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Name: Ixiolite-(Mn2+) RRUFF ID: R070289 Ideal Chemistry: (Ta2/3Mn2+1/3)O2 Locality: Voroni Tundra, Kola Peninsula, Russia Source: Michael Scott S105141 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Semimetallic black crystal with internal brown hints, associated with quartz, spodumene and mica Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by single crystal X-ray diffraction. |
Mineral Group: [ Columbite (32) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Ixiolite-(Mn2+) samples (2) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R070289.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 4.741(1)Å b: 5.733(2)Å c: 5.142(1)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 139.8(1)Å3 Crystal System: orthorhombic |
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REFERENCES for Ixiolite-(Mn2+) | |
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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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Nordenskiöld A E (1857) Beitrag zu Finnlands Mineralogie, Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 11, 625-642 [view file] |
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Åmark K (1941) Minerals of the Varuträsk pegmatite. XXIX. An X'ray study of stanniferous columbite from Varuträsk and of the related Finnish minerals ainalite and ixiolite, Geologiska Föreningens i Stockholm Förhandlingar, 63, 295-299 [view file] |
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Fleischer M (1942) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 27, 465-466 [view file] |
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Fleischer M (1963) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 48, 209-217 [view file] |
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Nickel E H, Rowland J F, McAdam R C (1963) Ixiolite - a columbite substructure, American Mineralogist, 48, 961-979 [view file] |
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Grice J D, Černý P, Ferguson R B (1972) The Tanco pegmatite at Bernic Lake, Manitoba. II. Wodginite, tantalite, pseudo-ixiolite and related minerals, The Canadian Mineralogist, 11, 609-642 [view file] |
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Grice J D, Ferguson R B, Hawthorne F C (1976) The crystal structures of tantalite, ixiolite and wodginite from Bernic Lake, Manitoba I. Tantalite and ixiolite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 14, 540-549 [view file] |
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Wise M A, Černý P, Falster A U (1998) Scandium substitution in columbite-group minerals and ixiolite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 36, 673-680 [view file] |
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Hulsobosch N, Thomas R, Boiron M-C, Dewaele S, Muchez P (2017) Direct observation of boro-aluminosilicate melt compositions: Insights from Raman spectroscopy of melt inclusions in pegmatitic tourmaline of the Gatumba-Gitarama area (Rwanda), The Canadian Mineralogist, 55, 377-397 |
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Miyawaki R, Hatert F, Pasero M, Mills S J (2022) IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) Newsletter 68, Mineralogical Magazine, 86, 854-859 [view file] |
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Chukanov N, Pasero M, Aksenov S M, Britvin S N, Zubkova N V, Yike L, Witzke T (2023) Columbite supergroup of minerals: nomenclature and classification, Mineralogical Magazine, 87, 18-33 |
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