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Name: Nambulite RRUFF ID: R060616 Ideal Chemistry: LiMn2+4Si5O14(OH) Locality: Kombat mine, Kombat, Grootfontein District, Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia Source: Michael Scott S100824 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Pink colored fragment of a single crystal associated with gypsum Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. |
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| Mineral Group: [ Rhodonite (16) ] | ||
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| RRUFF ID: | R060616.9 | ||||||
| Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
| Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 7.600(3)Å b: 11.722(4)Å c: 6.729(2)Å alpha: 92.86(1)° beta: 94.85(1)° gamma: 106.55(1)° Volume: 570.8(9)Å3 Crystal System: triclinic |
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| REFERENCES for Nambulite | |
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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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Yoshii M, Aoki Y, Maeda K (1972) Nambulite, a new lithium- and sodium-bearing manganese silicate from the Funakozawa mine, northeastern Japan, Mineralogical Journal, 7, 29-44 [view file] |
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Fleischer M (1973) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 58, 1111-1115 [view file] |
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Narita H, Koto K, Morimoto N, Yoshii M (1975) The crystal structure of nambulite (Li,Na)Mn4Si5O14(OH), Acta Crystallographica, B31, 2422-2426 |
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Liebau F (1980) The role of cationic hydrogen in pyroxenoid crystal chemistry, American Mineralogist, 65, 981-985 [view file] |
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Hawthorne F C, Bladh K W, Burke E A J, Grew E S, Langley R H, Puciewicz J, Roberts A C, Schedler R A, Shigley J E, Vanko D A (1987) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 72, 222-230 [view file] |
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Schneider G I C (1987) On the mineralogy of nambulite, a rare manganese silicate from Namibia, Japan and Brazil, Communications of the Geological Survey of South West Africa/Namibia, 3, 33-35 |
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Dunn P J (1991) Rare minerals of the Kombat mine, The Mineralogical Record, 22, 421-425 |
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Nagashima M, Armbruster T, Kolitsch U, Pettke T (2014) The relation between Li ↔ Na substitution and hydrogen bonding in five-periodic single-chain silicates nambulite and marsturite: A single-crystal X-ray study, American Mineralogist, 99, 1462-1470 |
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