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Name: Lamprophyllite RRUFF ID: R130420 Ideal Chemistry: (SrNa)Ti2Na3Ti(Si2O7)2O2(OH)2 Locality: Pocos de Caldas Plateau, Minas Gerais, Brazil Source: Gunnar Farber [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: brownish-orange bladed crystals Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis. |
Mineral Group: [ Lamprophyllite (9) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Lamprophyllite samples (3) ] |
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POWDER DIFFRACTION | |||||||
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RRUFF ID: | R130420.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 19.268(2)Å b: 7.0771(9)Å c: 5.3853(7)Å alpha: 90° beta: 96.793(4)° gamma: 90° Volume: 729.2(3)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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REFERENCES for Lamprophyllite | |
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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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Hackman V (1894) Petrographische Beschreibung des Nephelinsyenites vom Umptek und einiger ihn begleitenden Gesteine, Fennia, 11, 101-196 [view file] |
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Saf'yanov Y N, Vasil'eva N O, Golovachev V P, Kuz'min É A, Belov N V (1983) The crystal structure of lamprophyllite, Soviet Physics - Doklady, 28, 207-209 |
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Saf'yanov Y N , Vasil'eva N O, Golovachev V P, Kuz'min E A, and Belov N V (1983) The crystal structure of lamprophyllite, Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, 269, 117-120 [view file] |
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Rastsvetaeva R K, Dorfman M D (1995) Crystal structure of Ba-lamprophyllite in the isomorphous lamprophyllitebaritolamprophyllite series, Crystallography Reports, 40, 1026-1029 |
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Zaitsev V A, Kogarko L N (2002) Compositions of minerals of the lamprophyllite group from alkaline massifs worldwide, Geochemistry International, 40, 313-322 [view file] |
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Krivovichev S V, Armbruster T, Yakovenchuk V N, Pakhomovsky Y A, Men'shikov Y P (2003) Crystal structures of lamprophyllite-2M and lamprophyllite-2O from the Lovozero alkaline massif, Kola peninsula, Russia, European Journal of Mineralogy, 15, 711-718 |
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Azarova Y V (2004) Genesis and typochemism of lamprophyllite - barytolamprophyllite series minerals from lujavrite-malignite complex of Khibiny massif, New Data on Minerals. Moscow, 39, 65-70 [view file] |
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Jambor J L, Roberts A C (2004) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 89, 467-471 [view file] |
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Zaĭtsev V A (2005) Numerical dependence of the unit-cell parameters of minerals of the lamprophyllite group on the cationic composition in the interlayer position, Crystallography Reports, 50, 379-381 [view file] |
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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] |
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Zaitsev V A, Kogarko L N, Senin V G (2013) Phase equilibria in the system lamprophyllite-nepheline, Geochemistry International, 51, 889-895 [view file] |
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Rastsvetaeva R K, Chukanov N V, Aksenov S M (2016) The crystal chemistry of lamprophyllite-related minerals: a review, European Journal of Mineralogy, 28, 915-930 |
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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] |
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