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Name: Xenotime-(Y) RRUFF ID: R120080 Ideal Chemistry: Y(PO4) Locality: Clora May mine, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA Source: Rudy Bolona Owner: RRUFF Description: Yellow-brown massive Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by single crystal X-ray diffraction. |
Mineral Group: [ Zircon (35) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Xenotime-(Y) samples (3) ] |
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POWDER DIFFRACTION | |||||||
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RRUFF ID: | R120080.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 6.910(1)Å b: 6.910(1)Å c: 6.040(1)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 288.39(7)Å3 Crystal System: tetragonal |
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REFERENCES for Xenotime-(Y) | |
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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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Beudant F S (1832) Xenotime, yttria phosphatée, in Traité Élémentaire de Minéralogie, 2nd Edition Paris 552-553 [view file] |
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Strada M, Schwendimann G (1934) La struttura cristallina di alcuni fosfati ed arseniati di metalli trivalenti. II. Arseniato e fosfato di ittrio, Gazzetta Chimica Italiana, 64, 662-674 [view file] |
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Hutton C O (1947) Determination of xenotime, American Mineralogist, 32, 141-145 [view file] |
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Hutton C O (1950) Studies of heavy detrital minerals, Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 61, 635-710 [view file] |
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Shaw D M (1957) Xenotime from St. Siméon, Charlevoix County, Quebec, The Canadian Mineralogist, 6, 61-67 [view file] |
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Krstanovic I (1965) Redetermination of oxygen parameters in xenotime, YPO4, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 121, 315-316 [view file] |
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Nickel E H, Mandarino J A (1987) Procedures involving the IMA Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names and guidelines on mineral nomenclature, American Mineralogist, 72, 1031-1042 [view file] |
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Demartin F, Pilati T, Diella V, Donzelli S, Gentile P, Gramaccioli C M (1991) The chemical composition of xenotime from fissures and pegmatites in the Alps, The Canadian Mineralogist, 29, 69-75 [view file] |
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Ni Y, Hughes J M, Mariano A N (1995) Crystal chemistry of the monazite and xenotime structures, American Mineralogist, 80, 21-26 [view file] |
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Sabourdy G, Sagon J P, Pastier P (1997) La composition chimique du xénotime en Limousin, Massif Central, France, The Canadian Mineralogist, 35, 937-946 [view file] |
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Van Emden B, Thornber M R, Graham J, Lincoln F J (1997) The incorporation of actinides in monazite and xenotime from placer deposits in Western Australia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 35, 95-104 [view file] |
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Ondru P, Veselovský F, Gabaová A, Hlouek J, rein V, Vavrín I, Skála R, Sejkora J, Drábek M (2003) Primary minerals of the Jáchymov ore district, Journal of the Czech Geological Society, 48, 19-147 [view file] |
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Prek J, Ondrejka M, Bačík P, Budzyń B, Uher P (2010) Metamorphic-hydrothermal REE minerals in the Bacúch Magnetite Deposit, Western Carpathians, Slovakia: (Sr,S)-rich monazite-(Ce) and Nd-dominant hingganite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 48, 81-94 [view file] |
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Bačík P, Uher P, Ertl A, Jonsson E, Nysten P, Kanický V, Vaculovič T (2012) Zoned REE-enriched dravite from a granitic pegmatite in Forshammar Bergslagen Province, Sweden: An EMPA, XRD and LA-ICP-MS study, The Canadian Mineralogist, 50, 825-841 [view file] |
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Bastos Neto A C, Pereira V P, Pires A C, Barbanson L, Chauvet A (2012) Fluorine-rich xenotime from the world-class Madeira Nb-Ta-Sn deposit associated with the albite-enriched granite at Pitinga, Amazonia, Brazil, The Canadian Mineralogist, 50, 1453-1466 [view file] |
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Guastoni A, Nestola F, Ferraris C, Parodi G (2012) Xenotime-(Y) and Sn-rich thortveitite in miarolitic pegmatites from Baveno, Southern Alps, Italy, Mineralogical Magazine, 76, 761-767 [view file] |
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Andersen A K, Clark J G, Larson P B, Neill O K (2016) Mineral chemistry and petrogenesis of a HFSE(+HREE) occurrence, peripheral to carbonatites of the Bear Lodge alkaline complex, Wyoming, American Mineralogist, 101, 1604-1623 |
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Guastoni A, Pozzi G, Secco L, Schiazza M, Pennacchioni G, Fioretti A M, Nestola F (2016) Monazite-(Ce) and xenotime-(Y) from an LCT, NYF tertiary pegmatite field: Evidence from a regional study in the Central Alps (Italy and Switzerland), The Canadian Mineralogist, 54, 863-877 |
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Alves F E A, Neumann R, Ávila C A, Faulstich F R L (2019) Monazite-(Ce) and xenotime-(Y) microinclusions in fluorapatite of the pegmatites from the Volta Grande mine, Minas Gerais state, southeast Brazil, as witnesses of the dissolution reprecipitation process, Mineralogical Magazine, 83, 595-606 |
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Borst A M, Finch A A, Friis H, Horsburgh N J, Gamaletsos P N, Goettlicher J, Steininger R, Geraki K (2020) Structural state of rare earth elements in eudialyte-group minerals, Mineralogical Magazine, 84, 19-34 |
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Pagliaro F, Lotti P, Guastoni A, Rotiroti N, Battiston T, Gatta G D (2022) Crystal chemistry and miscibility of chernovite-(Y), xenotime-(Y), gasparite-(Ce) and monazite-(Ce) from Mt. Cervandone, Western Alps, Italy, Mineralogical Magazine, 86, 150-167 |
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