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Taranakite from
Grotte di Castellana, Castellana Grotte, Metropolitan City of Bari, Apulia, Italy


Locality type:Cave
Classification
Species:Taranakite
Formula:(K,NH4)Al3(PO4)3(OH) · 9H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Taranakite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Grotte di Castellana, Castellana Grotte, Metropolitan City of Bari, Apulia, Italy
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:537377
Long-form Identifier:1:3:537377:2
GUID (UUID V4):f79e3853-9753-49d4-87fb-8a94067a412d
Nearest other occurrences of Taranakite
27.7km (17.2 miles) Pilano Cave, Martina Franca, Taranto Province, Apulia, Italy
28.5km (17.7 miles) Curtomartino Cave, Acquaviva delle Fonti, Metropolitan City of Bari, Apulia, Italy
34.3km (21.3 miles) Foggianuova Cave (Foggia Nuova Cave), Martina Franca, Taranto Province, Apulia, Italy
39.8km (24.7 miles) Grotta del Cuoco, Martina Franca, Taranto Province, Apulia, Italy
References
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Report (issue)
Na)3 (Al, Fe3+ )5 (PO4 )2 (PO3 OH)6 • 18H2 O Taranakite c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version...Z=6 X-ray Powder Pattern: Apulian Cave PU 38, Italy. 15.82 (100), 3.82 (40), 3.14 (31), 3.36 (29), 7...97 (Al, Fe)4.98 (PO4 )8 • 19.7H2 O. (2) Castellana Cave, Italy. (3) K3 Al5 (PO4 )2 (PO3 OH)6 • 18H2 O...Queensland; the Skipton lava tube caves, 40 km southwest of Ballarat, Victoria; in caves at Mimegarra, Western...South Wales. In the Yangsue Posayen Cave, 20 km south of Guilin, Guangxi Province, China. From the Niah Great
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1722-1727, I99I Brushite, hydroxylapatite, and taranakite from Apulian caves(southern ltaly): New mineralogical...vnRroFronr Istituto di Ricerca sulle Argille, C.N.R., Via Nazario Sauro, 85, 85100 Potenza,Italy Rocco L.lvrl'No...Universiti degli Studi di Bari, Campus Universitario, 70124 Bai,ltaly Ansrn-lcr Samples of brushite, hydroxylapatite...hydroxylapatite, and taranakite collected from seven karst caves of Apulia (southern Italy) have been investigated...investigated by means of chemical analysis and by DTA and XRD techniques. Brushite is found to crystallize
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127–144 Stuttgart, März 2003 The occurrence of taranakite in the “dry” Cioclovina Cave (Sureanu Mountains... & Dumitraş, D.-G. (2003): The occurrence of taranakite in the “dry” Cioclovina Cave (Sureanu Mountains...parameters of taranakite in the “dry” Cioclovina Cave, which is the second documented occurrence of this mineral...roughly hexagonal and tabular on (0001). The indices of refraction are e = 1.508(1) and w = 1.502(1). The...hexagonal cell parameters refined from three sets of X-ray powder data are a = 8.687(9) Å, c = 95.69(5)
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1203–1208, 2005 First reported sedimentary occurrence of berlinite (AlPO4) in phosphate-bearing sediments...DELIA-GEORGETA DUMITRAȘ Department RIMTI, Geological Institute of Romania, 1 Caransebeș Street, RO-012271, Bucharest...Bivouac Room, Cioclovina Cave, Romania. Our analyses of materials collected from this site failed to identify...nature of the samples collected from the bat guano deposit at Cioclovina, many possible sources of confusion...occur. For example, separates from a mixture of taranakite, quartz, and minor illite could give the same
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Ştefan MARINCEA§ Department NII, Geological Institute of Romania, 1 Caransebeş Street, Bucharest, RO–012271...Apatite-(CaOH) is the most abundant phosphate in the deposit of fossil bat guano in the “dry” Cioclovina Cave, Şureanu...Mountains, South Carpathians, Romania. Initial deposits, of both biogenic and authigenic origin, were chemically...mm across and up to 1 mm thick. The mean indices of refraction measured for 10 representative samples...unit-cell parameters calculated as an average of 20 sets of values are a 9.436(13), c 6.868(8) Å. The mineral
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in sheaf- or cluster-like aggregates. The indices of refraction are a = 1.540(5), b = 1.546(2) and g (calculate...average unit cell parameters refined from 30 sets of X-ray powder data are a = 5.811(4) Å, b = 15.175(12)...loss of molecular water is a two-step process and is complete before 210 C. Dehydroxylation of the protonated...Introduction Brushite, ideally Ca(HPO4) · 2H 2O, is one of the most important phosphate species occurring in...integrated studies on this mineral, and the problem of its chemical composition has been generally neglected
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brushite and ardealite) are the main components of the guano deposit inside this cave. Associated minerals...microprobe analysis, suggests that their sequence of crystallization was from hydroxylapatite to brushite...Mereşti or simply as Mereşti, was studied as a part of an extended investigation on the phosphates in the...Romania. During this recent investigation, a range of Ca-bearing phosphates (i. e., hydroxylapatite, brushite...Romanian cave, namely that at Cioclovina. The purpose of the present study is to gain additional data on the
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