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Name: Långbanite RRUFF ID: R050664 Ideal Chemistry: Mn2+4Mn3+9Sb5+O16(SiO4)2 Locality: Langban, Filipstad, Varmland, Sweden Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 2232 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Black metallic crystals Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis |
Quick search: [ All Långbanite samples (2) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R050664.1 | |||||||
Sample Description: | Powder | |||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 11.5523(7)Å b: 11.5523(7)Å c: 11.1411(8)Å alpha: 90.° beta: 90.° gamma: 120.° Volume: 1287.6(1)Å3 Crystal System: hexagonal |
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REFERENCES for Långbanite | |
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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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Flink G (1888) Ueber Långbanit, ein neues Mineral von Långbanshyttan in Wermland, Schweden, Zeitschrift für Krystallographie und Mineralogie, 13, 1-8 [view file] |
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Fleischer M (1968) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 53, 1775-1780 [view file] |
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Welin E (1968) Notes on the mineralogy of Sweden 6. X-ray powder data for minerals from Långban and the related mineral deposits of Central Sweden, Arkiv för Mineralogi och Geologi, 4, 499-541 |
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Moore P B (1970) Manganostibite: a novel cubic close-packed structure type, American Mineralogist, 55, 1489-1499 [view file] |
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International Mineralogical Association (1971) International Mineralogical Association: Commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Magazine, 38, 102-105 [view file] |
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Giuseppetti G, Mazzi F, Tadini C (1991) The crystal structure of monoclinic langbanite: (Mn,Ca,Fe,Mg)42+(Mn,Fe)3+9Sb5+[O16(SiO4)2], Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1991, 193-211 |
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Moore P B, Sen Gupta P K, Le Page Y (1991) The remarkable langbanite structure type: crystal structure, chemical crystallography, and relation to some other cation close-packed structures, American Mineralogist, 76, 1408-1425 [view file] |
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Jambor J L, Vanko D A (1992) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 77, 446-452 [view file] |
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