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Name: Proto-ferro-suenoite RRUFF ID: R061000 Ideal Chemistry: ◻Mn2+2Fe2+5Si8O22(OH)2 Locality: Yokoneyama, Tochigi, Japan Source: Michael Scott S101306 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Gray prismatic to fibrous associated with pyroxmangite R060999 Status: The identification of this mineral has been made only by X-ray diffraction. |
Mineral Group: [ amphibole (107) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R061000.1 | |||||||
Sample Description: | Powder | |||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 9.439(1)Å b: 18.289(3)Å c: 5.354(1)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 924.2(2)Å3 Crystal System: orthorhombic |
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REFERENCES for Proto-ferro-suenoite | |
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Sueno S, Matsuura S, Gibbs G V, Boisen M B (1998) A crystal chemical study of protoanthophyllite: orthoamphiboles with the protoamphibole structure, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 25, 366-377 |
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Jambor J L, Roberts A C (1999) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 84, 193-198 [view file] |
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Sueno S, Matsuura S, Bunno M, Kurosawa M (2002) Occurrence and crystal chemical features of protoferro-anthophyllite and protomangano-ferro-anthophyllite from Cheyenne Canyon and Cheyenne Mountain, U.S.A. and Hirukawa-mura, Suisho-yama, and Yokone-yama, Japan, Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences, 97, 127-136 [view file] |
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Burke E A J, Leake B E (2004) "Named amphiboles": a new category of amphiboles recognized by the International Mineralogical Association (IMA), and the proper order of prefixes to be used in amphibole names, The Canadian Mineralogist, 42, 1881-1883 [view file] |
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Williams P A, Hatert F, Pasero M, Mills S J (2013) IMA Commission on new minerals, nomenclature and classification (CNMNC) Newsletter 16. New minerals and nomenclature modifications approved in 2013, Mineralogical Magazine, 77, 2695-2709 [view file] |
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Oberti R, Boiocchi M, Hawthorne F C, Ciriotti M E, Revheim O, Bracco R (2018) Clino-suenoite, a newly approved magnesium-iron-manganese amphibole from Valmalenco, Sondrio, Italy, Mineralogical Magazine, 82, 189-198 [view file] |
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