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Name: Bindheimite RRUFF ID: R050546 Ideal Chemistry: Pb2Sb5+2O7 Locality: Arabia District, Pershing County, Nevada, USA Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 4882 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Yellow-brown coarsely fibrous massive, intimately mixed with mimetite Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis |
Mineral Group: [ pyrochlore (28) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R050546.1 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Powder | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 10.4424(8)Å b: 10.4424(8)Å c: 10.4424(8)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 1138.7(3)Å3 Crystal System: cubic |
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REFERENCES for Bindheimite | |
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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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Karsten D L G (1800) Anmerkungen, in Mineralogische Tabellen Heinrich August Rottmann Berlin 77-77 [view file] |
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Dana J D, Brush G J (1868) 586. Bindheimite, in A System of Mineralogy, Fifth Edition John Wiley and Sons New York 591-591 [view file] |
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Natta G, Baccaredda M (1933) Tetrossido di antimonio e antimoniati, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 85, 271-296 [view file] |
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Mason B, Vitaliano C J (1952) The mineralogy of the antimony oxides and antimonates, Mineralogical Magazine, 30, 100-112 [view file] |
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Gasperin M (1955) Synthèse et identification de deux oxydes doubles de tantale et d'étain, Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences, 240, 2340-2342 [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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Christy A G, Gatedal K (2005) Extremely Pb-rich rock-forming silicates including a beryllian scapolite and associated minerals in a skarn from Långban, Värmland, Sweden, Mineralogical Magazine, 69, 995-1018 [view file] |
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Atencio D, Andrade M B, Christy A G, Gieré R, Kartashov P M (2010) The pyrochlore supergroup of minerals: nomenclature, The Canadian Mineralogist, 48, 673-698 [view file] |
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Christy A G, Atencio D (2013) Clarification of status of species in the pyrochlore supergroup, Mineralogical Magazine, 77, 13-20 [view file] |
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