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PhotosBertrandite - Kara-Oba W deposit, Betpakdala Desert, Karagandy Province, Kazakhstan
10th Aug 2017 00:28 UTCRichard Gunter Expert
10th Aug 2017 02:15 UTCPavel Kartashov Manager
where do you see betpakdalite in caption or at the photo? It grows in quite different association in this deposit - forms microcrystalline pseudomorphoses after pyrite in muscovite greisens. Betpakdalite never was observed in axial cavities and pockets of ore veins with fresh sulphides.
10th Aug 2017 15:27 UTCRichard Gunter Expert
Betpakdalite is mentioned in the photo caption as a possible identification of the powdery yellow material. Would the rounded rhombs on my quartz crystal be Siderite , as I originally thought?
10th Aug 2017 17:45 UTCPavel Kartashov Manager
This yellow stuff over the sample is rather iron oxalate precepitation after cleaning of the stone in oxalic acid, then any betpakdalite.:-) No real betpakdalite is possible in such samples.
10th Aug 2017 18:16 UTCRichard Gunter Expert
Thanks for the information. As far as I can tell my sample has not been cleaned and the late-stage yellow phase is definitely crystalline.
10th Aug 2017 18:36 UTCUwe Kolitsch Manager
Message sent.
10th Aug 2017 19:05 UTCPavel Kartashov Manager
Uwe, you discoursing as Chinese scholar, who never cleaned samples by oxalic acid personally. :-)
Different minerals in the same association has different quality of their surfaces. Iron oxalate able to be eliminated from quartz smooth surface by hard brush, but bertrandite surface is more rough (etched, porous or covered by some insoluble porous film) and catching oxalate particles more tightly.
11th Aug 2017 08:18 UTCMartin Slama Expert
due to the fact that I am not sure what it is, I wrote possibly. What could it be? The Pyrite is fresh and the Bertrandite xls are covered with this yellow stuff, no xls are shown.
11th Aug 2017 12:21 UTCPavel Kartashov Manager
I am think that this yellowish dirt is traces of unsuccessful cleaning in oxalic acid solution. Exactly this effect is the reason why I don't use it over 20 years.
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