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    Goethite is an iron oxide mineral with an orthorhombic crystal structure. It commonly forms prismatic crystals that are striated along the c-axis or tabular crystals forming on the {010} plane. It also forms fibrous, botryoidal, or stalactitic masses. Goethite is a common weathering product that forms in oxygenated environments from the oxidation of iron-bearing minerals. It is also a primary mineral that precipitates from hydrothermal fluids, marine environments, and bogs.

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    Goethite is an iron oxide mineral with an orthorhombic crystal structure. It commonly forms prismatic crystals that are striated along the c-axis or tabular crystals forming on the {010} plane. It also forms fibrous, botryoidal, or stalactitic masses. Goethite is a common weathering product that forms in oxygenated environments from the oxidation of iron-bearing minerals. It is also a primary mineral that precipitates from hydrothermal fluids, marine environments, and bogs.

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    Goethite is an iron oxide mineral with an orthorhombic crystal structure. It commonly forms prismatic crystals that are striated along the c-axis or tabular crystals forming on the {010} plane. It also forms fibrous, botryoidal, or stalactitic masses. Goethite is a common weathering product that forms in oxygenated environments from the oxidation of iron-bearing minerals. It is also a primary mineral that precipitates from hydrothermal fluids, marine environments, and bogs.

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    Goethite α–Fe3+ O(OH)

    c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1

    Crystal Data: Orthorhombic. Point Group: 2/m2/m2/m. As prismatic crystals, striated


    k [001], to 45 cm, or tabular on {010}. More commonly as aggregates of capillary to acicular
    crystals, in divergent sprays, or reniform, botryoidal, or stalactitic masses with concentric or radial
    fibrous internal structure; nearly cryptocrystalline in “limonite”.
    Physical Properties: Cleavage: {010}, perfect; {100}, less perfect. Fracture: Uneven.
    Tenacity: Brittle. Hardness = 5–5.5 VHN = 667 (100 g load). D(meas.) = 4.28(1)
    D(calc.) = 4.18
    Optical Properties: Opaque, transparent on thin edges. Color: Blackish brown; yellowish
    to reddish brown in massive aggregates, may be banded; shades of yellow in thin section; gray
    with bluish tint in reflected light, with yellow, red, brown internal reflections. Streak: Brownish
    yellow, yellow-orange, ocher-yellow. Luster: Imperfect adamantine metallic to dull earthy; silky
    when fibrous.
    Optical Class: Biaxial (–); uniaxial (–) for red light. Pleochroism: Strong; X = yellow to
    colorless; Y = yellow-brown, reddish orange; Z = yellow-orange, deep reddish orange. Orientation:
    X = b; Y = c; Z = a. Dispersion: r > v, extreme. Absorption: Z > Y > X. α = 2.260–2.275
    β = 2.393–2.409 γ = 2.398–2.515 2V(meas.) = 0◦ –27◦ Anisotropism: Distinct; in bluish grays.
    R1 –R2 : (400) 17.5–19.2, (420) 16.7–18.3, (440) 15.9–17.4, (460) 15.2–16.7, (480) 14.6–16.0, (500)
    14.1–15.5, (520) 13.7–15.0, (540) 13.3–14.6, (560) 13.0–14.3, (580) 12.8–14.0, (600) 12.5–13.7, (620)
    12.4–13.5, (640) 12.2–13.4, (660) 12.0–13.2, (680) 12.0–13.1, (700) 11.9–13.0
    Cell Data: Space Group: P bnm. a = 4.608 b = 9.956 c = 3.0215 Z=4
    X-ray Powder Pattern: Hindlow quarry, Derbyshire, England.
    4.183 (100), 2.450 (50), 2.693 (35), 1.7192 (20), 2.190 (18), 2.253 (14), 4.98 (12)
    Chemistry: (1) (2)
    SiO2 0.36
    Fe2 O3 89.65 89.86
    H2 O 10.19 10.14
    Total 100.20 100.00
    (1) El Paso Co., Colorado, USA. (2) FeO(OH).
    Polymorphism & Series: Trimorphous with feroxyhyte and lepidocrocite.
    Occurrence: A common weathering product derived from numerous iron-bearing minerals in
    oxygenated environments; an important component of ore in weathered iron deposits. Also a
    primary precipitate in hydrothermal, marine, and bog environments upon oxidation of reduced
    iron-bearing waters.
    Association: Lepidocrocite, hematite, pyrite, siderite, pyrolusite, manganite, many other iron-
    and manganese-bearing species.
    Distribution: Widespread; some localities for good crystals include: from Siegen, North
    Rhine-Westphalia, and near Giessen, Hesse, Germany. At Přı́bram, Czech Republic. Exceptional
    crystals from the Restormel mine, Lanlivery; the Botallack mine, St. Just; and elsewhere in
    Cornwall, England. From Chaillac, Indre-et-Loire, France. In the USA, from the Pikes Peak
    district and Florissant, El Paso Co., Colorado; an ore mineral in the Lake Superior district, as at
    the Jackson mine, Negaunee, and the Superior mine, Marquette, Marquette Co., Michigan.
    Name: Honors the German poet, dramatist, and philosopher, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    (1749–1832).
    References: (1) Palache, C., H. Berman, and C. Frondel (1944) Dana’s system of mineralogy,
    (7th edition), v. I, 680–687. (2) Deer, W.A., R.A. Howie, and J. Zussman (1962) Rock-forming
    minerals, v. 5, non-silicates, 118–121. (3) Harrison, R.K., N. Aitkenhead, B.R. Young, and P.F.
    Dagger (1975) Goethite from Hindlow, Derbyshire. Bull. Geol. Surv. Great Britain, 52, 51–54.
    (4) Ramdohr, P. (1980) The ore minerals and their intergrowths, (4th edition), 1071–1076.
    All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in
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    permission of Mineral Data Publishing.

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