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Name: Pyrobelonite RRUFF ID: R100056 Ideal Chemistry: PbMn2+VO4(OH) Locality: Langban, Filipstad, Varmland, Sweden Source: William W Pinch [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Isolated red blocky crystals Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. |
Mineral Group: [ descloizite (10) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Pyrobelonite samples (2) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R100056.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 7.659(1)Å b: 6.1899(9)Å c: 9.521(1)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 451.40(9)Å3 Crystal System: orthorhombic |
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REFERENCES for Pyrobelonite | |
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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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Flink G (1919) Pyrobelonit, ein neues Blei-Mangan-Vanadat von Långbanshyttan, Geologiska Föreningens i Stockholm Förhandlingar, 41, 433-447 [view file] |
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Foshag W F (1920) New minerals, American Mineralogist, 5, 86-88 [view file] |
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Richmond W E (1940) Crystal chemistry of the phosphates, arsenates and vanadates of the type A2XO4(Z), American Mineralogist, 25, 441-478 [view file] |
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Barnes W H, Qurashi M M (1952) Unit cell and space group data for certain vanadium minerals, American Mineralogist, 37, 407-422 |
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Bachmann H G (1953) Beiträge zur kristallchemie natürlicher und künstlicher schwermetallvanadate. I. Die morphologie des descloizit (und des pyrobelonit), Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1953, 68-82 |
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Donaldson D M, Barnes W H (1955) The structures of the minerals of the descloizite group and adelite groups: II - pyrobelonite, American Mineralogist, 40, 580-596 [view file] |
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Welin E (1968) Notes on the mineralogy of Sweden 6. X-ray powder data for minerals from Långban and the related mineral deposits of Central Sweden, Arkiv för Mineralogi och Geologi, 4, 499-541 |
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Barnes W H, Ahmed F R (1969) A note on the unit cell contents, and X-ray diffraction powder pattern, of pyrobelonite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 10, 117-123 [view file] |
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Dunn P J (1983) Pyrobelonite from Franklin, New Jersey, The Mineralogical Record, 14, 203-204 |
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Kolitsch U (2001) Refinement of pyrobelonite, PbMnIIVO4(OH), a member of the descloizite group, Acta Crystallographica, E57, i119-i121 |
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