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Name: Manganoneptunite RRUFF ID: R060901 Ideal Chemistry: KNa2LiMn2+2Ti2Si8O24 Locality: Mont St. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada Source: Royal Ontario Museum M52451 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Dark reddish-brown single crystal cleavage fragment. Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis |
Mineral Group: [ Neptunite (4) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Manganoneptunite samples (2) ] |
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POWDER DIFFRACTION | ||||||||
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RRUFF ID: | R060901.1 | |||||||
Sample Description: | Powder | |||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 16.4671(5)Å b: 12.523(1)Å c: 10.0245(8)Å alpha: 90° beta: 115.439(3)° gamma: 90° Volume: 1866.8(1)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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REFERENCES for Manganoneptunite | |
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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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Fersman A E (1923) The Chibina Massiv of Kola Island, Transactions of the Northern Scientific and Economic Expedition, 16, 16–73 [view file] |
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Kurbatov S M (1923) Analyse d'une neptounite manganifère des Monts Chibines en Laponie russe, Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences de Russie, 1, 59-60 [view file] |
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Fersman A E (1926) Minerals of the Kola Peninsula, American Mineralogist, 11, 289-299 [view file] |
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Foshag W F, Schairer J F (1927) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 12, 95-98 [view file] |
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Borisov S V, Klevtsova R F, Bakakin V V, Belov N V (1966) The crystal structure of neptunite, Soviet Physics - Crystallography, 10, 684-689 [view file] |
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Zolotarev A A, Krivovichev S V, Yakovenchuk V N (2007) Refinement of the mangan-neptunite crystal structure, Geology of Ore Deposits, 49, 835-838 [view file] |
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Zolotarev A A, Krivovichev S V, Yakovenchuk V N (2007) Refinement of the mangan-neptunite structure, Zapiski Rossiiskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchetstva, 136, issue 1 118-123 [view file] |
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Burke E A J (2008) Tidying up mineral names: an IMA-CNMNC scheme for suffixes, hyphens and diacritical marks, The Mineralogical Record, 39, 131-135 [view file] |
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