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| Name: Amblygonite RRUFF ID: X050012 Ideal Chemistry: LiAl(PO4)F Locality: Minas Gerais, Brazil Source: RD Shannon 56163- 54 Owner: Caltech Description: Status: The identification of this mineral has been determined only by Raman spectroscopy | ||
| Quick search: [ All Amblygonite samples (3) ] | ||
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| REFERENCES for Amblygonite | |
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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] | |
| Breithaupt J F A (1818) Gattung B. amblygonit, in Handbuch der Mineralogie von C. A. S. Hoffmann, Volume 4 Craz und Gerlach Freiberg 159-161 [view file] | |
| Coiseaux D (1864) Ueber die doppeltbrechenden eigenschaften und die krytallform des amblygonits, Annalen der Physik, 199, 183-187 [view file] | |
| Richmond W E (1940) Crystal chemistry of the phosphates, arsenates and vanadates of the type A2XO4(Z), American Mineralogist, 25, 441-478 [view file] | |
| Nel H J (1946) Petalite and amblygonite from Karibib, South West Africa, American Mineralogist, 31, 51-57 [view file] | |
| Baur W H (1959) Die Kristallstruktur des Edelamblygonits LiAlPO4(OH,F), Acta Crystallographica, 12, 988-994 | |
| Černá I, Černý P, Ferguson R B (1972) The Tanco pegmatite at Bernic Lake, Manitoba. III. Amblygonite-montebrasite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 11, 643-659 [view file] | |
| Loh S E, Wise W S (1976) Synthesis and fluorine-hydroxyl exchange in the amblygonite series, The Canadian Mineralogist, 14, 357-363 [view file] | |
| Shigley J E, Brown G E (1985) Occurance and alteration of phosphate minerals at the Stewart Pegmatite, Pala District, San Diego County, California, American Mineralogist, 70, 395-408 [view file] | |
| Groat L A, Rausepp M, Hawthorne F C, Ercit T S, Sherriff B L, Hartman J S (1990) The amblygonite-montebrasite series: Characterization by single-crystal structure refinement, infrared spectroscopy, and multinuclear MAS-NMR spectroscopy, American Mineralogist, 75, 992-1008 [view file] | |
| Rondeau B, Fritsch E, Lefevre P, Guiraud M, Fransolet A M, Lulzac Y (2006) A Raman investigation of the amblygonitemontebrasite series, The Canadian Mineralogist, 44, 1109-1117 [view file] | |
| Dias L N, Pinheiro M V B, Moreira R L, Krambrock K, Guedes K J, Menezes L A D, Karfunkel J, Schnellrath J, Scholz R (2011) Spectroscopic characterization of transition metal impurities in natural montebrasite/amblygonite, American Mineralogist, 96, 42-52 [view file] | |
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