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Name: Monazite-(La) RRUFF ID: R070263 Ideal Chemistry: La(PO4) Locality: Bear Lodge, Bear Creek placers, First Choice District (Garnet District), Granite County, Montana, USA Source: Michael Scott S105570 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Black polished surface Status: The identification of this mineral is not yet confirmed. |
Mineral Group: [ Monazite (11) ] |
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REFERENCES for Monazite-(La) | |
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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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Levinson A A (1966) A system of nomenclature for rare-earth minerals, American Mineralogist, 51, 152-158 [view file] |
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Haapala I, Ervamaa P, Löfgren A, Ojanperä P (1969) An occurrence of monazite in Puumala, Eastern Finland, Bulletin de la Commission Géologique de Findlande, 41, 117-124 [view file] |
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Petruk W, Owens D R (1975) Monazite from the Mount Pleasant deposit, New Brunswick, The Canadian Mineralogist, 13, 298-299 [view file] |
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Nickel E H, Mandarino J A (1987) Procedures involving the IMA Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names and guidelines on mineral nomenclature, American Mineralogist, 72, 1031-1042 [view file] |
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Ni Y, Hughes J M, Mariano A N (1995) Crystal chemistry of the monazite and xenotime structures, American Mineralogist, 80, 21-26 [view file] |
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Pan Y (1997) Zircon- and monazite-forming metamorphic reactions at Manitouwadge, Ontario, The Canadian Mineralogist, 35, 105-118 [view file] |
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Chakhmouradian A R, Mitchell R H (1999) Niobian ilmenite, hydroxylapatite and sulfatian monazite: alternative hosts for incompatible elements in calcite kimberlite from Internatsional'naya, Yakutia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 37, 1177-1189 [view file] |
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Kolitsch U, Götzinger M (2000) Einige Neufunde aus der Grube Clara im mittleren Schwarzwald: Eulytin, Namibit, Volborthit, Gearksutit, Spertiniit, Monazit-(La), Protasit, Sainfeldit, Cyanotrichit und Vauquelinit, Der Erzgräber, 14, 33-47 |
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Teterin Y A, Utkin I O, Melnikov I V, Lebedev A M, Teterin A Y, Ivanov K E, Nikitin A S, Vukchevich L (2000) X-ray photoelectron study of thorium silicate ThSiO4·nH2O and uranium silicate USiO4·nH2O, Journal of Structural Chemistry, 41, 965-971 |
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Linthout K (2007) Tripartite division of the system 2REEPO4CaTh(PO4)22ThSiO4, discreditation of brabantite, and recognition of cheralite as the name for members dominated by CaTh(PO4)2, The Canadian Mineralogist, 45, 503-508 [view file] |
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Abe T, Kuribayashi T, Nakamura M (2017) Infrared spectroscopic study of OH defects in monazite, European Journal of Mineralogy, 29, 949-957 |
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Seydoux-Guillaume A M, Deschanels X, Baumier C, Neumeier S, Weber W J, Peuget S (2018) Why natural monazite never becomes amorphous: Experimental evidence for alpha self-healing, American Mineralogist, 103, 824-827 |
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Trail D (2018) Redox-controlled dissolution of monazite in fluids and implications for phase stability in the lithosphere, American Mineralogist, 103, 453-461 |
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