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Name: Uvarovite RRUFF ID: R061041 Ideal Chemistry: Ca3Cr2(SiO4)3 Locality: Outokumpu, Finland Source: Royal Ontario Museum M52536 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Emerald-green euhedral crystal Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis |
Mineral Group: [ garnet (97) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Uvarovite samples (2) ] |
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POWDER DIFFRACTION | ||||||||
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RRUFF ID: | R061041.1 | |||||||
Sample Description: | Powder | |||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 11.9433(3)Å b: 11.9433(3)Å c: 11.9433(3)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 1703.6(1)Å3 Crystal System: cubic |
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REFERENCES for Uvarovite | |
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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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Hess H (1832) Ueber den Uwarowit, eine neue Mineralspecies, Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 24, 388-389 [view file] |
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Frankel J J (1959) Uvarovite garnet and South African jade (hydrogrossular) from the Bushveld Complex, Transvaal, American Mineralogist, 44, 565-591 [view file] |
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Sastri G G K (1963) Note on a chrome and two menganese garnets from India, Mineralogical Magazine, 33, 508-511 [view file] |
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Grubb P L C (1965) An unusual occurrence of diopside and uvarovite near Thetford, Quebec, The Canadian Mineralogist, 8, 241-248 [view file] |
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International Mineralogical Association (1967) Commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Magazine, 36, 131-136 [view file] |
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Manning P G (1969) Optical absorption studies of grossular, andradite (var. colophonite) and uvarovite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 9, 723-729 [view file] |
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Novak G A, Gibbs G V (1971) The crystal chemistry of the silicate garnets, American Mineralogist, 56, 791-825 [view file] |
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Challis A, Grapes R, Palmer K (1995) Chromian muscovite, uvarovite, and zincian chromite: products of regional metasomatism in northwest Nelson, New Zealand, The Canadian Mineralogist, 33, 1263-1284 [view file] |
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Kolesov B A, Geiger C A (1997) Raman scattering in silicate garnets an investigation of their resonance intensities, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 28, 659-662 [link] |
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Kolesov B A, Geiger C A (1998) Raman spectra of silicate garnets, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 25, 142-151 [link] |
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Proenza J, Solé J, Melgarejo J C (1999) Uvarovite in podiform chromitite: the MoaBaracoa ophiolitic massif, Cuba, The Canadian Mineralogist, 37, 679-690 [view file] |
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Milman V, Winkler B, Nobes R H, Akhmatchaya E V, Pickard C J, White J A (2000) Garnets: structure, compressibility, dynamics, and disorder, Journal of the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, 52, issue 7 22-25 |
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Manoun B, de Waal D, Merkle R (2001) The crystal chemistry and Raman spectroscopy of kimberlitic G-9 garnets, Crystal Engineering, 4, 283-291 [link] |
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Klemme S, Van Miltenburg J C, Javorsky P, Wastin F (2005) Thermodynamic properties of uvarovite garnet (Ca3Cr2Si3O12), American Mineralogist, 90, 663-666 [view file] |
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Teertstra D K (2006) Index-of-refraction and unit-cell constraints on cation valence and pattern of order in garnet-group minerals, The Canadian Mineralogist, 44, 341-346 [view file] |
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Moroz T, Ragozin A, Salikhov D, Belikova G, Puchkov V, Kagi H (2009) Micro-Raman spectra of ugrandite garnet, Spectrochimica Acta Part A-Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 73, 436-439 |
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Righter K, Sutton S, Danielson L, Pando K, Schmidt G, Yang H, Berthet S, Newville M, Choi Y, Downs R T, Malavergne V (2011) The effect of fO2 on the partitioning and valence of V and Cr in garnet/melt pairs and the relation to terrestrial mantle V and Cr content., American Mineralogist, 96, 1278-1290 [view file] |
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Grew E S, Locock A J, Mills S J, Galuskina I O, Galuskin E V, Hålenius U (2013) Nomenclature of the garnet supergroup, American Mineralogist, 98, 785-811 [view file] |
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Fan D, Xu J, Ma M, Wei S, Zhang B, Liu J, Xie H (2015) P-V-T equation of state of Ca3Cr2Si3O12 uvarovite garnet by using a diamond-anvil cell and in-situ synchrotron X-ray diffraction, American Mineralogist, 100, 588-597 |
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Caporuscio F A, Oberti R, Smyth J R (2019) X-site control on rare earth elements in eclogitic garnets an XRD study, European Journal of Mineralogy, 31, 453-463 |
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