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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.1978.042.321.20</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title>Manganhumite, a New Species</article-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Moore</surname>
<given-names>Paul Brian</given-names>
</name>
<aff>Department of the Geophysical Sciences, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, U.S.A.</aff></contrib></contrib-group>
<pub-date pub-type="ppub">
<month>3</month>
<year>1978</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>42</volume>
<issue>321</issue>
<fpage>133</fpage>
<lpage>136</lpage>
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<date date-type="received">
<day>5</day>
<month>4</month>
<year>1977</year>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 1978, The Mineralogical Society</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>1978</copyright-year>
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<title>Summary</title>
<p>Manganhumite, orthorhombic, <italic>a</italic> 10&#x00B7;54(1), <italic>b</italic> 21&#x00B7;45(2), <italic>c</italic> 4&#x00B7;822(9) &#x00C5;, space group Pnma, Z = 4, (Mn<sub>0&#x00B7;68</sub>Mg<sub>0&#x00B7;30</sub>Fe<sub>0&#x00B7;01</sub>Ca<sub>0&#x00B7;01</sub>)<sub>7</sub>(OH)<sub>2</sub>(SiO<sub>4</sub>)<sub>3</sub>, is the manganese analogue of humite whose type locality is the Brattfors mine, Nordmark, Province of V&#x00E4;rmland, Sweden. It is a skarn assemblage mineral and occurs with katoptrite, manganostibite, magnussonite, galaxite, etc., which replace manganosite grains in magnetite-manganosite ore.</p>
<p>The mineral is biaxial (+), <italic>&#x03B1;</italic> = 1&#x00B7;707(3), <italic>&#x03B2;</italic> = 1&#x00B7;712(3), 7 = 1&#x00B7;732(3), 2V<sub>7</sub>(obs.) = 37(4)&#x00B0; <italic>r</italic> &#x003E; <italic>v</italic> perceptible, cleavage &#x007B;010&#x007D; perfect, hardness = 4, specific gravity = 3&#x00B7;83(5). The five strongest powder lines are 1&#x00B7;777(10), 2&#x00B7;500(7), 3&#x00B7;371(6), 2&#x00B7;628(6), and 1&#x00B7;525(6).</p></abstract>
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