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Name: Benstonite RRUFF ID: R050484 Ideal Chemistry: Ba6Ca6Mg(CO3)13 Locality: Minerva #1 mine, Cave-in-Rock, Hardin County, Illinois, USA Source: California Institute of Technology W-40011 Owner: RRUFF Description: Colorless fragment Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis |
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RRUFF ID: | R050484.1 | |||||||
Sample Description: | Powder | |||||||
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a: 18.2712(7)Å b: 18.2712(7)Å c: 8.700(1)Å alpha: 90.° beta: 90.° gamma: 120.° Volume: 2515.3(4)Å3 Crystal System: hexagonal |
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REFERENCES for Benstonite | |
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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 (1961) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 46, 1513-1520 [view file] |
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Lippmann F (1961) Benstonit, Ca7Ba6(CO3)13, ein neues Mineral, Naturwissenschaften, 16, 550-551 |
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Lippmann F (1962) Benstonite, Ca7Ba6(CO3)13, a new mineral from the barite deposit in Hot Spring County, Arkansas, American Mineralogist, 47, 585-598 [view file] |
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Fleischer M (1963) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 48, 433-437 [view file] |
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International Mineralogical Association (1967) Commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Magazine, 36, 131-136 [view file] |
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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 |
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Effenberger H (1979) Kristallstruktur und chemische formel des benstonits, Ba6Ca6Mg(CO3)13, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Abhandlungen, 136, 326-337 |
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Konev A A, Kartashev P M, Koneva A A, Ushchapovskaya Z F, Nartova N V (2004) Mg-deficient strontium benstonite from the ore occurrence Biraya (Siberia), Zapiski Vserossijskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva, 133, issue 6 65-73 [view file] |
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