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Name: Brannockite RRUFF ID: R070278 Ideal Chemistry: KSn2(Li3Si12)O30 Locality: Foote Lithium County mine (Foote mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland County, North Carolina, USA Source: Michael Scott S101215 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Thin colorless hexagonal plates that fluoresce sky blue under short wave ultraviolet light, associated with colorless quartz Status: The identification of this mineral is not yet confirmed. |
Mineral Group: [ Milarite (18) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Brannockite samples (2) ] |
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REFERENCES for Brannockite | |
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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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Fleischer M (1973) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 58, 1111-1115 [view file] |
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White J S, Arem J E, Nelen J A, Leavens P B, Thomssen R W (1973) Brannockite, a new tin mineral, The Mineralogical Record, 4, 73-76 [view file] |
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Armbruster T, Oberänsli R (1988) Crystal chemistry of double-ring silicates: Structures of sugilite and brannockite, American Mineralogist, 73, 595-600 [view file] |
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Gagné O C, Hawthorne F C (2016) Chemographic exploration of the milarite-type structure, The Canadian Mineralogist, 54, 1229-1247 |
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Raschke M B, Anderson E J D, Allaz J, Friis H, Smyth J R, Tschernich R, Becker R (2016) Crystal chemistry of brannockite, KLi3Sn2Si12O30, from a new occurrence in the Golden Horn Batholith, Washington State, USA, European Journal of Mineralogy, 28, 153-161 |
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