Clinofergusonite-(Y) R080103
Name: Clinofergusonite-(Y)
RRUFF ID: R080103
Ideal Chemistry: YNbO4
Locality: Arendal, Aust-Agder, Norway
Source: James Shigley [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Olive green fragment from metamict sample R070600, after heating at T = 1000 C for 20 hours
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction.
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RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW
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POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R080103.1
Sample Description: Powder
Cell Refinement Output: a: 7.642(2)Å    b: 10.975(1)Å    c: 5.315(1)Å
alpha: 90°    beta: 138.56(1)°    gamma: 90°   Volume: 295.00(7)Å3    Crystal System: monoclinic
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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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

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REFERENCES for Clinofergusonite-(Y)

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]

Fleischer M (1961) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 46, 1513-1520   [view file]

Gorshevskaya S A, Sidorenko G A, Smorchkov I E (1961) A new modification of fergusonite: β-fergusonite, Geologiya Rudnykh Mestorozhdenii, 9, 28-29   [view file]

Weitzel H, Schröcke H (1980) Kristallstrukturverfeinerungen von euxenit, Y(Nb0.5Ti0.5)2O6, und M-fergusonit, YNbO4, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 152, 69-82   [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]

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

Errandonea D, Monjón F J, Somayazulu M, Häusermann D (2004) Effects of pressure on the local atomic structure of CaWO4 and YLiF4: mechanism of the scheelite-to-wolframite and scheelite-to-fergusonite transitions, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 177, 1087-1097

Guastoni A, Cámara F, Nestola F (2010) Arsenic-rich fergusonite-beta-(Y) from Mount Cervandone (Western Alps, Italy): Crystal structure and genetic implications, American Mineralogist, 95, 487-494   [view file]

Miyawaki R, Hatert F, Pasero M, Mills S J (2022) IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) Newsletter 69, European Journal of Mineralogy, 34, 463-468   [view file]

Hatert F, Mills S J, Pasero M, Miyawaki R, Bosi F (2023) CNMNC guidelines for the nomenclature of polymorphs and polysomes, Mineralogical Magazine, 87, 225-232