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Name: Pellyite RRUFF ID: R150078 Ideal Chemistry: Ba2CaFe2+2Si6O17 Locality: Gun Claim, Yukon Territory, Canada Source: Gunnar Farber [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Colorless tabular or prismatic crystals with conchoidal fracture, associated with suzukiite (R150039), walstromite (R150079), and bavsiite. Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. |
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RRUFF ID: | R150078.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 15.666(4)Å b: 7.143(2)Å c: 14.194(4)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 1588.2(4)Å3 Crystal System: orthorhombic |
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REFERENCES for Pellyite | |
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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 (1972) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 57, 594-598 [view file] |
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Montgomery J H, Thompson R M, Meagher E P (1972) Pellyite: a new barium silicate mineral from the Yukon Territory, The Canadian Mineralogist, 11, 444-447 [view file] |
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Fleischer M (1973) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 58, 805-807 [view file] |
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Meagher E P (1976) The atomic arrangement of pellyite: Ba2Ca(Fe,Mg)2Si6O17, American Mineralogist, 61, 67-73 [view file] |
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Pabst A, Harris J (1984) Pellyite: new localities and new data, The Canadian Mineralogist, 22, 653-658 [view file] |
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