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Name: Goldmanite RRUFF ID: R090044 Ideal Chemistry: Ca3V3+2(SiO4)3 Locality: Synthetic Source: Kevin Righter, V-gar3 Owner: RRUFF Description: Synthesized under pressure P = 10 kbars, at temperature T = 1300 C for 8 hours. Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis. |
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Mineral Group: [ garnet (97) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Goldmanite samples (3) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R090044.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 12.085(1)Å b: 12.085(1)Å c: 12.085(1)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 1765.2(3)Å3 Crystal System: cubic |
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REFERENCES for Goldmanite | |
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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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Moench R H, Meyrowitz R (1964) Goldmanite, a vanadium garnet from Laguna, New Mexico, American Mineralogist, 49, 644-655 [view file] |
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Ito J (1965) Synthesis of vanadium silicates: Haradaite, goldmanite and roscoelite, Mineralogical Journal, 4, 299-316 [view file] |
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Novak G A, Gibbs G V (1971) The crystal chemistry of the silicate garnets, American Mineralogist, 56, 791-825 [view file] |
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Jeong G Y, Kim Y H (1999) Goldmanite from the black slates of the Ogcheon belt, Korea, Mineralogical Magazine, 63, 253-256 [view file] |
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Milman V, Winkler B, Nobes R H, Akhmatchaya E V, Pickard C J, White J A (2000) Garnets: structure, compressibility, dynamics, and disorder, Journal of the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, 52, issue 7 22-25 |
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Teertstra D K (2006) Index-of-refraction and unit-cell constraints on cation valence and pattern of order in garnet-group minerals, The Canadian Mineralogist, 44, 341-346 [view file] |
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Uher P, Kovácik M, Kubi M, Shtukenberg A, Ozdín D (2008) Metamorphic vanadian-chromian silicate mineralization in carbon-rich amphicole schists from the Malé Karpaty Mountains, Western Carpathians, Slovakia, American Mineralogist, 93, 63-73 [view file] |
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Righter K, Sutton S, Danielson L, Pando K, Schmidt G, Yang H, Berthet S, Newville M, Choi Y, Downs R T, Malavergne V (2011) The effect of fO2 on the partitioning and valence of V and Cr in garnet/melt pairs and the relation to terrestrial mantle V and Cr content., American Mineralogist, 96, 1278-1290 [view file] |
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Grew E S, Locock A J, Mills S J, Galuskina I O, Galuskin E V, Hålenius U (2013) Nomenclature of the garnet supergroup, American Mineralogist, 98, 785-811 [view file] |
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Bačík P, Uher P, Kozáková P, tevko M, Ozdín D, Vaculovič T (2018) Vanadian and chromian garnet- and epidote-supergroup minerals in metamorphosed Paleozoic black shales from Čierna Lehota, Stráovské vrchy Mountains, Slovakia: crystal chemistry and evolution, Mineralogical Magazine, 82, 889-911 |
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