Stillwellite-(Ce) R060911
Name: Stillwellite-(Ce)
RRUFF ID: R060911
Ideal Chemistry: CeBSiO5
Locality: Dimbulah, Queensland, Australia
Source: Royal Ontario Museum M52515 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Dark orange crystalline blebs intergrown with fluorapatite
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction.
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RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented Raman on the primary sample
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Sample Description: Unoriented Raman on the primary sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 50% of 150mW
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POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R060911.9
Sample Description: Single crystal, powder profile is calculated
Cell Refinement Output: a: 6.892(8)Å    b: 6.892(8)Å    c: 6.703(7)Å
alpha: 90°    beta: 90°    gamma: 120°   Volume: 275.8(2)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 Stillwellite-(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]

McAndrew J, Scott T R (1955) Stillwellite, a new rare-earth mineral from Queensland, Nature, 176, 509-510

Fleischer M (1956) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 41, 370-372   [view file]

Voronkov A A, Pyatenko Y A (1967) X-ray diffraction study of the atomic structure of stillwellite CeBO[SiO4], Soviet Physics - Crystallography, 12, 214-220   [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]

Callegari A, Giuseppetti G, Mazzi F, Tadini C (1992) The refinement of the crystal structure of stillwellite: RE[BSiO5], Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1992, 49-57

Jambor J L (1992) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 77, 1305-1309   [view file]

Burns P C, Hawthorne F C, MacDonald D J, Della Ventura G, Parodi G C (1993) The crystal structure of stillwellite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 31, 147-152   [view file]

Belokoneva E L (1996) Crystal structure of a high-temperature modification of LaBSiO5, a synthetic analog of stillwellite, Zhurnal Neorganicheskoi Khimii, 41, 1097-1101

Ono Y, Takayama K, Kajitani T (1996) X-ray diffraction study of LaBSiO5, Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 65, 3224-3228

Park C-H, Bluhm K, (1996) Zur Synthese und Kristallstruktur von Bariumboroarsenat Ba(BAsO5) mit einem Beitrag über Bariumorthoarsenat Ba3(AsO4)2, Zeitschrift für Naturforschung B Chemical Science, 51, 722-726

Chi L, Chen H, Zhuang H, Huang J (1997) Crystal structure of LaBSiO5, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 252, L12-L15

Shi Y, Liang J K, Zhang H, Yang J L, Zhuang W D, Rao G H (1997) Crystal structure and vibrational spectra studies of stillwellite compounds NdBSiO5, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 259, 163-169