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|   | Name: Magnesio-hastingsite RRUFF ID: R040010 Ideal Chemistry: NaCa2(Mg4Fe3+)(Si6Al2)O22(OH)2 Locality: Amity, New York, USA Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 4231 Owner: RRUFF Description: Group of black prismatic crystals Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis | |
| Mineral Group: [ amphibole (107) ] | ||
| Quick search: [ All Magnesio-hastingsite samples (3) ] | ||
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| RRUFF ID: | R040010.1 | |||||||
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| Cell Refinement Output: | a: 9.9293(6)Å    b: 18.128(1)Å    c: 5.3364(5)Å alpha: 90.° beta: 105.145(6)° gamma: 90.° Volume: 927.24(9)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic | |||||||
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| REFERENCES for Magnesio-hastingsite | |
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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] | |
| Billings M (1928) The chemistry, optics, and genesis of the hastingsite group of amphiboles, American Mineralogist, 13, 287-296 [view file] | |
| Leake B E (1978) Nomenclature of amphiboles, American Mineralogist, 63, 1023-1052 [view file] | |
| Walitzi E M, Walter F (1981) Verfeinerung der kristallstruktur eines basaltischen magnesio-hastingsites, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 156, 197-208 [view file] | |
| Leake B E, Woolley A R, Arps C E S, Birch W D, Gilbert M C, Grice J D, Hawthorne F C, Kato A, Kisch H J, Krivovichev V G, Linthout K, Laird J, Mandarino J A, Maresch W V, Nickel E H, Rock N M S, Schumacher J C, Smith D C, Stephenson N C N, Ungaretti L, Whittaker E J W, Youzhi G (1997) Nomenclature of amphiboles: report of the Subcommittee on Amphiboles of the International Mineralogical Association, Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names, The Canadian Mineralogist, 35, 219-246 [view file] | |
| Burke E A J, Leake B E (2004) "Named amphiboles": a new category of amphiboles recognized by the International Mineralogical Association (IMA), and the proper order of prefixes to be used in amphibole names, The Canadian Mineralogist, 42, 1881-1883 [view file] | |
| Hawthorne F C, Oberti R, Harlow G E, Maresch W V, Martin R F, Schumacher J C, Welch M D (2012) Nomenclature of the amphibole supergroup, American Mineralogist, 97, 2031-2048 [view file] | |
| Mueller B L, Jenkins D M, Dyar M D (2016) Chlorine incorporation in amphiboles synthesized along the magnesio-hastingsite - hastingsite compositional join, European Journal of Mineralogy, 29, 167-180 | |
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