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Mindat Short Description

Calcite Group. Magnesite-Siderite Series, Rhodochrosite-Siderite Series, Siderite-Smithsonite Series.

Crystals typically found as brown to tan rhombohedrons in clusters, faces often curved or composites; more often found as medium to dark brown mass...

Geoscience Ontology Status Notes

Haidinger W (1845) Zweite Klasse: Geogenide. II. Ordnung. Baryte I. Parachrosbaryt. Siderit., in Handbuch der Bestimmenden Mineralogie, Bei Braumüller and Seidel (Wien) 499-506

IMA Formula (from Mindat)

Fe(CO3)

RRUFF Formula (from Geoscience Ontology)

Fe2+CO3

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