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Mindat Short Description

Magnesioferrite-Magnetite Series.

Strongly magnetic. Visually indistinguishable from magnetite and other dark spinel-group species.

Geoscience Ontology Status Notes

Originally named magnoferrit: Rammelsberg C (1859) Ueber den sogenannten octaëdrischen Eisenglanz vom Vesuv, und über die Bildung von Magneteisen durch Sublimation, Annalen der Physik und Chemie 107, 451-454

IMA Formula (from Mindat)

MgFe³⁺₂O₄

RRUFF Formula (from Geoscience Ontology)

MgFe³⁺₂O₄

Additional References

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

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