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Name: Muirite RRUFF ID: R140248 Ideal Chemistry: Ba10Ca2Mn2+TiSi10O30(OH,Cl,F)10 Locality: Esquire No. 7 Claim, Big Creek, Fresno County, California, USA Source: Rock Currier [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Scattered orange grains and aggregates associated with taramellite, walstromite and sanbornite. Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. |
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RRUFF ID: | R140248.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
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a: 14.064(2)Å b: 14.064(2)Å c: 5.689(1)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 1125.3(1)Å3 Crystal System: tetragonal |
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REFERENCES for Muirite | |
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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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Alfors J T, Putman G W (1965) Revised chemical analyses of traskite, verplanckite and muirite from Fresno County, California, American Mineralogist, 50, 1500-1503 [view file] |
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Alfors J T, Stinson M C, Matthews R A, Pabst A (1965) Seven new barium minerals from eastern Fresno County, California, American Mineralogist, 50, 314-340 [view file] |
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Khan A A, Baur W H (1971) Eight-membered cyclosilicate rings in muirite, Science, 173, 916-918 |
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Malinovskii Y A, Pobedimskaya E A, Belov N V (1975) Crystal structure of muirite Ba9(Ca,Ba)(Ca,Ti)4(OH)8[Si8O24](Cl,OH)8, Soviet Physics - Doklady, 20, 163-164 [view file] |
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