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Clairite from
Lone Creek Falls cave, Lone Creek Falls, Sabie, Thaba Chweu Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa


Locality type:Cave
Classification
Species:Clairite
Formula:(NH4)2Fe3(SO4)4(OH)3 · 3H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Valid - Type Locality
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Clairite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Lone Creek Falls cave, Lone Creek Falls, Sabie, Thaba Chweu Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:102175
Long-form Identifier:1:3:102175:2
GUID (UUID V4):22dc68c3-e166-4f48-9c19-1b8781556281
References
Martini, J.E.J. (1983) Lonecreekite, sabieite, and clairite, new secondary ammonium ferric-iron sulfates from Lone Creek Fall cave, near Sabie, eastern Transvaal. Annals of the Geological Survey (South Africa): 17: 29-34.
Daltry, V. D. C. (1997) Mineralogy of South Africa: Type-Mineral Species and Type-Mineral Names. Handbook 15. Geological Survey of South Africa
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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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and also of clairite (NH4)Fe3+(SO4)2 (OH)3·3 H2O, is the Lone Creek Falls cave, near Sabie, in eastern...eastern Transvaal, South Africa (Martini 1984). The minerals were found to form together with other sulphates...water that oxidized pyrite in the breccia above the cave and then interacted with ammonia from decaying excreta...corresponds to the mineral from the Sabie type locality in South Africa. The other two polytypes only come...1998), Komló and Pécs-Vasas in the Mecsek Mts., South Hungary (Szakáll and Kristály 2008), the Upper Silesian
 
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