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|   |   | Name: Tilasite RRUFF ID: R060618 Ideal Chemistry: CaMg(AsO4)F Locality: Cervandone, Italy Source: Michael Scott S100827 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Pinkish-gray spearhead shaped crystals associated with albite and hexagonal tablets of clinochlore Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis. | 
| Mineral Group: [ Titanite (17) ] | ||
| Quick search: [ All Tilasite samples (2) ] | ||
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| RRUFF ID: | R060618.9 | ||||||
| Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
| Cell Refinement Output: | a: 6.686(5)Å    b: 8.952(7)Å    c: 7.570(6)Å alpha: 90° beta: 121.10(2)° gamma: 90° Volume: 388.0(3)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic | ||||||
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| REFERENCES for Tilasite | |
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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] | |
| Sjögren H (1895) Preliminära meddelanden om några undersökningar på svenska mineral. 4. Tilasit eller fluor-adelit från Långban, Geologiska Föreningens i Stockholm Förhandlingar, 17, 291-294 [view file] | |
| Smith G F H, Prior G T (1911) On fermorite, a new arsenate and phosphate of lime and strontia, and tilasite, from the manganese-ore deposits of India, Mineralogical Magazine, 16, 84-96 [view file] | |
| Richmond W E (1940) Crystal chemistry of the phosphates, arsenates and vanadates of the type A2XO4(Z), American Mineralogist, 25, 441-478 [view file] | |
| Welin E (1968) Notes on the mineralogy of Sweden 6. X-ray powder data for minerals from Långban and the related mineral deposits of Central Sweden, Arkiv för Mineralogi och Geologi, 4, 499-541 | |
| Bladh K W, Corbett R K, McLean W J, Laughon R B (1972) Mineralogical notes: the crystal structure of tilasite, American Mineralogist, 57, 1880-1884 [view file] | |
| Bermanec V (1994) Centro-symmetric tilasite from Nezilovo, Macedonia: a crystal structure refinement, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1994, 289-294 | |
| Jambor J L, Pertsev N N, Roberts A C (1995) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 80, 845-850 [view file] | |
| Pekov I V, Koshlykova N N, Zubkova N V, Lykova I S, Britvin S N, Yapaskurt V O, Agakhanov A A, Shchipalkina N V, Turchkova A G, Sidorov E G (2018) Fumarolic arsenates - a special type of arsenic mineralization, European Journal of Mineralogy, 30, 305-322 | |
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