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Thermal behaviour and characterization of an iron aluminum arsenate mineral

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It has been determined the thermal behaviour at high temperatures of an iron aluminum arsenate mineral first described in the location of La Serena Valley, Extremadura, Spain, which expands until 1173 K contracting later and softening at 1653 K and full melting at 1773 K. The DTA/TG experiment only detects some rearrangement with an endothermic at 1173 K due to the mica mixing. The mineral is a scorodite variety mixed with micaceous clay which has been found as aggregates of pyramidal crystals associated with quartz, wolframite, molibdenite, cassiterite and other secondary minerals in the pegmatite of the San Nicolas mine. The chemical composition, the physico- chemical characteristics such as density and hardness, as well as the thermal behaviour has allowed to conclude that this mineral can be an Al-enriched scorodite (mansfieldite): (Fe, Al) AsO4·2H2O mixed with illite from the scorodite-mansfieldite series.

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  1. The Glass-Ceramics Group/ Lab. Inst. E. Torroja de CC. Construcción, CSIC, Madrid, Spain

    J. Ma. Rincón, M. Romero & A. Hidalgo

  2. Departement of Crystallography and Mineralogy, University of Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain

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Rincón, J.M., Romero, M., Hidalgo, A. et al. Thermal behaviour and characterization of an iron aluminum arsenate mineral. Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry 76, 903–911 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:JTAN.0000032274.18562.fb

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