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Name: Bustamite RRUFF ID: R040014 Ideal Chemistry: Mn2Ca2MnCa(Si3O9)2 Locality: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 13651 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Orange fragment Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis |
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Mineral Group: [ Wollastonite (6) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R040014.1 | |||||||
Sample Description: | Powder | |||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 9.844(1)Å b: 10.755(1)Å c: 7.128(2)Å alpha: 99.58(2)° beta: 99.76(2)° gamma: 83.878(9)° Volume: 731.0(2)Å3 Crystal System: triclinic |
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REFERENCES for Bustamite | |
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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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Brongniart A (1826) Sur la bustamite, bisilicate de manganèse et de chaux du Mexique, Anneles des Sciences Naturelles, 8, 411-418 [view file] |
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Larsen E S, Shannon E V (1922) Bustamite from Franklin Furnace, New Jersey, American Mineralogist, 7, 95-100 [view file] |
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Hutton C O (1956) Manganpyrosmalite, bustamite, ferroan johannsenite from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia, American Mineralogist, 41, 581-591 [view file] |
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Peacor D R, Buerger M J (1962) Determination and refinement of the crystal structure of bustamite, CaMnSi2O6, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 117, 331-343 [view file] |
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Manning P G (1968) Absorption spectra of the manganese-bearing chain silicates pyroxmangite, rhodonite, bustamite and serandite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 9, 348-357 [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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Rapoport P A, Burnham C W (1973) Ferrobustamite: The crystal structures of two Ca,Fe bustamite-type pyroxenoids, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 138, 419-438 [view file] |
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Ohashi Y, Finger L W (1978) The role of octahedral cations in pyroxenoid crystal chemistry. I. Bustamite, wollastonite, and the pectoliteschizoliteserandite series, American Mineralogist, 63, 274-288 [view file] |
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Viswanathan K, Harneit O (1986) Lattice expansion and ionic substitution in common pyroxenoids, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 94, 238-244 |
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Hybler J, Petrícek V, Jurek K, Skála R, Císarová I (1997) Structure determination of vistepite SnMn4B2Si4O16(OH)2: isotypism with bustamite, revised crystallographic data and composition, The Canadian Mineralogist, 35, 1283-1292 [view file] |
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Shannon R D, Shannon R C, Medenbach O, Fischer R X (2002) Refractive index and dispersion of fluorides and oxides, Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data, 31, 931-970 [view file] |
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Makreski P, Jovanovski G, Gajović A, Biljan T, Angelovski D, Jaćimović R (2006) Minerals from Macedonia. XVI. Vibrational spectra of some common appearing pyroxenes and pyroxenoids, Journal of Molecular Structure, 788, 102-114 |
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Aksenov S M, Shipalkina N V, Rastsvetaeva R K, Rusakov R V, Pekov I V, Chukanov N V, Yapaskurt V O (2015) Iron-rich bustamite from Broken Hill, Australia: the crystal structure and cation-ordering features, Crystallography Reports, 60, 340-345 |
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