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Name: Rhönite RRUFF ID: R060316 Ideal Chemistry: Ca4[Mg8Fe3+2Ti2]O4[Si6Al6O36] Locality: Nickenicher Sattel, Laacher See District, Eifel, Germany Source: Michael Scott S100202 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Brown bladed crystals Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis. |
| Mineral Group: [ Sapphirine (12) ] | ||
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| RRUFF ID: | R060316.9 | ||||||
| Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
| Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 10.380(3)Å b: 10.765(3)Å c: 8.882(3)Å alpha: 105.95(2)° beta: 96.00(2)° gamma: 124.83(2)° Volume: 739.0(2)Å3 Crystal System: triclinic |
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| REFERENCES for Rhönite | |
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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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Soellner J (1907) Ueber Rhönit, ein neues änigmatitähnliches Mineral und über das Vorkommen und die Verbreitung desselben in basaltischen Gesteinen, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Palaontologie, 24, 475-547 [view file] |
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Cameron K L (1970) Rhönite from Big Bend National Park, Texas, American Mineralogist, 55, 864-874 [view file] |
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Stout J H, Johnston A D (1985) Compositional variation of naturally occurring rhoenite, American Mineralogist, 70, 1211-1216 [view file] |
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Bonaccorsi E, Merlino S, Pasero M (1990) Rhönite: structural and microstructural features, crystal chemistry and polysomatic relationships, European Journal of Mineralogy, 2, 203-218 |
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Jambor J L, Puziewicz J (1991) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 76, 665-671 [view file] |
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Burt D M (1994) Vector representation of some mineral compositions in the aenigmatite group, with special reference to hogtuvaite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 32, 449-457 [view file] |
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Jensen B B (1996) Solid solution among members of the aenigmatite group, Mineralogical Magazine, 60, 982-986 [view file] |
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Kunzmann T (1999) The aenigmatite-rhönite mineral group, European Journal of Mineralogy, 11, 743-756 [view file] |
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Grew E S, Hålenius U, Pasero M, Barbier J (2008) Recommended nomenclature for the sapphirine and surinamite group (sapphirine supergroup), Mineralogical Magazine, 72, 839-876 [view file] |
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Treiman A H (2008) Rhönite in Luna 24 pyroxenes: First find from the Moon, and implications for volatiles in planetary magmas, American Mineralogist, 93, 488-491 [view file] |
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Peretyazhko I S, Savina E A, Khromova E A (2017) Minerals of the rhönite-kuratite series in paralavas from a new combustion metamorphic complex in the Choir-Nyalga basin (Central Mongolia): composition, mineral assemblages and formation conditions, Mineralogical Magazine, 81, 949-974 |
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Kong F, Schertl H, Zhao L, Li X, Liu X (2020) Rhönite in Cenozoic alkali basalt from Changle, Shandong Province, China, and its significance, European Journal of Mineralogy, 32, 325-346 |
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