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Name: Baryte RRUFF ID: R050335 Ideal Chemistry: Ba(SO4) Locality: Bullion Mountains, San Bernardino County, California, USA Source: California Institute of Technology W-22142 Owner: RRUFF Description: Colorless cleavage fragment Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis |
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Mineral Group: [ Baryte (18) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Baryte samples (6) ] |
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POWDER DIFFRACTION | ||||||||
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RRUFF ID: | R050335.1 | |||||||
Sample Description: | Powder | |||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 8.8327(8)Å b: 5.4480(6)Å c: 7.1297(2)Å alpha: 90.° beta: 90.° gamma: 90.° Volume: 343.09(3)Å3 Crystal System: orthorhombic |
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REFERENCES for Baryte | |
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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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Bras-de-Fer L (1778) (84) Terre (Élément), in Explication Morale du Jeu de Cartes; Anecdote Curieuse et Interessante Bruxelles 99-100 [view file] |
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Delamétherie J C (1797) Des pierres barytiques pures, Theorie de la Terre, 2nd Edition, Vol 2, 7-20 [view file] |
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Karsten D L G (1800) Tabellarische uebersicht der mineralogisch - einfachen fossilien, in Mineralogische Tabellen Heinrich August Rottmann Berlin 38-39 [view file] |
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Heinrich E W, Vian R W (1967) A barite-quartz phase in the Firesand River carbonatite, Wawa, Ontario, The Canadian Mineralogist, 9, 252-257 [view file] |
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Patel A R, Koshy J (1968) Cleavage and etching of barite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 9, 539-546 [view file] |
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International Mineralogical Association (1971) International Mineralogical Association: Commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Magazine, 38, 102-105 [view file] |
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Blount C (1974) Synthesis of barite, celestite, anglesite, witherite, and strontianite from aqueous solutions, American Mineralogist, 59, 1209-1219 [view file] |
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Hill R J (1977) A further refinement of the barite structure, The Canadian Mineralogist, 15, 522-526 [view file] |
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Miyake M, Minato I, Morikawa H, Iwai S (1978) Crystal structures and sulphate force constants of barite, celestite, and anglesite, American Mineralogist, 63, 506-510 [view file] |
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Zaitsev A N, Wall F, Le Bas M J (1998) REE-Sr-Ba minerals from the Khibina carbonatites, Kola Peninsula, Russia: their mineralogy, paragenesis and evolution, Mineralogical Magazine, 62(2), 225-250 [view file] |
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Lane M D (2007) Mid-infrared emission spectroscopy of sulfate and sulfate-bearing minerals, American Mineralogist, 92, 1-18 [view file] |
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Buzgar N, Buzatu A, Sanislav I V (2009) The Raman study on certain sulfates, Annalele Stiintifice ale Universitatii, 55, 5-23 [view file] |
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Jehlička J, Vítek P, Edwards H G M, Hargreaves M D, Čapoun T (2009) Fast detection of sulphate minerals (gypsum, anglesite, baryte) by a portable Raman spectrometer, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 40, 1082-1086 |
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Antao S M (2012) Structural trends for celestite (SrSO4), anglesite (PbSO4), and barite (BaSO4): confirmation of expected variations within SO4 groups, American Mineralogist, 97, 661-665 [view file] |
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Gill S B, Piercey S J, Layton-Matthews D (2016) Mineralogy and metal zoning of the Cambrian Zn-Pb-Cu-Ag-Au Lemarchant volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) deposit, Newfoundland, The Canadian Mineralogist, 54, 1307-1344 |
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Giebel R J, Gauert C D K, Marks M A W, Costin G, Markl G (2017) Multi-stage formation of REE minerals in the Palabora Carbonatite Complex, South Africa, American Mineralogist, 102, 1218-1233 |
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Fernández-Remolar D C, Banerjee N, Gómez-Ortiz D, Izawa M, Amils R (2018) A mineralogical archive of the biogeochemical sulfur cycle preserved in the subsurface of the Río Tinto system, American Mineralogist, 103, 394-411 |
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Markl G, Keim M F, Bayerl R (2019) Unusual mineral diversity in hydrothermal vein-type deposit: The Clara mine, SW Germany, as a type example, The Canadian Mineralogist, 57, 427-456 |
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