| Colour: | Yellow; thin splinters ... |
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| Name: | After the type locality, the Sjo Mine (Sjogruvan in Swedish). |
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Originally reported from Sjö Mine, Grythyttan, Hällefors, Västmanland, Sweden.
Classification of Sjogruvite |
| IMA status: | Discredited 1972 |
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Physical Properties of Sjogruvite |
| Colour: | Yellow; thin splinters are blood-red by transmitted light. |
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| Comment: | Darkens upon exposure to air. |
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| Streak: | Yellow |
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Crystallography of Sjogruvite |
| Morphology: | Massive. |
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Other Information |
| Other Information: | Magnetic. Readily soluble in cold HCl without the evolution of chlorine. |
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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. |
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References for Sjogruvite |
| Reference List: | Igelström (1892) Geologiska Föeningens I Stockholm. Förhandlinger, Stockholm: 14: 309.
Igelström (1893) Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, Mineralogie und Petrographie, Leipzig: 22: 471.
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.: 845.
GFF 94 (1972) 423 [discreditation] |
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Localities for Sjogruvite |
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