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<journal-id journal-id-type="archive">gsminmag</journal-id>
<journal-title>Mineralogical Magazine</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="full">Mineralogical Magazine</abbrev-journal-title>
<issn pub-type="ppub">0026-461X</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name>Mineralogical Society</publisher-name>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1180/minmag.1970.037.290.01</article-id>
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<article-title>Bideauxite, a New Arizona Mineral</article-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Williams</surname>
<given-names>Sidney A.</given-names>
</name>
<aff>Phelps Dodge Corp., Douglas, Arizona</aff></contrib></contrib-group>
<pub-date pub-type="ppub">
<month>6</month>
<year>1970</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>37</volume>
<issue>290</issue>
<fpage>637</fpage>
<lpage>640</lpage>
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<date date-type="received">
<day>22</day>
<month>11</month>
<year>1969</year>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 1970, The Mineralogical Society</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>1970</copyright-year>
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<title>Summary</title>
<p>Bideauxite is a new mineral found in specimens from the Mammoth-St. Anthony mine, Pinal County, Arizona. The composition is Pb<sub>2</sub>AgCl<sub>3</sub>(F,OH)<sub>2</sub> with Pb, Ag, Cl, F by duplicate wet analyses. <italic>Z</italic> = 16, G. calc. 6&#x00B7;256, meas. 6&#x00B7;274 (at 24&#x00B7;2 &#x00B0;C). Crystals are isometric hexoctahedral with <italic>a</italic> 14&#x00B7;132 &#x00C5;. Space group <italic>Fd3m</italic>. Crystals show <italic>a</italic>, <italic>o</italic>, <italic>d</italic>, <italic>m</italic> &#x007B;113&#x007D;, <italic>&#x03BC;</italic> &#x007B;114&#x007D;, <italic>n</italic> &#x007B;112&#x007D;, <italic>&#x03C6;</italic> &#x007B;116&#x007D;, and &#x007B;029&#x007D; in decreasing order of importance. Colourless, transparent with white streak. Isotropic with <italic>n</italic><sub>D</sub> 2&#x00B7;192. le, almost sectile, withc onchoidal fracture. H = 3. Turns pale lavender in strong light. Low M.P. B.P. Decomposes in acids and warm NH<sub>4</sub>OH. Bideauxite is an oxide zone mineral found with leadhillite, matlockite, and anglesite. May alter to cerussite.</p></abstract>
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