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Mindat Short Description

The most common simple iron oxide mineral. A weathering product of numerous iron-bearing minerals.

Goethite may crystallize from a precursor - a not approved species called 'proto-goethite'. May also form due to mineralization of lichen (Parmelia co...

Geoscience Ontology Status Notes

Lenz J G (1806) Göthit. in Tabellen über das gesammte Mineralreich, Göpferdts (Jena) 46-46

IMA Formula (from Mindat)

FeO(OH)

RRUFF Formula (from Geoscience Ontology)

Fe³⁺O(OH)

Additional References

• http://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/goethite.pdf

• http://www.webmineral.com/data/Goethite.shtml