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Name: Hingganite-(Y) RRUFF ID: R120171 Ideal Chemistry: BeY(SiO4)(OH) Locality: Zagi Mountain, Hameed Abad Kafoor Dheri, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan Source: Ikram Mineralogy [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Dark green to brown, dependent on light source, prismatic single crystal Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis. |
Mineral Group: [ Gadolinite (18) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Hingganite-(Y) samples (2) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R120171.9 | ||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 4.707(1)Å b: 7.551(3)Å c: 9.790(4)Å alpha: 90° beta: 91.14(3)° gamma: 90° Volume: 347.9(1)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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REFERENCES for Hingganite-(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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Semenov E I, Dusmatov V D, Samsonova N S (1963) Yttrium-beryllium minerals of the datolite group, Kristallografiya, 7, 677-679 [view file] |
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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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Yakubovich O V, Matvienko E N, Voloshin A V, Simonov M A (1983) The crystal structure of hingganite-(Yb), (Y0.51TR0.36Ca0.13)·Fe0.065Be[SiO4](OH), Soviet Physics - Crystallography, 28, 269-271 [view file] |
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Ding X, Bai G,Yuan Z, Liu J (1984) Hingganite [(Y,Ce)BeSiO5(OH)]: new data, Acta Petrologica Mineralogica et Analytica, 3, 46-48 |
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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, Minaglia A, Gramaccioli C M (2001) Characterization of gadolinite-group minerals using crystallographic data only: the case of hingganite-(Y) from Cuasso al Monte, Italy, The Canadian Mineralogist, 39, 1105-1114 [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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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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Larsen A O, koda R, Larsen K E (2013) Hingganite-(Y) from a syenite pegmatite at Virikkollen, Sandefjord, Vestfold, Norway, Stein, 2013, 23-25 |
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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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Gorelova L, Vereshchagin O, Cuchet S, Shilovskikh V, Pankin D (2020) Low-temperature crystal chemistry of hingganite-(Y), from the Wanni glacier, Switzerland, Minerals, 10, 322 [view file] |
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Atencio D (2023) Minasgeraisite-(Y) discredited as an ordered intermediate between datolite and hingganite-(Y), Mineralogical Magazine, 87, 738-740 |
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