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| Name: Painite RRUFF ID: X050128 Ideal Chemistry: CaZrAl9O15(BO3) Locality: Ohngaing Village, Mogok, Burma Source: G.R. Rossman 417 Owner: Caltech Description: Status: The identification of this mineral has been determined only by Raman spectroscopy | ||
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| REFERENCES for Painite | |
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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] | |
| Claringbull G F, Hey M H, Payne C J (1957) Painite, a new mineral from Mogok, Burma, Mineralogical Magazine, 31, 420-425 [view file] | |
| Fleischer M (1957) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 42, 580-586 [view file] | |
| Moore P B, Araki T (1976) Painite, CaZrB[Al9O18]: its crystal structure and relation to jeremejevite, B5[◻3Al6(OH)3O15], and fluoborite, B3[Mg9(F,OH)9O9], American Mineralogist, 61, 88-94 [view file] | |
| Shigley J E, Kampf A R, Rossman G R (1986) New data on painite, Mineralogical Magazine, 50, 267-270 [view file] | |
| Armbruster T, Döbelin N, Peretti A, Günther D, Reusser E, Grobéty B (2004) The crystal structure of painite CaZrB[Al9O18] revisited, American Mineralogist, 89, 610-613 [view file] | |
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