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|   |   | Name: Steenstrupine-(Ce) RRUFF ID: R100205 Ideal Chemistry: Na14Ce6Mn2+2Fe3+2Zr(PO4)7Si12O36(OH)2·3H2O Locality: Mont Saint-Hilaire, Rouville County, Quebec, Canada Source: Royal Ontario Museum K10061 Owner: RRUFF Description: Transparent brown blocky crystals on a white sodalite matrix. Our sample is twinned. If we ignored the twin, then we get the reported hexagonal cell of Moore and Shen (1983). Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by single crystal X-ray diffraction. | 
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| RRUFF ID: | R100205.9 | ||||
| Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated (hexagonal cell a=10.4602(8), c=45.457(5)) | ||||
| Cell Refinement Output: | a: 18.130(2)Å    b: 10.4602(8)Å    c: 19.375(2)Å alpha: 90° beta: 128.537(4)° gamma: 90° Volume: 2874.1(5)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic | ||||
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| REFERENCES for Steenstrupine-(Ce) | |
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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] | |
| Lorenzen J (1882) On some minerals from the sodalite-syenite in the Juliane-haab district, south Greenland, Mineralogical Magazine, 5, 49-70 [view file] | |
| Sørensen H (1962) On the occurrence of steenstrupine in the Ilímaussaq massif, Southwest Greenland, Meddelelser om Grønland, 167, 1-251 [view file] | |
| Moore P B, Shen J (1983) Crystal structure of steenstrupine: a rod structure of unusual complexity, Tschermaks Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen, 31, 47-67 | |
| Dunn P J, Grice J D, Fleischer M, Pabst A (1984) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 69, 210-215 [view file] | |
| 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] | |
| Karup-Møller S, Rose-Hansen J (2017) Alteration of steenstrupine-(Ce) from the Ilímaussaq alkaline complex, South Greenland, European Journal of Mineralogy, 29, 871-887 | |
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