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shattuckite Min.|ˈʃætəkaɪt| [f. the name Shattuck (see quot. 1915) + -ite1.] A hydrated silicate of copper found as pale blue orthorhombic crystals.
1915W. T. Schaller in Jrnl. Washington Acad. Sci. V. 7 Shattuckite is a blue hydrous copper silicate from the Shattuck Arizona Copper Company's mine at Bisbee, Arizona... Shattuckite forms pseudomorphs after malachite and also occurs as small spherulites. 1928Mineral. Abstr. III. 485 Scalenohedra..of calcite from Tantara mine, Katanga, are completely changed to dioptase or to a mixture of deep-blue pleochroic shattuckite and pale-blue non-pleochroic plancheite. 1977Amer. Mineralogist LXII. 491 The crystal structure of shattuckite, Cu5 (SiO3)4(OH)2 has been refined in the orthorhombic space group Pcab. |