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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.1975.040.311.02</article-id>
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<article-title>Creaseyite, Cu<sub>2</sub>Pb<sub>2</sub>(Fe,Al)<sub>2</sub>Si<sub>5</sub>O<sub>17</sub>&#x00B7;6H<sub>2</sub>O a New Mineral from Arizona and Sonora</article-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Williams</surname>
<given-names>Sidney A.</given-names>
</name>
<aff>Phelps Dodge Corporation, Douglas, Arizona</aff></contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Bideaux</surname>
<given-names>Richard A.</given-names>
</name>
<aff>Computing Associates, Tucson, Arizona</aff></contrib></contrib-group>
<pub-date pub-type="ppub">
<month>9</month>
<year>1975</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>40</volume>
<issue>311</issue>
<fpage>227</fpage>
<lpage>231</lpage>
<history>
<date date-type="received">
<day>20</day>
<month>8</month>
<year>1974</year>
</date></history>
<copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 1975, The Mineralogical Society</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>1975</copyright-year>
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<title>Summary</title>
<p>Creaseyite was first noted in specimens from Tiger, Arizona, and was then found at Wickenburg, Arizona, and Caborca, Sonora, prior to description. It is an oxidezone mineral occurring with wulfenite, willemite, mimetite, chrysocolla, wickenburgite, and ajoite. The composition is [Cu<sub>2</sub>Pb<sub>2</sub>(Fe,Al)<sub>2</sub>Si<sub>5</sub>O<sub>17</sub>&#x00B7;6H<sub>2</sub>O]. Colour Agathia green (R.H.S. 142b) with pale streak, H = 2&#x00BD;, D<italic>meas</italic> = 4&#x00B7;1, calc. 4&#x00B7;01. Crystals are orthorhombic with <italic>a</italic> 12&#x00B7;483, <italic>b</italic> 21&#x00B7;395, <italic>c</italic> 7&#x00B7;283. <italic>Z</italic> = 4. 2V<sub>&#x03B3;</sub> 69&#x00B0; meas; &#x03B1; 1&#x00B7;737, &#x03B2; 1&#x00B7;747, &#x03B3; 1&#x00B7;768.</p></abstract>
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