R050043 - RRUFF Database: Raman, X-ray, Infrared, and Chemistry

Allanite-(Ce) R050043

Name: Allanite-(Ce)
RRUFF ID: R050043
Ideal Chemistry: CaCe(Al₂Fe²⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)
Locality: Arendal, Norway
Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 4499 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Black patially metamict fragment, note that a fragment of this sample was heated and is posted at R080092
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis

Mineral Groups: [ allanite (7) ] [ epidote (31) ]

Quick search: [ All Allanite-(Ce) samples (4) ]

CHEMISTRY

RRUFF ID:	R050043.2
Sample Description:	Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry:	Ca_1.00(Ce³⁺_0.22Ca_0.21La_0.11Nd_0.11Mn_0.08Gd_0.07Th_0.06Y_0.06Ti_0.05Mg_0.03)_Σ=1(Al_1.82Fe³⁺_0.40Fe²⁺_0.78)_Σ=3[Si_2.00O₇][Si_1.00O₄]O(OH)
Microprobe Data File:	[ Download Excel File ]

RAMAN SPECTRUM

RRUFF ID:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

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BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS

RRUFF ID:

R050043

Wavelength:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

Instrument settings:

Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW

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INFRARED SPECTRUM (Attenuated Total Reflectance)

RRUFF ID:

R050043.1

Sample Description:

Powder

Instrument settings:

SensIR Durascope on a Nicolet Magna 860 FTIR

Resolution:

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POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R050043.1

Sample Description:

Powder, cell parameters are from single crystal

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 8.8(1)Å b: 5.66(6)Å c: 10.2(1)Å
alpha: 90° beta: 115.6(3)° gamma: 90° Volume: 462(3)Å³ Crystal System: monoclinic

