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Alunite Supergroup
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Plumbogummite
Yangshuo Mine, Yangshuo Co., Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
© Elmar Lackner
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| A = Na, K, Pb, Rb, NH4, Ag, or H2O D = Al, Fe3+, V3+ or Ga3+ | ||||||||||||||||||||
Also known as Alunite Family or Alunite Group.
This supergroup includes: Alunite Group, Beudantite Subgroup, Plumbogummite Group and Dussertite Group. Various other names have been used for these groups (see Mills et al. 2009; Bayliss et al. 2010).
Crystals in the group are generally small, imperfect, and rare. Habit is usually either tabular {0001} or pseudo-cubic (cube-like rhombohedron) to pseudo-cuboctahedral.
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Chemical Properties of Alunite Supergroup | ||||||||||||||||||
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A = Na, K, Pb, Rb, NH4, Ag, or H2O D = Al, Fe3+, V3+ or Ga3+ | |||||||||||||||||
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| Health Warning: | No information on health risks for this material has been entered into the database. You should always treat mineral specimens with care. | |||||||||||||||||
References for Alunite Supergroup | ||||||||||||||||||
| Reference List: - + | Hendricks (1937) American Mineralogist: 22: 773. Lemmon (1937) American Mineralogist: 22: 939. McConnell (1942) American Journal of Science: 240: 649. Palache, C., Berman, H., & Frondel, C. (1951), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, Yale University 1837-1892, Volume II. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, 7th edition, revised and enlarged, 1124 pp.: 555-556. Mills, S.J., Hatert, F., Nickel, E.H. & Ferraris, G. (2009) The standardisation of mineral group hierarchies: application to recent nomenclature proposals. Eur. J. Mineral. 21: 1073–1080. Sato, E., Nakai, I., Miyawaki, R. & Matsubara, S. (2009): Crystal structures of alunite family minerals: beaverite, corkite, alunite, natroalunite, jarosite, svanbergite, and woodhouseite. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie Abhandlungen 185, 313-322. Grey, I. E. Shanks, F. L. Wilson, N. C. Mumme, W. G. and Birch, W. D. (2011): Carbon incorporation in plumbogummite-group minerals. Mineral. Mag. 75, 145-158. | |||||||||||||||||
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Localities for Alunite Supergroup | ||||||||||||||||||
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