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Name: Tundrite-(Ce) RRUFF ID: R130563 Ideal Chemistry: Na2Ce2TiO2(SiO4)(CO3)2 Locality: Poudrette quarry, Mount St. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada Source: Don Doell [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Yellow bladed crystals, associated with white orthoclase Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by single crystal X-ray diffraction. |
Mineral Group: [ Tundrite (4) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Tundrite-(Ce) samples (3) ] |
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POWDER DIFFRACTION | |||||||
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RRUFF ID: | R130563.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 7.572(2)Å b: 13.938(3)Å c: 5.0291(8)Å alpha: 99.91(1)° beta: 70.83(1)° gamma: 100.92(1)° Volume: 488.7(1)Å3 Crystal System: triclinic |
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REFERENCES for Tundrite-(Ce) | |
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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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Fleischer M (1962) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 47, 414-420 [view file] |
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Semenov E I (1963) Mineralogy of the rare earths, Izdatelstvo Akadamie Nauk SSSR, Moscow, 209-210 [view file] |
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Fleischer M (1965) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 50, 2096-2111 [view file] |
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Semenov E I, Kazakova M E, Aleksandrova R A (1967) The Lovozero minerals - nenadkevichite, gerassimovskite and tundrite - from Ilímaussaq, South Greenland, Meddelelser om Grønland, 181, 3-11 |
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Fleischer M (1968) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 53, 1775-1780 [view file] |
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International Mineralogical Association (1968) International Mineralogical Association: Commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Magazine, 36, 1143-1145 [view file] |
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Fleischer M (1974) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 59, 632-633 [view file] |
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Shumyatskaya N G, Voronkov A A, Ilyukhin V V, Belov N V (1976) Tundrite, Na2Ce2TiO2[SiO4](CO3)2 - refinement of the crystal structure and chemical formula, Soviet Physics - Crystallography, 21, 399-405 [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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Grice J D, Rowe R, Poirier G, Wight Q (2008) Tundrite-(Ce) from Mount Saint-Hilaire, Quebec: Crystal-structure analysis and species characterization, The Canadian Mineralogist, 46, 413-422 [view file] |
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Piilonen P C, Poirier G, Tait K T (2008) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 93, 1941-1946 [view file] |
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