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Name: Chevkinite-(Ce) RRUFF ID: R060419 Ideal Chemistry: Ce4(Ti,Fe2+,Fe3+)5O8(Si2O7)2 Locality: Arondu, Basha Valley, Baltistan, Pakistan Source: Herb Obodda 110 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Black resinous fragment Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis |
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Mineral Group: [ Chevkinite (4) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Chevkinite-(Ce) samples (2) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R060419.1 | |||||||
Sample Description: | Powder | |||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 13.391(2)Å b: 5.7449(7)Å c: 11.066(2)Å alpha: 90.° beta: 100.63(1)° gamma: 90.° Volume: 836.7(2)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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REFERENCES for Chevkinite-(Ce) | |
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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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Rose G (1842) 38. Tschewkinit, Mineralogisch-Geognostische Reise nach dem Ural, dem Altai und dem Kaspischen Meere, 2, 513-514 [view file] |
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Foshag W F (1928) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 13, 491-494 [view file] |
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Ito J (1967) A study of chevkinite and perrierite, American Mineralogist, 52, 1094-1104 [view file] |
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Calvo C, Faggiani R (1974) A re-investigation of the crystal structures of chevkinite and perrierite, American Mineralogist, 59, 1277-1285 [view file] |
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Nickel E H, Mandarino J A (1987) Procedures involving the IMA Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names and guidelines on mineral nomenclature, American Mineralogist, 72, 1031-1042 [view file] |
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Jambor J L, Puziewicz J, Roberts A C (1995) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 80, 1328-1333 [view file] |
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Yang Z, Fleck M, Smith M, Tao K, Song R, Zhang P (2002) The crystal structure of natural Fe-rich chevkinite-(Ce), European Journal of Mineralogy, 14, 969-975 |
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Sokolova E, Hawthorne F C, Della Ventura G, Kartashov P M (2004) Chevkinite-(Ce): crystal structure and the effect of moderate radiation-induced damage on site-occupancy refinement, The Canadian Mineralogist, 42, 1013-1025 [view file] |
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Macdonald R, Bagiński B, Kartashov P, Zozulya D, Dzierżanowski P (2012) Chevkinite-group minerals from Russia and Mongolia: new compositional data from metasomatites and ore deposits, Mineralogical Magazine, 76, 535-549 [view file] |
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Muhling J R, Suvorova A A, Rasmussen B (2014) The occurrence and composition of chevkinite-(Ce) and perrierite-(Ce) in tholeiitic intrusive rocks and lunar mare basalts, American Mineralogist, 99, 1911-1921 [view file] |
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Bagiński B, Macdonald R, Dzierżanowski P, Zozulya D, Kartashov P M (2015) Hydrothermal alteration of chevkinite-group minerals: products and mechanisms. Part 1. Hydration of chevkinite-(Ce), Mineralogical Magazine, 79, 1019-1037 |
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MacDonald R, Bagiński B, Kartashov P M, Zozulya D, Dzierżanowski (2015) Interaction of rare-metal minerals with hydrothermal fluids: Evidence from quartz-epidote metasomatites of the Haldzan Buragtag Massif, Mongolian Altai, The Canadian Mineralogist, 53, 1015-1034 |
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Macdonald R, Bagiński B, Belkin H E, Stachowicz M (2019) Composition, paragenesis, and alteration of the chevkinite group of minerals, American Mineralogist, 104, 348-369 [view file] |
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Stachowicz M, Bagiński B, Welch M D, Kartashov P M, MacDonald R, Balcerzak J, Tyczkowski J, Woźniak K (2019) Cation ordering, valence states, and symmetry breaking in the crystal-chemically complex mineral chevkinite-(Ce): X-ray diffraction and photoelectron spectroscopy studies and mechanisms of Nb enrichment, American Mineralogist, 104, 595-602 |
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Stachowicz M, Welch M D, Bagiński B, Kartashov P M, Macdonald R, Woźniak K (2019) Cation ordering, valence states, and symmetry breaking in the crystal-chemically complex mineral chevkinite-(Ce): Recrystallization, transformation, and metamict states in chevkinite, American Mineralogist, 104, 1481-1486 |
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