Structural Classification of Minerals

Volume 3
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Structural Classification
of Minerals
Volume 3: Minerals with ApB q.. . ExFy ... nAq.
General Chemical Formulas and Organic
Minerals

by

J. LIMA-DE-FARIA
Centro de Cristalografia e Mineralogia,
Instituto de Investigar;ăo Cientifica Tropical, Lisbon, Portugal

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Contents

Complementary information ix List of important typographical corrections

Systematic tables 1 in Vol. 2 115
Tables of mineral structure types 91 Acknowledgements 117
Conclusions 111 References 119
General table of mineral basic Mineral index 121
structure types 113

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Complementary information
It will be seen that we have adopted in this volume
the same method of study as was used in the
preceding volumes.
In the systematic tables, the first reference is
normally the one to which the crystal data
corresponds. Whenever a space group is followed
by omission points ( ... ) it is meant that other
space groups are also possible. Some new symbols
are used in the tables, namely c/h to indicate a
certain combination of c and h closest stackings;
S. means a crystallographic system, and s.g.
denotes a space group. A crystallographic system
is placed within curved brackets whenever it is
different from the system to which the Mineral
Reference Manual ascribes the mineral. An
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example is Lindackerite (Tic.), a mineral that the
above-mentioned book refers to as Monoclinic.
The book Encyclopedia of Mineral Names is also
abbreviated as Enc.Min.Nam. The designation of
defect derivatives should be applied only to
mineral structures with small numbers of missing
atoms, such as Pyrrhotite-4C (Fe 7,O)O[S]gh or
Laihumite (Feo.g+2,Fe o.g+3,q)OSiI(O]4c• Dzhalindite
InO[O(OH)3]C is better called a subtraction
derivative of Perovskite Tio[Ca03]C .
When a chemical element is replaced by two
elements in a disordered way the resultant mineral
structure should be called a disordered derivative.
An example is Polhemusite (Zn,Hg)t[S]C, a
disordered derivative of Sphalerite Znt[S]C .