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Burbankite R120073

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Name: Burbankite
RRUFF ID: R120073
Ideal Chemistry: (Na,Ca)3(Sr,Ba,Ce)3(CO3)5
Locality: Mont Saint-Hilaire, Rouville RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Source: Donald Doell [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Prismatic yellow-orange crystals embedded in microcline. Color is dependent upon light source.
Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis.
Mineral Group: [ burbankite (8) ]
Quick search: [ All Burbankite samples (3) ]
CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R120073.2
Sample Description: Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry: (Na2.99K0.04)Σ=3.03(Sr0.54Ca0.48Ba0.18Ce0.73La0.42Nd0.17Pr0.07)Σ=2.59(CO3)5
Microprobe Data File: [ Download Excel File ]
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented Raman on the primary sample
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RRUFF ID: R120073
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Sample Description: Unoriented Raman on the primary sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW
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POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R120073.9
Sample Description: Single crystal, powder profile is calculated
Cell Refinement Output: a: 10.532(1)Å    b: 10.532(1)Å    c: 6.4381(7)Å
alpha: 90°    beta: 90°    gamma: 120°   Volume: 618.46(8)Å3    Crystal System: hexagonal
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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Burbankite

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]

Pecora W T, Kerr J H (1953) Burbankite and calkinsite, two new carbonate minerals from Montana, American Mineralogist, 38, 1169-1183   [view file]

Fleischer M (1954) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 39, 402-408   [view file]

Voronkov A A, Shumyatskaya N G (1968) X-ray diffraction study of the structure of berbankite, (Na, Ca)3(Ca,Sr,Ba,Tr)3(CO3)5, Soviet Physics - Crystallography, 13, 192-196   [view file]

Chen T T, Chao G Y (1974) Burbankite from Mont St. Hilaire, Quebec, The Canadian Mineralogist, 12, 342-345   [view file]

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]

Bühn B, Rankin A H, Radtke M, Haller M, Knöchel A (1999) Burbankite, a (Sr,REE, Na, Ca)-carbonate in fluid inclusions from carbonatite-derived fluids: Identification and characterization using laser Raman spectroscopy, SEM-EDX, and synchrotron micro-XRF analysis, American Mineralogist, 84, 1117-1125   [view file]

Belovitskaya Y V, Pekov I V, Kabalov Y K (2000) Refinement of the crystal structures of low-rare-earth and “typical” burbankites by the Rietveld method, Crystallography Reports, 45, 26-29

Belovitskaya Y V, Pekov I V (2004) Genetic mineralogy of the burbankite group, New Data on Minerals. Moscow, 39, 50-64   [view file]

Sokolov S V, Rassulov V A (2004) Luminescence characteristics of the burbankite group minerals, Zapiski Vserossijskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva, 133, issue 6 73-88   [view file]

Onac B P, Bernhardt H J, Effenberger H (2009) Authigenic burbankite in the Cioclovina Cave sediments (Romania), European Journal of Mineralogy, 21, 507-514

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

Milani S, Spartà D, Fumagalli P, Joseph B, Borghes R, Chenda V, Maurice J, Bais G, Merlini M (2022) High-pressure and high-temperature structure and equation of state of Na3Ca2La(CO3)5 burbankite, European Journal of Mineralogy, 34, 351-358   [view file]

Nikolenko A M, Stepanov K M, Roddatis V, Veksler I V (2022) Crystallization of bastnäsite and burbankite from carbonatite melt in the system La(CO3)F-CaCO3-Na2CO3 at 100 MPa, American Mineralogist, 107, 2242-2250