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Name: Billietite RRUFF ID: R070624 Ideal Chemistry: Ba(UO2)6O4(OH)6·8H2O Locality: Eureka mine, Castell EstaĆ³, La Plana de Mont-ros, La Torre de Capdella, Lleida, Catalonia, Spain Source: Joan Abella i Creus Owner: RRUFF Description: Yellow platy crystals associated with green malachite and orange becquerelite Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. |
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RRUFF ID: | R070624.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 12.084(5)Å b: 30.187(9)Å c: 7.149(3)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 2607.9(8)Å3 Crystal System: orthorhombic |
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REFERENCES for Billietite | |
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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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Vaes J F (1947) Six nouveaux minéraux d'urane provenant de Shinkolobwe (Katanga), Annales de la Société Géologique de Belgique, 70, B212-B225 [view file] |
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Fleischer M (1948) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 33, 384-386 [view file] |
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Fleischer M (1949) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 34, 339-339 [view file] |
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Frondel J W, Cuttutta F (1953) Studies of uranium minerals (XII): The status of billietite and becquerelite, American Mineralogist, 30, 1019-1024 [view file] |
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Christ C L, Clark J R (1960) Crystal chemical studies of uranyl oxide hydrates, American Mineralogist, 45, 1026-1061 [view file] |
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Pagoaga M K, Appleman D E, Stewart J M (1987) Crystal structures and crystal chemistry of the uranyl oxide hydrates becquerelite, billietite, and protasite, American Mineralogist, 72, 1230-1238 [view file] |
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Finch R L, Burns P C, Hawthorne F C, Ewing R C (2006) Refinement of the crystal structure of billietite, Ba [(UO2)6O4(OH)6] (H2O)8, The Canadian Mineralogist, 44, 1197-1205 [view file] |
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Frost R L, Čejka J, Weier M L (2007) Raman spectroscopic study of the uranyl oxyhydroxide hydrates: becquerelite, billietite, curite, schoepite and vandendriesscheite, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 38, 460-466 |
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Piilonen P C, Locock A J, Rowe R, Ercit T S (2007) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 92, 703-707 [view file] |
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