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Name: Parisite-(Ce) RRUFF ID: R120061 Ideal Chemistry: CaCe2(CO3)3F2 Locality: Snowbird mine, Fish Creek, Alberton, Mineral County, Montana, USA Source: Donald Doell [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Brown hexagonal prismatic crystals, associated with white quartz Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. |
Mineral Group: [ Parisite (4) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Parisite-(Ce) samples (3) ] |
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POWDER DIFFRACTION | |||||||
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RRUFF ID: | R120061.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 12.293(4)Å b: 7.106(2)Å c: 28.318(8)Å alpha: 90° beta: 98.21(2)° gamma: 90° Volume: 2448.4(7)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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REFERENCES for Parisite-(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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Bunsen R W E (1845) Ueber den Parisit, ein deues Cerfossil, Annalen der Chemie und Pharmacie, Heidelberg, 53, 147-156 [view file] |
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Penfield S L, Warren C H (1899) On the chemical composition of parisite and a new occurrence of it in Ravalli Co., Montana, American Journal of Science, 8, 21-24 [view file] |
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Flink G (1901) Part I. On the minerals from Narsarsuk on the Firth of Tunugdliarfik in Southern Greenland. Parisite, Meddelelser om Grønland, 24, 29-42 [view file] |
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Donnay G, Donnay J D H (1953) The crystallography of bastnaesite, parisite, roentgenite, and synchisite, American Mineralogist, 38, 932-963 [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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Ni Y, Hughes J M, Mariano A N, (1993) The atomic arrangement of bastnasite-(Ce), Ce(CO3)F, and structural elements of synchysite-(Ce), röntgenite-(Ce), and parisite-(Ce), American Mineralogist, 78, 415-418 [view file] |
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Jambor J L, Puziewicz J, Roberts A C (1994) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 79, 763-767 [view file] |
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Ni Y, Post J E, Hughes J M (2000) The crystal structure of parisite-(Ce), Ce2CaF2(CO3)3, American Mineralogist, 85, 251-258 [view file] |
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Meng D, Wu X, Mou T, Li D (2001) Microstructural investigation of new polytypes of parisite-(Ce) by high-resolution transmission electron microscopy, The Canadian Mineralogist, 39, 1713-1724 [view file] |
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Jambor J L, Roberts A C (2002) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 87, 996-999 [view file] |
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Frost R L, Dickfos M J (2007) Raman spectroscopy of halogen-containing carbonates, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 38, 1516-1522 |
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Guastoni A, Nestola F, Giaretta A (2009) Mineral chemistry and alteration of rare earth element (REE) carbonates from alkaline pegmatites of Mount Malosa, Malawi, American Mineralogist, 94, 1216-1222 [view file] |
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Turner D J, Rivard B, Groat L A (2014) Visible and short-wave infrared reflectance spectroscopy of REE fluorocarbonates, American Mineralogist, 99, 1335-1346 |
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Giebel R J, Gauert C D K, Marks M A W, Costin G, Markl G (2017) Multi-stage formation of REE minerals in the Palabora Carbonatite Complex, South Africa, American Mineralogist, 102, 1218-1233 |
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Capitani G (2019) HRTEM investigation of bastnäsite-parisite intergrowths from Mount Malosa (Malawi): ordered sequences, polysomatic faults, polytypic disorder, and a new parisite-(Ce) polymorph, European Journal of Mineralogy, 31, 429-442 |
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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 |
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Conconi R, Fumagalli P, Capitani G (2023) A multi-methodological study of the bastnäsite-synchysite polysomatic series: Tips and tricks of polysome identification and the origin of syntactic intergrowths, American Mineralogist, 108, 1658-1668 |
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