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Name: Feruvite RRUFF ID: R061109 Ideal Chemistry: CaFe2+3(Al5Mg)(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH) Locality: Red Cross Lake, Manitoba, Canada Source: Michael Scott S104927 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Green fragment Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by single crystal X-ray diffraction. |
Mineral Group: [ tourmaline (49) ] |
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BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS | ||||||||||||
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POWDER DIFFRACTION | |||||||
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RRUFF ID: | R061109.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 15.96(2)Å b: 15.96(2)Å c: 7.195(9)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 120° Volume: 1587(5)Å3 Crystal System: hexagonal |
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REFERENCES for Feruvite | |
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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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Fleischer M (1956) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 41, 163-168 [view file] |
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Grice J D, Robinson G W (1989) Feruvite, a new member of the tourmaline group, and its crystal structure, The Canadian Mineralogist, 27, 199-203 [view file] |
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Jambor J L, Vanko D A (1990) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 75, 706-713 [view file] |
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Jiang S Y, Palmer M R, McDonald A M, Slack J F, Leitch C H B (1996) Feruvite from the Sullivan PbZnAg deposit, British Columbia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 34, 733-740 [view file] |
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Gashrova B, Mihailova B, Konstantinov L (1997) Raman spectra of various types of tourmaline, European Journal of Mineralogy, 9, 935-940 |
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Selway J B, Černý P, Hawthorne F C (1998) Feruvite from lepidolite pegmatites at Red Cross Lake, Manitoba, The Canadian Mineralogist, 36, 433-439 [view file] |
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Cámara F, Ottolini L, Hawthorne F C (2002) Crystal chemistry of three tourmalines by SREF, EMPA and SIMS, American Mineralogist, 87, 1437-1442 [view file] |
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Henry D J, Novák M, Hawthorne F C, Ertl A, Dutrow B L, Uher P, Pezzotta F (2011) Nomenclature of the tourmaline-supergroup minerals, American Mineralogist, 96, 895-913 [view file] |
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Gadas P, Novák M, Cempírek J, Filip J, Galiová M V, Groat L A, Všianský D (2014) Mineral assemblages, compositional variation, and crystal structure of feruvitic tourmaline from a contaminated anatectic pegmatite at Mirošov near Strážek, Moldanubian zone, Czech Republic, The Canadian Mineralogist, 52, 285-301 |
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Bosi F (2018) Tourmaline crystal chemistry, American Mineralogist, 103, 298-306 [view file] |
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