File Type Information

Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

File Type Information

Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Allanite-(Ce)
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]
Thomson T (1811) Experiments on allanite, a new mineral from Greenland, A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and the Arts, 29, 47-59 [view file]
Thomson T (1812) Experiments on allanite, a new mineral from Greenland, Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 6, 371-386 [view file]
Geijer P (1921) The cerium minerals of Bastnäs at Riddarhyttan, Sveriges Geologiska Undersökning, Arsbok 14 (1920) 304, 1-24 [view file]
Lima de Faria, J (1958) Heat treatment of metamict euxenites, polymignites, yttrotantalites, samarskites, pyrochlores, and allanites, Mineralogical Museum, section of the Junta de Investigações do Ultramar, 3R, 937-942 [view file]
Fleischer M (1963) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 48, 1413-1421 [view file]
Levinson A A (1966) A system of nomenclature for rare-earth minerals, American Mineralogist, 51, 152-158 [view file]
Dollase W A (1971) Refinement of the crystal structures of epidote, allanite and hancockite, American Mineralogist, 56, 447-464 [view file]
Černý P, Černá I (1972) Bastnaesite after allanite from Rough Rock Lake, Ontario, The Canadian Mineralogist, 11, 541-543 [view file]
Morin J A (1977) Allanite in granitic rocks of the Kenora - Vermilion Bay area, northwestern Ontario, The Canadian Mineralogist, 15, 297-302 [view file]
Campbell F A, Ethier V G (1984) Composition of allanite in the footwall of the Sullivan orebody, British Columbia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 22, 507-511 [view file]
Nickel E H, Mandarino J A (1987) Procedures involving the IMA Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names and guidelines on mineral nomenclature, American Mineralogist, 72, 1031-1042 [view file]
Meintzer R E, Mitchell R S (1988) The epigene alteration of allanite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 26, 945-955 [view file]
Moore J M, McStay J H (1990) The formation of allanite-(Ce) in calcic granofelses, Namaqualand, South Africa, The Canadian Mineralogist, 28, 77-86 [view file]
Pan Y, Fleet M E (1991) Vanadian allanite-(La) and vanadian allanite-(Ce) from the Hemlo gold deposit, Ontario, Canada, Mineralogical Magazine, 55, 497-507 [view file]
Bonazzi P, Menchetti S (1994) Structural variations induced by heat treatment in allanite and REE-bearing piemontite, American Mineralogist, 79, 1176-1184 [view file]
Pinckston R D, Smith D G W (1994) Mineralogy of the Lake zone, Thor Lake rare-metals deposit, N.W.T., Canada, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 32, 516-532
Wood S A, Ricketts A (2000) Allanite-(Ce) from the Eocene Casto granite, Idaho: response to hydrothermal alteration, The Canadian Mineralogist, 38, 81-100 [view file]
Ercit T S (2002) The mess that is "allanite", The Canadian Mineralogist, 40, 1411-1419 [view file]
Liebscher A (2004) Spectroscopy of epidote minerals, Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, 56, Mineralogical Society of America 125-170
Hosino M, Kimata M, Nishida N, Kyono A, Shimzu M, Takizawa S (2005) The chemistry of allanite from the Daibosatsu Pass, Yamanshi, Japan, Mineralogical Magazine, 69, 403-423 [view file]
Armbruster T, Bonazzi P, Akasaka M, Bermanec V, Chopin C, Giere R, Huess-Assbichler S, Liebscher A, Menchetti S, Pan Y, Pasero M (2006) Recommended nomeclature of epidote-group minerals, European Journal of Mineralogy, 18, 551-567 [view file]
Hoshino M, Kimata M, Shimizu M, Nishida N, Fujiwara T (2006) Allanite-(Ce) in granitic rocks from Japan: genetic implications of patterns of REE and Mn enrichment, The Canadian Mineralogist, 44, 45-62 [view file]
Ercit T S, Piilonen P C, Rowe R (2007) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 92, 1539-1542 [view file]
Bonazzi P, Holtstam D, Bindi L, Nysten P, Capitani G (2009) Multi-analytical approach to solve the puzzle of an allanite-subgroup mineral from Kesebol, Västra Götaland, Sweden, American Mineralogist, 94, 121-134 [view file]
Cobić A, Bermanec V, Tomašić N, Škoda R (2010) The hydrothermal recrystallization of metamict allanite-(Ce), The Canadian Mineralogist, 48, 513-521 [view file]
Hoshino M, Kimata M, Chesner C A, Nishida N, Shimizu M, Akasaka T (2010) Crystal chemistry of volcanic allanites indicative of naturally induced oxidation-dehydrogenation, Mineralogy and Petrology, 99, 133-141
Hoshino M, Kimata M, Nishida N, Shimizu M (2010) Dissakisite-(Ce) chemical composition: some implications for its origins, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 37, 255-263
Hanson S L, Falster A U, Simmons W B, Brown Tj A (2012) Allanite-(Nd) from the Kingman Feldspar mine, Mojave Pegmatite District, Northwestern Arizona, USA, The Canadian Mineralogist, 50, 815-824 [view file]
Borst A M, Finch A A, Friis H, Horsburgh N J, Gamaletsos P N, Goettlicher J, Steininger R, Geraki K (2020) Structural state of rare earth elements in eudialyte-group minerals, Mineralogical Magazine, 84, 19-34
Shen C, Shu Z, Gu X, Dick J, Feng Y, Zheng H, Lu A (2022) Site splitting at M3 in allanite-(Ce), Mineralogical Magazine, 86, 134-140

REFERENCES for Allanite-(Ce)

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]

Thomson T (1811) Experiments on allanite, a new mineral from Greenland, A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and the Arts, 29, 47-59 [view file]

Thomson T (1812) Experiments on allanite, a new mineral from Greenland, Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 6, 371-386 [view file]

Geijer P (1921) The cerium minerals of Bastnäs at Riddarhyttan, Sveriges Geologiska Undersökning, Arsbok 14 (1920) 304, 1-24 [view file]

Lima de Faria, J (1958) Heat treatment of metamict euxenites, polymignites, yttrotantalites, samarskites, pyrochlores, and allanites, Mineralogical Museum, section of the Junta de Investigações do Ultramar, 3R, 937-942 [view file]

Fleischer M (1963) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 48, 1413-1421 [view file]

Levinson A A (1966) A system of nomenclature for rare-earth minerals, American Mineralogist, 51, 152-158 [view file]

Dollase W A (1971) Refinement of the crystal structures of epidote, allanite and hancockite, American Mineralogist, 56, 447-464 [view file]

Černý P, Černá I (1972) Bastnaesite after allanite from Rough Rock Lake, Ontario, The Canadian Mineralogist, 11, 541-543 [view file]

