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|   | Name: Simpsonite RRUFF ID: R050629 Ideal Chemistry: Al4Ta3O13(OH) Locality: Equador, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil Source: Gemological Center Owner: RRUFF Description: Yellow fragment Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis | |
| Quick search: [ All Simpsonite samples (2) ] | ||
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| RRUFF ID: | R050629.1 | |||||||
| Sample Description: | Powder | |||||||
| Cell Refinement Output: | a: 7.3838(3)Å    b: 7.3838(3)Å    c: 4.5146(2)Å alpha: 90.° beta: 90.° gamma: 120.° Volume: 213.16(1)Å3 Crystal System: hexagonal | |||||||
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| REFERENCES for Simpsonite | |
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| American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record] | |
| 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] | |
| Bowley H (1938) Simpsonite, Report of the Department of Mines Western Australia, 93, 88-88 [view file] | |
| Taylor L E R (1939) X-ray studies of simpsonite, Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia, 25, 93-97 [view file] | |
| Foshag W F (1940) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 25, 312-314 [view file] | |
| Fleischer M (1945) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 30, 548-550 [view file] | |
| Kerr P F, Holmes R J (1945) X-ray study of the tantalum mineral simpsonite, Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 56, 479-504 [view file] | |
| Ercit T S, Černý P, Hawthorne F C (1992) The crystal chemistry of simpsonite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 30, 663-671 [view file] | |
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