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|   |   | Name: Milarite RRUFF ID: R120135 Ideal Chemistry: KCa2(Be2AlSi12)O30·H2O Locality: Jaguaraçu, Minas Gerais, Brazil Source: Luiz Menezes [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Pale yellow hexagonal prisms, associated with minasgeraisite-(Y) R120134 Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by single crystal X-ray diffraction. | 
| Mineral Group: [ Milarite (18) ] | ||
| Quick search: [ All Milarite samples (3) ] | ||
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| RRUFF ID: | R120135.9 | ||||||
| Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
| Cell Refinement Output: | a: 10.3850(9)Å    b: 10.3850(9)Å    c: 13.7979(7)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 120° Volume: 1288.7(2)Å3 Crystal System: hexagonal | ||||||
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| REFERENCES for Milarite | |
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| American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record] | |
| 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] | |
| Kenngott A (1870) Mittheilungen an Professor G. Leonhard, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Palaontologie, 1870, 80-81 [view file] | |
| Goβner B, Muβgnug F (1930) Über Alstonit und Milarit, Centralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie, 1930, 220-238 | |
| Palache C (1931) On the presence of beryllium in milarite, American Mineralogist, 16, 469-470 [view file] | |
| Belov N V (1957) New silicate structures, Acta Crystallographica, 10, 757-758 | |
| Černý P, Hawthorne F C, Jarosewich E (1980) Crystal chemistry of milarite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 18, 41-57 [view file] | |
| Armbruster T, Bermanec V, Wenger M, Oberhansli R (1989) Crystal chemistry of double-ring silicates: Structure of natural and dehydrated milarite at 100 K, European Journal of Mineralogy, 1, 353-362 | |
| Černý P, Hawthorne F C, Jambor J L, Grice J D (1991) Yttrian milarite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 29, 533-541 [view file] | |
| Roth P (2007) Milarite, in Minerals first discovered in Switzerland and minerals named after Swiss individuals Kristallografik Verlag Achberg Germany 112-113 | |
| Gagné O C, Hawthorne F C (2016) Chemographic exploration of the milarite-type structure, The Canadian Mineralogist, 54, 1229-1247 | |
| Hawthorne F C, Sokolova E, Pautov L A, Agakhanov A A, Karpenko V Y (2016) Refinement of the crystal structure of berezanskite, Ti2◻2KLi3(Si12O30), Mineralogical Magazine, 80, 733-737 | |
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