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Unit cell dimensions of the hydrated aluminium phosphate–sulphate minerals sanjuanite, kribergite, and hotsonite

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

H. De Bruiyn
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Univ. of Orange Free State, PO Box 339, Bloemfontein 9300, Republic of South Africa
G. J. Beukes
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Univ. of Orange Free State, PO Box 339, Bloemfontein 9300, Republic of South Africa
W. A. Van Der Westhuizen
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Univ. of Orange Free State, PO Box 339, Bloemfontein 9300, Republic of South Africa
E. A. W. Tordiffe
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Univ. of Orange Free State, PO Box 339, Bloemfontein 9300, Republic of South Africa

Abstract

AT the time when the hydrated aluminium phosphate-sulphate hotsonite (Beukes et al., 1984a) and its equally rare relative zaherite (Beukes et al., 1984b; De Bruiyn et al., 1985) were discovered near Pofadder, South Africa, very little was known about the unit cells of the other two hydrated aluminium phosphate-sulphate minerals sanjuanite and kribergite, originally described by De Abeledo et al. (1968) from Argentina and Sweden, respectively. Although the Powder Diffraction file (PDF) contains the X-ray diffraction patterns for sanjuanite and kribergite (PDF 20-47 and 20-48 respectively), they had not been indexed nor have their unit cell parameters been calculated thus far.

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Short Communications
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1989

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