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Aluminium from
Unspecified Caves, Venezuela


Locality type:Cave
Classification
Species:Aluminium
Formula:Al
Comments:In one quartzite cave native aluminum was identified using several techniques and becomes the world first occurrence of this species as a cave mineral. It was found as a powdery efflorescence on the cave wall, but the speleothem is inactive not allowing the observation of formation conditions.
Confirmation
Validity:Unconfirmed/Questioned
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Aluminium data
Locality Data:Click here to view Unspecified Caves, Venezuela
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:894341
Long-form Identifier:1:3:894341:5
GUID (UUID V4):b6e5c0f1-366b-4b77-8352-467097fd7668
References
Franco Urbani (2009) Venezuelan Cave Minerals: Second Review. Mineralogy 1 2009 ICS Proceedings. In 15th International Congress of Speleology. p 345
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Žáček, V., Škoda, R., Laufek, F., Košek, F., Jehlička, J. (2019) Complementing knowledge about rare sulphates lonecreekite, NH4Fe3+(SO4)2·12 H2O and sabieite, NH4Fe3+(SO4)2: chemical composition, XRD and RAMAN spectroscopy (Libušín near Kladno, the Czech Republic) Journal of GEOsciences, 64 (2) 149-159
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derived from the dehydration of lonecreekite. The aluminium analogue of lonecreekite is tschermigite (NH4)...(NH4) Al (SO4)2·12 H2O, natural ammonium aluminium alum. Lonecreekite from the type locality has the empirical...of Milan, Ohio (Carlson 2010), from unspecified caves in Venezuela (Mindat 2019) and without detailed...low-intensity bands can be linked to the high aluminium ammonium or water molecules in the 1300–1800 cm–1...it was safely revealed by Raman spectroscopy. Aluminium-bearing sulphates – alunogen, millosevichite,
 
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