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Name: Manganbabingtonite RRUFF ID: R140743 Ideal Chemistry: Ca2Mn2+Fe3+Si5O14(OH) Locality: Iron Cap mine, Aravaipa District, Graham County, Arizona, USA Source: Rock Currier [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Short prismatic dark-greenish crystals, associated with small needle hedenbergite crystals. Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis. |
Mineral Group: [ Rhodonite (16) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R140743.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 7.478(2)Å b: 11.640(3)Å c: 6.692(2)Å alpha: 91.68(2)° beta: 93.96(2)° gamma: 104.49(2)° Volume: 562.0(2)Å3 Crystal System: triclinic |
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REFERENCES for Manganbabingtonite | |
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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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Gossner B, Mussgnug F (1928) Über die systematische Stellung von Neptunit und Babingtonit, Centralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie, 1928, 274-281 |
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Richmond Jr. W E (1937) On babingtonite, American Mineralogist, 22, 630-642 |
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Vinogradova R A, Sychkova V A, Kabalov Y K (1966) Manganiferous babingtonite from the Rudnyi Kaskad deposit, Eastern Sayan, Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, 169, 434-437 [view file] |
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Vinogradova R A, Plyusinna I N (1967) Composition, properties, and crystallochemical features of minerals of the isomorphous series ferrobabingtonite-manganbabingtonite, Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta, Geologiya, 4, 54-67 [view file] |
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Fleischer M (1968) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 53, 1063-1066 [view file] |
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International Mineralogical Association (1971) International Mineralogical Association: Commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Magazine, 38, 102-105 [view file] |
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Nagashima M, Mitani K, Akasaka M (2014) Structural variation of babingtonite depending on cation distribution at the octahedral sites, Mineralogy and Petrology, 108, 287-301 |
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