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Name: Trembathite RRUFF ID: R070756 Ideal Chemistry: Mg3B7O13Cl Locality: Salt Springs deposit, Sussex, Kings Co., New Brunswick, Canada Source: Michael Scott S104098 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Blue-green pseudocubic crystal Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. |
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Mineral Group: [ Boracite (9) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R070756.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 8.59(3)Å b: 8.59(3)Å c: 21.08(7)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 120° Volume: 1347(2)Å3 Crystal System: hexagonal |
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REFERENCES for Trembathite | |
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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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Nelmes R J (1974) Structural studies of boracites. A review of the properties of boracites, Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics, 7, 3841-3855 |
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Burns P C, Hawthorne F C, Stirling J A R (1992) Trembathite, (Mg,Fe)3B7O13Cl, a new borate mineral from the Salt Springs potash deposit, Sussex, New Brunswick, The Canadian Mineralogist, 30, 445-448 [view file] |
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Jambor J L, Grew E S (1993) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 78, 233-238 [view file] |
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Schindler M, Hawthorne F C (1995) The crystal structure of trembathite, (Mg1.55Fe1.43Mn0.02)B7O13Cl, a mineral of the boracite group: an example of the insertion of a cluster into a three-dimensional net, The Canadian Mineralogist, 36, 1195-1201 [view file] |
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Burns P C, Carpenter M A (1996) Phase transitions in the series boracite trembathite congolite: phase relations, The Canadian Mineralogist, 34, 881-892 [view file] |
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Burns P C, Carpenter M A (1997) Phase transitions in the series boracite trembathite congolite: an infrared spectroscopic study, The Canadian Mineralogist, 35, 189-202 [view file] |
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Wachowiak J, Pieczka A, (2012) Congolite and trembathite from the Kłodawa Salt Mine, Central Poland: records of the thermal history of the parental salt dome, The Canadian Mineralogist, 50, 1387-1399 [view file] |
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