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Name: Rutherfordine RRUFF ID: R110154 Ideal Chemistry: (UO2)(CO3) Locality: Shinkolobwe mine, Zaire Source: Luiz Menezes, from Vincent Bourgoin [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Pale yellow bladed crystals associated with orange wölsendorfite Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. |
Quick search: [ All Rutherfordine samples (4) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R110154.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 4.830(1)Å b: 9.184(2)Å c: 4.290(1)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 190.29(8)Å3 Crystal System: orthorhombic |
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REFERENCES for Rutherfordine | |
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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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Marckwald W (1906) Ueber Uranerze aus Deutsch-Ostafrika, Zentralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie, 1906, 761-763 [view file] |
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Frondel C, Meyrowitz R (1956) Studies of uranium minerals (XIX): rutherfordine, diderichite, and clarkeite, American Mineralogist, 41, 127-133 [view file] |
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International Mineralogical Association (1962) International Mineralogical Association: Commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Magazine, 33, 260-263 [view file] |
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International Mineralogical Association (1980) International Mineralogical Association: Commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Magazine, 43, 1053-1055 [view file] |
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Finch R J, Cooper M A, Hawthorne F C, Ewing R C (1999) Refinement of the crystal structure of rutherfordine, The Canadian Mineralogist, 37, 929-938 [view file] |
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Kubatko K-A, Helean K B, Navrotsky A, Burns P C (2005) Thermodynamics of uranyl minerals: enthalpies of formation of rutherfordine, UO2CO3, andersonite, Na2CaUO2(CO3)3(H2O)5, and grimselite, K3NaUO2(CO3)3H2O, American Mineralogist, 90, 1284-1290 [view file] |
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