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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) ] |
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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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REFERENCES for Burbankite | |
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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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Pecora W T, Kerr J H (1953) Burbankite and calkinsite, two new carbonate minerals from Montana, American Mineralogist, 38, 1169-1183 [view file] |
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Fleischer M (1954) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 39, 402-408 [view file] |
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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] |
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Chen T T, Chao G Y (1974) Burbankite from Mont St. Hilaire, Quebec, The Canadian Mineralogist, 12, 342-345 [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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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] |
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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 |
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Belovitskaya Y V, Pekov I V (2004) Genetic mineralogy of the burbankite group, New Data on Minerals. Moscow, 39, 50-64 [view file] |
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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] |
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Onac B P, Bernhardt H J, Effenberger H (2009) Authigenic burbankite in the Cioclovina Cave sediments (Romania), European Journal of Mineralogy, 21, 507-514 |
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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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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] |
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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 |
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