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Name: Britholite-(Ce) RRUFF ID: R130281 Ideal Chemistry: (Ce,Ca)5(SiO4)3(OH) Locality: Oka complex, Oka, Deux-Montagnes RCM, Laurentides, Québec, Canada Source: Rock Currier [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Adamantine yellow-brown massive crystals, associated with phlogopite Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by single crystal X-ray diffraction. |
Mineral Group: [ Apatite (56) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R130281.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 9.402(1)Å b: 9.4024(9)_Å c: 6.9005(7)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 119.992(5)° Volume: 528.32(9)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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REFERENCES for Britholite-(Ce) | |
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American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record] |
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Anthony J W, Bideaux R A, Bladh K W, and Nichols M C (1990) Handbook of Mineralogy, Mineral Data Publishing, Tucson Arizona, USA, by permission of the Mineralogical Society of America. [view file] |
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Winther C (1901) Britholite, a new mineral, Meddelelser om Grønland, 24, 190-196 [view file] |
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Fleischer M (1961) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 46, 1513-1520 [view file] |
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Levinson A A (1966) A system of nomenclature for rare-earth minerals, American Mineralogist, 51, 152-158 [view file] |
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Nickel E H, Mandarino J A (1987) Procedures involving the IMA Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names and guidelines on mineral nomenclature, American Mineralogist, 72, 1031-1042 [view file] |
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Noe D C, Hughes J M, Mariano A N, Drexler J W, Kato A (1993) The crystal structure of monoclinic britholite-(Ce) and britholite-(Y), Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 206, 233-246 [view file] |
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Jambor J L, Roberts A C, Puziewicz J (1994) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 79, 570-574 [view file] |
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Arden K M, Halden N M (1999) Crystallization and alteration history of britholite in rare-earth-element-enriched pegmatitic segregations associated with the Eden Lake Complex, Manitoba, Canada, The Canadian Mineralogist, 37, 1239-1253 [view file] |
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Oberti R, Ottolini L, della Ventura G, Parodi G C (2001) On the symmetry and crystal chemistry of britholite: new structural and microanalytical data, American Mineralogist, 86, 1066-1075 [view file] |
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Ripp G S, Karmanov N S, Kanakin S V, Doroshkevich A G, Andreev G V (2005) Cerium britolite from Mushugai ore deposit (Mongolia), Zapiski Rossiiskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchetstva, 134, issue 2 90-103 [view file] |
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Pasero M, Kampf A R, Ferraris C, Pekov I V, Rakovan J R, White T J (2010) Nomenclature of the apatite supergroup minerals, European Journal of Mineralogy, 22, 163-179 [view file] |
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Vilalva F C J, Vlach S R F, Simonetti A (2013) Nacareniobsite-(Ce) and britholite-(Ce) in peralkaline granites from the Morro Redondo Complex, Graciosa Province, Southern Brazil: Occurrence and compositional data, The Canadian Mineralogist, 51, 313-332 |
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Karup-Møller S, Rose-Hansen J (2017) Alteration of steenstrupine-(Ce) from the Ilímaussaq alkaline complex, South Greenland, European Journal of Mineralogy, 29, 871-887 |
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