Morin J A (1977) Allanite in granitic rocks of the Kenora - Vermilion Bay area, northwestern Ontario, The Canadian Mineralogist, 15, 297-302 [view file]

Campbell F A, Ethier V G (1984) Composition of allanite in the footwall of the Sullivan orebody, British Columbia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 22, 507-511 [view file]

Nickel E H, Mandarino J A (1987) Procedures involving the IMA Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names and guidelines on mineral nomenclature, American Mineralogist, 72, 1031-1042 [view file]

Meintzer R E, Mitchell R S (1988) The epigene alteration of allanite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 26, 945-955 [view file]

Moore J M, McStay J H (1990) The formation of allanite-(Ce) in calcic granofelses, Namaqualand, South Africa, The Canadian Mineralogist, 28, 77-86 [view file]

Pan Y, Fleet M E (1991) Vanadian allanite-(La) and vanadian allanite-(Ce) from the Hemlo gold deposit, Ontario, Canada, Mineralogical Magazine, 55, 497-507 [view file]

Bonazzi P, Menchetti S (1994) Structural variations induced by heat treatment in allanite and REE-bearing piemontite, American Mineralogist, 79, 1176-1184 [view file]

Pinckston R D, Smith D G W (1994) Mineralogy of the Lake zone, Thor Lake rare-metals deposit, N.W.T., Canada, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 32, 516-532

Wood S A, Ricketts A (2000) Allanite-(Ce) from the Eocene Casto granite, Idaho: response to hydrothermal alteration, The Canadian Mineralogist, 38, 81-100 [view file]

Ercit T S (2002) The mess that is "allanite", The Canadian Mineralogist, 40, 1411-1419 [view file]

Liebscher A (2004) Spectroscopy of epidote minerals, Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, 56, Mineralogical Society of America 125-170

Hosino M, Kimata M, Nishida N, Kyono A, Shimzu M, Takizawa S (2005) The chemistry of allanite from the Daibosatsu Pass, Yamanshi, Japan, Mineralogical Magazine, 69, 403-423 [view file]

Armbruster T, Bonazzi P, Akasaka M, Bermanec V, Chopin C, Giere R, Huess-Assbichler S, Liebscher A, Menchetti S, Pan Y, Pasero M (2006) Recommended nomeclature of epidote-group minerals, European Journal of Mineralogy, 18, 551-567 [view file]

Hoshino M, Kimata M, Shimizu M, Nishida N, Fujiwara T (2006) Allanite-(Ce) in granitic rocks from Japan: genetic implications of patterns of REE and Mn enrichment, The Canadian Mineralogist, 44, 45-62 [view file]

Ercit T S, Piilonen P C, Rowe R (2007) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 92, 1539-1542 [view file]

Bonazzi P, Holtstam D, Bindi L, Nysten P, Capitani G (2009) Multi-analytical approach to solve the puzzle of an allanite-subgroup mineral from Kesebol, Västra Götaland, Sweden, American Mineralogist, 94, 121-134 [view file]

Cobić A, Bermanec V, Tomašić N, Škoda R (2010) The hydrothermal recrystallization of metamict allanite-(Ce), The Canadian Mineralogist, 48, 513-521 [view file]

Hoshino M, Kimata M, Chesner C A, Nishida N, Shimizu M, Akasaka T (2010) Crystal chemistry of volcanic allanites indicative of naturally induced oxidation-dehydrogenation, Mineralogy and Petrology, 99, 133-141

Hoshino M, Kimata M, Nishida N, Shimizu M (2010) Dissakisite-(Ce) chemical composition: some implications for its origins, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 37, 255-263

Hanson S L, Falster A U, Simmons W B, Brown Tj A (2012) Allanite-(Nd) from the Kingman Feldspar mine, Mojave Pegmatite District, Northwestern Arizona, USA, The Canadian Mineralogist, 50, 815-824 [view file]

Borst A M, Finch A A, Friis H, Horsburgh N J, Gamaletsos P N, Goettlicher J, Steininger R, Geraki K (2020) Structural state of rare earth elements in eudialyte-group minerals, Mineralogical Magazine, 84, 19-34

Shen C, Shu Z, Gu X, Dick J, Feng Y, Zheng H, Lu A (2022) Site splitting at M3 in allanite-(Ce), Mineralogical Magazine, 86, 134-140