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Monazite-(La) R070263

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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) ]
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample; 785 spectrum overwhelmed by fluorescence
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RRUFF ID: R070263
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample; 785 spectrum overwhelmed by fluorescence
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW
REFERENCES for Monazite-(La)

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]

Borovsky I B, Gerasimovsky V I (1945) Rare earths in minerals, Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences de l'URSS, 49, 353-356   [view file]

Claringbull G F (1953) Mineralogical Society (London), American Mineralogist, 38, 734-737   [view file]

Levinson A A (1966) A system of nomenclature for rare-earth minerals, American Mineralogist, 51, 152-158   [view file]

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]

Petruk W, Owens D R (1975) Monazite from the Mount Pleasant deposit, New Brunswick, The Canadian Mineralogist, 13, 298-299   [view file]

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]

Ni Y, Hughes J M, Mariano A N (1995) Crystal chemistry of the monazite and xenotime structures, American Mineralogist, 80, 21-26   [view file]

Pan Y (1997) Zircon- and monazite-forming metamorphic reactions at Manitouwadge, Ontario, The Canadian Mineralogist, 35, 105-118   [view file]

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]

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

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

Linthout K (2007) Tripartite division of the system 2REEPO4—CaTh(PO4)2—2ThSiO4, 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]

Abe T, Kuribayashi T, Nakamura M (2017) Infrared spectroscopic study of OH defects in monazite, European Journal of Mineralogy, 29, 949-957

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

Trail D (2018) Redox-controlled dissolution of monazite in fluids and implications for phase stability in the lithosphere, American Mineralogist, 103, 453-461