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Name: Hingganite-(Ce) RRUFF ID: R060857 Ideal Chemistry: BeCe(SiO4)(OH) Locality: Tatyana pegmatite, Haldzan Buregteg massif, Mongolia Source: Michael Scott S101013 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Brown vitreous fragments Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by single crystal X-ray diffraction. |
Mineral Group: [ Gadolinite (18) ] |
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POWDER DIFFRACTION | |||||||
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RRUFF ID: | R060857.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 4.77(2)Å b: 7.66(3)Å c: 10.04(3)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90.3(1)° gamma: 90° Volume: 366.9(4)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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REFERENCES for Hingganite-(Ce) | |
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American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record] |
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Ding X, Bai G,Yuan Z, Sun L (1981) Yttroceberysite, a new Ce-Be-rich silicate, Geological Review, 27, 459-466 [view file] |
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Lulu X M, Zhi-Zhong P (1986) Crystal structure of xinganite, Geochemistry, 5, 280-285 |
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Jambor J L, Puziewicz J (1990) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 75, 431-438 [view file] |
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Miyawaki R, Matsubara S, Yokoyama K, Okamoto A (2007) Hingganite-(Ce) and hingganite-(Y) from Tahara, Hirukawa-mura, Gifu Prefecture, Japan: The description on a new mineral species of the Ce-analogue of hingannite-(Y) with a refinement of the crystal structure of hingganite-(Y), Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences, 102, 1-7 [view file] |
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Piilonen P C, Poirier G, Tait K T (2008) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 93, 1686-1691 [view file] |
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Poirier G, Ercit T S, Tait K T, Piilonen P C, Rowe R (2009) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 94, 399-408 [view file] |
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Chakrabarty A, Mitchell R H, Ren M, Sen A K, Pruseth K L (2013) Rinkite, cerianite-(Ce), and hingganite-(Ce) in syenite gneisses from the Sushina Hill Complex, India: occurrence, compositional data and petrogenetic significance, Mineralogical Magazine, 77, 3137-3153 [view file] |
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Bačík P, Miyawaki R, Atencio D, Cámara F, Fridrichová (2017) Nomenclature of the gadolinite supergroup, European Journal of Mineralogy, 29, 1067-1082 |
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