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|   |   | Name: Mattheddleite RRUFF ID: R070490 Ideal Chemistry: Pb5(SiO4)1.5(SO4)1.5Cl Locality: Dry Smale Gill, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria (Cumberland), England, United Kingdom Source: Bob Jenkins [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Radial aggregates of colorless hexagonal prisms associated with elongated bladed striated blue-green caledonite and creamy yellow barite 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: | R070490.9 | ||||||
| Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
| Cell Refinement Output: | a: 9.936(3)Å    b: 9.936(3)Å    c: 7.485(2)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 120° Volume: 633.9(3)Å3 Crystal System: hexagonal | ||||||
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| REFERENCES for Mattheddleite | |
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| American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record] | |
| 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] | |
| Livingstone A, Ryback G, Fejer E E, Stanley C J (1987) Mattheddleite, a new mineral of the apatite group from Leadhills, Strathclyde region, Scottish Journal of Geology, 23, 1-8 [view file] | |
| Jambor J L, Bladh K W, Ercit T S, Grice J D, Grew E S (1988) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 73, 927-935 [view file] | |
| Steele I M, Pluth J J, Livingstone A (2000) Crystal structure of mattheddleite: a Pb, S, Si phase with the apatite structure, Mineralogical Magazine, 64, 915-921 [view file] | |
| Essene E J, Henderson C E, Livingstone A (2006) The missing sulphur in mattheddleite, sulphur analysis of sulphates, and paragenetic relations at Leadhills, Scotland, Mineralogical Magazine, 70, 265-280 [view file] | |
| 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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