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Name: Hydroxylclinohumite RRUFF ID: R060291 Ideal Chemistry: Mg9(SiO4)4(OH)2 Locality: Koksha Valley, Badakshan Province, Afghanistan Source: Herb Obodda 097 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Deep red tabular crystal Status: The identification of this mineral has been made only by X-ray diffraction. |
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Mineral Group: [ Humite (21) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R060291.1 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Powder | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 4.7408(1)Å b: 10.2509(2)Å c: 13.6676(2)Å alpha: 100.920(3)° beta: 90.° gamma: 90.° Volume: 652.19(1)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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REFERENCES for Hydroxylclinohumite | |
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American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record] |
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Yamamoto K, Akimoto S (1977) The system MgO-SiO2-H2O at hish pressures and temperatures - stability field for hyrdroxyl-chondrodite, hydroxyl-clinohumite and 10 Å-phase, American Journal of Science, 277, 288-312 [view file] |
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Nielsen T F D, Johnsen O (1978) Titaniferous clinohumite from Gardiner Plateau Complex, East Greenland, Mineralogical Magazine, 42, 99-101 [view file] |
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Gekimyants V M, Sokolova E V, Spiridonov E M, Ferraris G, Chukanov N V, Prencipe M, Avdonin V N, Polenov Y A (1999) Hydroxylclinohumite Mg9(SiO4)4(OH,F)2 a new mineral of the humite group, Zapiski Vserossijskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva, 128, issue 5 64-70 [view file] |
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Ferraris G, Prencipe M, Sokolova E V, Gekimyants V M, Spiridonov E M (2000) Hydroxylclinohumite, a new member of the humite group: Twinning, crystal structure and crystal chemistry of the clinohumite subgroup, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 215, 169-173 |
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Jambor J L, Puziewicz J, Roberts A C (2000) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 85, 1843-1847 [view file] |
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Liu Z X, Lager G A, Hemley R J, Ross N L (2003) Synchrotron infrared spectroscopy of OH-chondrodite and OH-clinohumite at high pressure, American Mineralogist, 88, 1412-1415 [view file] |
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Pekov I V (2007) New minerals from former Soviet Union countries, 1998-2006: new minerals approved by the IMA commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Almanac, 11, 9-51 [view file] |
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Bilohučin V, Uher P, Koděra P, Milovská S, Miku T, Bačík P (2017) Evolution of borate minerals from contact metamorphic to hydrothermal stages: Ludwigite-group minerals and szaibélyite from the Vysoká - Zlatno skarn, Slovakia, Mineralogy and Petrology, 111, 643-658 |
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Krivovichev V G, Kuksa K A, Sokolov P B, Panikorovskii T L, Bocharov V N, GussiƄs G A (2023) First occurrence of titanian hydroxylclinohumite in marble-hosting gem spinel deposits, Luc Yen, Vietnam, Minerals, 13, 901 [view file] |
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