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Bastnäsite-(Ce) R060629

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Name: Bastnäsite-(Ce)
RRUFF ID: R060629
Ideal Chemistry: Ce(CO3)F
Locality: Pakistan
Source: Gemological Institute of America 03 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Orange gemmy fragment
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis
Mineral Group: [ Bastnasite (7) ]
Quick search: [ All Bastnäsite-(Ce) samples (5) ]
CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R060629.2
Sample Description: Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry: (Ce0.53Nd0.25La0.22)Σ=1CO3F1.00
Microprobe Data File: [ Download Excel File ]
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample; 780 spectrum overwhelmed by fluorescence
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RRUFF ID: R060629
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample; 780 spectrum overwhelmed by fluorescence
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW
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POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R060629.1
Sample Description: Powder
Cell Refinement Output: a: 7.0954(4)Å    b: 7.0954(4)Å    c: 9.7398(6)Å
alpha: 90.°    beta: 90.°    gamma: 120.°   Volume: 424.66(4)Å3    Crystal System: hexagonal
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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Bastnäsite-(Ce)

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]

Huot J J N (1841) Genre. Lanthane. 2 Espèce, Bastnaesite, in Manuels-Roret. Nouveau Manuel Complet de Minéralogie, Première Partie Paris 296-296   [view file]

Geijer P (1921) The cerium minerals of Bastnäs at Riddarhyttan, Sveriges Geologiska Undersökning, Arsbok 14 (1920) 304, 1-24   [view file]

Oftedal I (1931) Zur kristallstruktur von bastnäsit (Ce,La--)FCO3, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 78, 462-469   [view file]

Glass J J, Smalley R G (1945) Bastnäsite, American Mineralogist, 30, 601-615   [view file]

Donnay G, Donnay J D H (1953) The crystallography of bastnaesite, parisite, roentgenite, and synchisite, American Mineralogist, 38, 932-963   [view file]

Fleischer M (1954) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 39, 402-408   [view file]

Levinson A A (1966) A system of nomenclature for rare-earth minerals, American Mineralogist, 51, 152-158   [view file]

Černý P, Černá I (1972) Bastnaesite after allanite from Rough Rock Lake, Ontario, The Canadian Mineralogist, 11, 541-543   [view file]

Nickel E H, Mandarino J A (1987) Procedures involving the IMA Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names and guidelines on mineral nomenclature, American Mineralogist, 72, 1031-1042   [view file]

Ni Y, Hughes J M, Mariano A N, (1993) The atomic arrangement of bastnasite-(Ce), Ce(CO3)F, and structural elements of synchysite-(Ce), röntgenite-(Ce), and parisite-(Ce), American Mineralogist, 78, 415-418   [view file]

Haxel G B, Hedrick J B, Orris G J (2002) Rare Earth Elements - critical resources for high technology, U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet, 087-02, 1-4   [view file]

Frost R L, Dickfos M J (2007) Raman spectroscopy of halogen-containing carbonates, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 38, 1516-1522

Holtstam D, Andersson U B (2007) The REE minerals of the Bastnäs-type deposits, south-central Sweden, The Canadian Mineralogist, 45, 1073-1114   [view file]

Guastoni A, Nestola F, Giaretta A (2009) Mineral chemistry and alteration of rare earth element (REE) carbonates from alkaline pegmatites of Mount Malosa, Malawi, American Mineralogist, 94, 1216-1222   [view file]

Turner D J, Rivard B, Groat L A (2014) Visible and short-wave infrared reflectance spectroscopy of REE fluorocarbonates, American Mineralogist, 99, 1335-1346

Shivaramaiah R, Anderko A, Riman R E, Navrotsky A (2016) Thermodynamics of bastnaesite: A major rare earth ore mineral, American Mineralogist, 101, 1129-1134

Giebel R J, Gauert C D K, Marks M A W, Costin G, Markl G (2017) Multi-stage formation of REE minerals in the Palabora Carbonatite Complex, South Africa, American Mineralogist, 102, 1218-1233

Capitani G (2019) HRTEM investigation of bastnäsite-parisite intergrowths from Mount Malosa (Malawi): ordered sequences, polysomatic faults, polytypic disorder, and a new parisite-(Ce) polymorph, European Journal of Mineralogy, 31, 429-442

Vennari C E, Williams Q (2019) High-pressure Raman and Nd3+ luminescence spectroscopy of bastnäsite-(REE)CO3F, American Mineralogist, 104, 1389-1401   [view file]

Borst A M, Finch A A, Friis H, Horsburgh N J, Gamaletsos P N, Goettlicher J, Steininger R, Geraki K (2020) Structural state of rare earth elements in eudialyte-group minerals, Mineralogical Magazine, 84, 19-34

Conconi R, Fumagalli P, Capitani G (2023) A multi-methodological study of the bastnäsite-synchysite polysomatic series: Tips and tricks of polysome identification and the origin of syntactic intergrowths, American Mineralogist, 108, 1658-1668