perfect { 100} from Ivigtut, South Greenland. Neues Jahrb. Mineral. Mon., cleavage...2V^*, : Amstallite occurs in an open-pit graphite mine at Amstall, 46(2f to 57(2)",strong dispersion r...lysis of a crystal from a heavy-minat Ivigtut, South Greenland. Associated minerals are celestite, eral...Australia, gave CerO, 12.97,La,o3 8.62, PrrO, sutite. Acuminite is polymorphous with tikhonenkovite, which 3.35...member of the pumpellyite group, from the Kokuriki mine, Hokkaido, Japan.Mineral. Mag., 51, 6ll-614. E
Book
K(U02)As04*3H20, Tet. Vitreous yellow. Fuemrole mine, Temple Mt., Emery Co., Utah, USA. H= 2-3, Djjj=...Ferro-actinolite. Acuminite, SrAlF4(0H)*H20, E Mon. Transparent colorless. Ivigtut, Greenland (SW). H=3.5...grey, bluish-grey, yellow, light green. Langban mine, Filipstad (near), Varmland, Sweden. H= 5, Djjj=3...Ilimaussaq intrusion, Naujakasik, Tunugdliarfik, Greenland (S). H= 5.5-6, Dj4j= 3.8, Dg= 3.724, VIIID 07...5As30ig, E Rhom. Translucent blue-green. Terres mine, St. Ausdell, Cornwall, England and/or Johanngeorgenstadt
Book
1000° Mots inc. Native Gold on Quartz, Paymaster mine, South Porcupine, Ontario / Photo by Brian Boyle...Marquis imprimeur inc. Barite on Quartz, Rock Candy mine, Grand Forks, British Columbia / Photo by Ken Mayer...Mayer Publisher Pyromorphite, Society Girl mine, Moyie, British Columbia / Photo by Ken Mayer Mineralogical... Ontario Canada Diopside on Grossular, Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Quebec / Photo by Jeffrey A. Scovil...including amateur col- lectors, company executives, mine owners, and vari- in the appropriate position.
Book (edition)
Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...(in the sequence North and South America and Greenland, then Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica)...the same sequence: North and South America and Greenland, then Europe, etc. For some economically important...Rice, Dolores co., both Colorado, at the Questa mine, Taos co., New 1994. Abernathyite K2[(UOJ 2l(AsO_J2]•6HzO...Harding Co .. South Dakota. and at the Fuemrole No2 mine, Emery co .. Utah. Also at Menzenschwand Scbwarzwald
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age are found exposed in western Greenland, like Sondre Strom fjord on the south-west coast. and noticed...Cullinan in 1905 at Cut and carat the Premier Mine, South Africa. For the collector, colour and sparkle...deposits in vast opencast mines like this copper mine in Bisbee, Arizona. Huge quantities of rock have...forms part of the boundary between the Pacific Greenland; Yukon, Canada; and Eurasian plates. As the subducted...occurrences Umbria, Italy; Rhine, Germany; East Greenland; Beneath this is a layer of basalt pillow lavas
Book (edition)
Abernathyitc, K[(UO 2 )(AsO,)](HP) 3, tet., Fumerole No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain. on the southeast flank of the...104(3). 326-328 □ Achavnlitc, FcSe, hex .. Cacheuta Mine. Ccrro de Cacheuta. Sierra de Cacheuta. Mcndoza...unknown, ,\IR 29. 169-174 A.mphibole grou □ Acuminite. SrAIF,(OH)·H 2 O, mon., dimorph. with Tikhonenkovite... Ivittuut municipality. southwest Wi tgreenl Greenland. 73. 1492, ZK 194. 221-227 (str.) □ Adumite...tric., Kangcrdluarsuk.Julianehaabdistricl,wcst Greenland,56, 427-446 (str.) Aenigmalilegroup 6, mon.
Book (edition)
Canada Mexico Central America and the Caribbean Greenland Iceland European countries, from west to east...Spotsylvania Co., and Partridge mine, Orange Co., VA, and at Dahlonega, GA; Homestake mine, Lawrence Co., SD; Silver...Lake Co., Breckenridge(*), Summit Co., Ground Hog mine(*), Gilman Co., Silverton and Telluride, San Juan...Ledge mine, Nevada Co., Jamestown, Tuolumne Co., Colorado quartz mine, Mariposa Co., Bonanza mine, Trinity...Nelson, Westland, Otago, and Southland. Emperor mine, Vatukuola, Fiji. Mt. Kare, Papua New Guinea. In
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out of the water first. , .2.t'l UNDERSTAN DING MINE RALS HOVV MINERALS FORM Minerals are the natural...thicker E.g barite, linante. r& iJ NDE RSTA NDING MINE RAL S MI NERAL PROPERTIES: PHYSICAL Every 1nineral...found by Thomas Cullinan in 1905 at the Premier Mine, South Africa. Gem colours A vivid colour is also...Durham, England Harz Mountains, Germany llmaussaq, Greenland Kola Peninsula, Russia Langban, Varmland, Sweden...ldri1a, former Yugoslavia; Almaden mine (Santa Clara Co), Socrates mine (Sonoma Co), California Caution:
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41)(Si3.86Al0.10 Fe0.04O10)(OH)2 from Mikhailovskii mine, Zheleznogorsk, Russia (Chukanov 2014a). IR spectra...In Fe3+-bearing Mg-poor schorl from the Limoeiro mine, Murta, Minas Gerais, Brazil, the band of OH groups...area), olmiite CaMn(HSiO4)(OH) from N’Chwaning II mine, Kalahari manganese fields, South Africa (c), and...brandtite Ca2Mn(AsO4)2·2H2O from skarn (Harstigen mine, Sweden) (b), and roselite Ca2Co(AsO4)2·2H2O from...from Cigana mine, Brazil (a), landesite [nominally, Fe3+Mn2+2 (PO4)2(OH)·] from Bull Moose mine, South Dakota
Book (edition)
44. c 1 3 .50 A. A natural occurrence at a coal mine in the (TL) Lvov-Volynsk basin, USSR. Achates. syn...4·. Z=4 fPDF 18-22 on spec. from Narssarssuaq. Greenland). (TL) Rundemyr. Eker. Kongsberg, Norway. Named... of actinolite, q. v. The original spelling. Acuminite. SrAIF,OH.H 1O. 8.4 . 1 5 H . Pauly and 0 . V...453 on synlh. malerial ]. (TL) Kangerdluarsuq. Greenland. Named from aivryµa ·enigm:i·. :illucling to ils...09. c 7.76 A . Z=2 [PDF 27-620]. (TL) San Carlos mine. Guanajuato. Mexico. Named for S. Aguilar. Agustitc
 
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