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|   |   | Name: Ferrobustamite RRUFF ID: R140843 Ideal Chemistry: CaFe2+Si2O6 Locality: Horado mine, Gifu Prefecture, Chubu Region, Honshu Island, Japan Source: Michael Scott S106010 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Brown translucent massive. embedded in matrix Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by single crystal X-ray diffraction. | 
| Mineral Group: [ Wollastonite (6) ] | ||
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| RRUFF ID: | R140843.9 | ||||||
| Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
| Cell Refinement Output: | a: 7.884(2)Å    b: 7.234(1)Å    c: 13.929(4)Å alpha: 89.74(2)° beta: 95.60(1)° gamma: 103.48(1)° Volume: 763.8(2)Å3 Crystal System: triclinic | ||||||
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| REFERENCES for Ferrobustamite | |
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| American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record] | |
| 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] | |
| Tilley C E (1937) Wollastonite solid solutions from Scawt Hill, Co. Antrim, Mineralogical Magazine, 24, 569-572 [view file] | |
| Rapoport P A, Burnham C W (1973) Ferrobustamite: The crystal structures of two Ca,Fe bustamite-type pyroxenoids, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 138, 419-438 [view file] | |
| Fleischer M (1974) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 59, 632-633 [view file] | |
| Shchipalkina N V, Chukanov N V, Rusakov V S, Pekov I V, Koshlyakova N N, Scholz R (2019) Iron distribution in Fe-rich bustamite-type minerals, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 46, 133-142 | |
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