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Name: Hilgardite RRUFF ID: R070426 Ideal Chemistry: Ca2B5O9Cl·H2O Locality: Boulby mine, Loftus, Cleveland, England, UK Source: Michael Scott S102875 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Pink to orange poorly formed crystals scattered over a pale green boracite matrix, polytype 1A Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis. |
Mineral Group: [ Hilgardite (2) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Hilgardite samples (2) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R070426.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 6.454(1)Å b: 6.561(1)Å c: 6.293(1)Å alpha: 61.567(9)° beta: 118.728(9)° gamma: 105.85(1)° Volume: 205.20(7)Å3 Crystal System: triclinic |
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REFERENCES for Hilgardite | |
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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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Hurlbut C S, Taylor R E (1937) Hilgardite, a new mineral species from Choctaw Salt Dome, Louisiana, American Mineralogist, 22, 1052-1057 [view file] |
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Kondrat'eva V V (1964) X-ray diffraction studies of some minerals of the hilgardite group, Rentgenografia Mineral'nogo Syr'ia, Moscow ('Nedra'), 4, 10-18 [view file] |
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Bailey S W (1977) Report of the I.M.A-I.U.Cr. Joint Committee on Nomenclature, American Mineralogist, 62, 411-415 [view file] |
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Rumanova I M, Iorysh Z I, Belov N V (1977) Crystal structure of triclinic chilgardite Ca2[B5O9]Cl·H2O = Ca2[B3±B2ΔO9]Cl·H2O, Soviet Physics - Doklady, 22, 460-462 [view file] |
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Ghose S (1985) A new nomenclature for the borate minerals in the hilgardite (Ca2B5O9Cl·H2O) - tyretskite (Ca2B5O9OH·H2O) group, American Mineralogist, 70, 636-637 [view file] |
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Nickel E H (1993) Standardization of polytype suffixes, Mineralogical Magazine, 57, 756-756 [view file] |
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Burns P C, Hawthorne F C (1994) Refinement of the structure of hilgardite-1A, Acta Crystallographica, C50, 653-655 |
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Grice J D, Gault R A, Van Velthuizen J (2005) Borate minerals of the Penobsquis and Millstream deposits, southern New Brunswick, Canada, The Canadian Mineralogist, 43, 1469-1487 [view file] |
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Grice J D, Rowe R (2014) Hilgardite polytype distribution in Sussex, New Brunswick evaporite deposits, Mineralogical Magazine, 78, 235-252 |
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