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Name: Guilleminite RRUFF ID: R090007 Ideal Chemistry: Ba(UO2)3(Se4+O3)2O2·3H2O Locality: Musonoi mine, Kolwezi, Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo Source: William W. Pinch Owner: RRUFF Description: Yellow transparent thin tabular crystals removed from the structure type specimen of Cooper & Hawthorne (1995) study Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. |
Mineral Group: [ Guilleminite (3) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R090007.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 7.084(2)Å b: 7.296(4)Å c: 16.887(9)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 873(1)Å3 Crystal System: orthorhombic |
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REFERENCES for Guilleminite | |
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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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Fleischer M (1965) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 50, 2096-2111 [view file] |
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Pierrot R, Toussaint J, Verbeek T (1965) La guilleminite, une nouvelle espèce minérale, Bulletin de la Société Française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie, 88, 132-135 [view file] |
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Cooper M A, Hawthorne F C (1995) The crystal structure of guilleminite, a hydrated BaUSe sheet structure, The Canadian Mineralogist, 33, 1103-1109 [view file] |
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Jambor J L, Pertsev N N, Roberts A C (1996) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 81, 766-770 [view file] |
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Cooper M A, Hawthorne F C (2001) Structure topology and hydrogen bonding in marthozite, Cu2+[(UO2)3(SeO3)2O2](H2O)8, a comparison with guilleminite, Ba[(UO2)3(SeO3)2O2](H2O)3, The Canadian Mineralogist, 39, 797-807 [view file] |
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