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Arsenoferrite

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Synonym of:Cafarsite


Found around 1880 in the Lercheltini area, Binn valley, Wallis, Switzerland, and described by Baumhauer (1913) as a diarsenide of iron, due to a wrong interpretation of the analytical results. It was later shown to be identical to Cafarsite.

References for Arsenoferrite

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Groth, P. (1881): Eine Pseudomorphose aus dem Binntal VS. Zeitschrift für Kristallographie 5: 253 ff.

Baumhauer, H. (1913): Arsenoferrit, ein neues Glied der Pyrit-Gruppe. Zeitschrift für Kristallographie 51: 143-145.

Palache, Charles, Harry Berman & Clifford Frondel (1944), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana Yale University 1837-1892, Volume I: Elements, Sulfides, Sulfosalts, Oxides. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York. 7th edition, revised and enlarged: 296.

Stalder, H. A., Wagner, A., Graeser, S. and Stuker, P. (1998): "Mineralienlexikon der Schweiz", Verlag Wepf & Co. (Basel), p. 91

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