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Name: Hydroxykenomicrolite RRUFF ID: R061058 Ideal Chemistry: (◻,Na,Sb3+)2Ta2O6(OH) Locality: Mt. Vasin-Myl'k, Voron'ya Tundra, Russia Source: Michael Scott S100986 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Grayish adamantine grains (orange under long wave ultraviolet light) intimately associated with simpsonite (bluish white in SW UV). Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. |
Mineral Groups: [ pyrochlore (28) ] [ microlite (15) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R061058.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 10.520(7)Å b: 10.520(7)Å c: 10.520(7)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 1164.3(4)Å3 Crystal System: cubic |
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REFERENCES for Hydroxykenomicrolite | |
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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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Voloshin A V, Men´shikov Y P, Pakhomovsky Y A, Polezhaeva L I (1981) Cesstibtantite, (Cs,Na)SbTa4O12, a new mineral from granitic pegmatites, Zapiski Vsesoyuznogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva, 110, issue 3 345-351 [view file] |
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Fleischer M, Burns R G, Cabri L J, Francis C A, Pabst A (1982) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 67, 413-418 [view file] |
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Hawthorne F C, Jambor J L, Bladh K W, Burke E A J, Grice J D, Phillips D, Roberts A C, Schedler R A, Shigley J E (1987) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 72, 1023-1028 [view file] |
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Ercit T S, Černý P, Hawthorne F C (1993) Cesstibtantite - a geologic introduction to the inverse pyrochlores, Mineralogy and Petrology, 48, 235-255 |
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Smeds S A, Černý P, Chapman R (1999) Niobian calciotantite and plumboan-stannoan cesstibtantite from the Island of Utö, Stockholm Archipelago, Sweden, The Canadian Mineralogist, 37, 665-672 [view file] |
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Atencio D, Andrade M B, Christy A G, Gieré R, Kartashov P M (2010) The pyrochlore supergroup of minerals: nomenclature, The Canadian Mineralogist, 48, 673-698 [view file] |
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