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Name: Hastingsite RRUFF ID: R070250 Ideal Chemistry: NaCa2(Fe2+4Fe3+)(Si6Al2)O22(OH)2 Locality: unnamed quarry, Dmitrievka village, Mariupol' Massif (Oktyabr'skii), Azov Sea Region, Donetsk Oblast', Ukraine Source: Michael Scott S100448 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Dark green to black crystals exhibiting typical amphibole cleavage Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis. |
Mineral Group: [ amphibole (107) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Hastingsite samples (3) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R070250.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 9.915(1)Å b: 18.193(3)Å c: 5.3314(6)Å alpha: 90° beta: 104.989(8)° gamma: 90° Volume: 929.1(2)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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REFERENCES for Hastingsite | |
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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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Adams F D, Harrington B J (1896) On a new alkali hornblende and a titaniferous andradite from the nepheline-syenite of Dungannon, Hastings County, Ontario, American Journal of Science, 151, 210-218 [view file] |
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Peacock M A (1928) The chemistry, optics and genesis of the hastingsite group of amphiboles, American Mineralogist, 13, 287-296 [view file] |
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Appleyard E C (1975) Silica-poor hastingsitic amphiboles from metasomatic alkaline gneisses at Wolfe, Eastern Ontario, The Canadian Mineralogist, 13, 342-351 [view file] |
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Leake B E (1978) Nomenclature of amphiboles, American Mineralogist, 63, 1023-1052 [view file] |
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Dick L A, Robinson G W (1979) Chlorinebearing potassian hastingsite from a sphalerite skarn in southern Yukon, The Canadian Mineralogist, 17, 25-26 [view file] |
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Makino K, Tomita K (1989) Cation distribution in the octahedral sites of hornblendes, American Mineralogist, 74, 1097-1105 |
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Makino K, Tomita K (1993) Effect of chlorine on the crystal structure of a chlorine-rich hastingsite, Mineralogical Magazine, 57, 677-685 [view file] |
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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] |
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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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Tribaudino M, Hovis G L, Almer C, Leaman A (2022) Thermal expansion of minerals in the amphibole supergroup, American Mineralogist, 107, 1302-1312 |
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