Rinkite-(Ce) R050229
Name: Rinkite-(Ce)
RRUFF ID: R050229
Ideal Chemistry: (Ca3REE)Na(NaCa)Ti(Si2O7)2(OF)F2
Locality: Kipawa alkaline complex, near Sheffield Lake, Villedieu Township, Temiscamingue County, Quebec, Canada
Source: Marcus Origlieri
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Aggregate of coarsely crystalline yellowish-gray crystals associated with red eudialyte R050230
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction.
Mineral Group: [ Mosandrite (2) ]
CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R050229.2
Sample Description: Microprobe Fragment
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample, 780nm spectrum is overwhelmed by fluorescence
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RRUFF ID: R050229
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample, 780nm spectrum is overwhelmed by fluorescence
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW
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INFRARED SPECTRUM (Attenuated Total Reflectance) 
RRUFF ID: R050229.1
Sample Description: Powder
Instrument settings: SensIR Durascope on a Nicolet Magna 860 FTIR
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Sample Description: Powder
Instrument settings: PIKE GladiATR - Far-IR on a Nicolet Magna 860 FTIR
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POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R050229.1
Sample Description: Powder
Cell Refinement Output: a: 7.3936(1)Å    b: 5.6363(1)Å    c: 18.7596(9)Å
alpha: 90.°    beta: 101.39(1)°    gamma: 90.°   Volume: 766.36(3)Å3    Crystal System: monoclinic
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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Rinkite-(Ce)

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]

Lorenzen J (1884) Untersuchung einiger Mineralien aus Kangerdluarsuk in Grönland, Zeitschrift für Krystallographie und Mineralogie, 9, 243-254   [view file]

Slepnev Yu S (1957) On the minerals of the rinkite group, Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, 1957, issue 3 63-75   [view file]

Fleischer M (1958) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 43, 790-798   [view file]

Simonov V I, Belov N V (1967) Characteristics of the crystal structure of rinkite, Soviet Physics - Crystallography, 12, 740-744   [view file]

Galli E, Alberti A (1971) The crystal structure of rinkite, Acta Crystallographica, B27, 1277-1284

Petersen O V, Rønsbo J G, Leonardsen E S (1989) Nacareniobsite-(Ce), a new mineral species from the Ilímaussaq alkaline complex, South Greenland, and its relation to mosandrite and the rinkite series, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1989, 84-96

Rastsvetaeva R K, Borutskii B E, Shlyukova Z V (1991) Crystal structure of Hibbing rinkite, Soviet Physics - Crystallography, 36, 349-351   [view file]

Jambor J L (1992) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 77, 670-675   [view file]

Sokolova E (2006) From structure topology to chemical composition. I. Structural hierarchy and stereochemistry in titanium disilicate minerals, The Canadian Mineralogist, 44, 1273-1330   [view file]

Bellezza M, Merlino S, Perchiazzi N, Raade G (2009) «Johnstrupite»: a chemical and structural study, Atti della Società Toscana di Scienze Naturali, Memorie, Serie A, 114, 1-3

Bellezza M, Merlino S, Perchiazzi N (2009) Mosandrite: Structural and crystal-chemical relationships with rinkite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 47, 897-908   [view file]

Cámara F, Sokolova E, Hawthorne F C (2011) From structure topology to chemical composition. XII. Titanium silicates: the crystal chemistry of rinkite, Na2Ca4REETi(Si2O7)2OF3, Mineralogical Magazine, 75, 2755-2774   [view file]

Biagioni C, Merlino S, Parodi G C, Perchiazzi N (2012) Crystal chemistry of minerals of the wöhlerite group from the Los Archipelago, Guinea, The Canadian Mineralogist, 50, 593-609   [view file]

Chakrabarty A, Mitchell R H, Ren M, Sen A K, Pruseth K L (2013) Rinkite, cerianite-(Ce), and hingganite-(Ce) in syenite gneisses from the Sushina Hill Complex, India: occurrence, compositional data and petrogenetic significance, Mineralogical Magazine, 77, 3137-3153   [view file]

Hålenius U, Hatert F, Pasero M, Mills S J (2016) IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) Newsletter 33. New minerals and nomenclature modifications approved in 2016, Mineralogical Magazine, 80, 1135-1144   [view file]

Sokolova E, Cámara F (2017) The seidozerite supergroup of TS-block minerals: nomenclature and classification, with change of the following names: rinkite to rinkite-(Ce), mosandrite to mosandrite-(Ce), hainite to hainite-(Y) and innelite-1T to innelite-1A, Mineralogical Magazine, 81, 1457-1487   [view file]

Wu B, Wen H J, Bonnetti C, Wang R C, Yang J H, Wu F Y (2019) Rinkite-(Ce) in the nepheline syenite pegmatite from the Saima alkaline complex, northeastern China: its occurrence, alteration, and implications for REE mineralization, 57, 903-924

Borst A M, Finch A A, Friis H, Horsburgh N J, Gamaletsos P N, Goettlicher J, Steininger R, Geraki K (2020) Structural state of rare earth elements in eudialyte-group minerals, Mineralogical Magazine, 84, 19-34