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Belovite-(Ce) R070163

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Name: Belovite-(Ce)
RRUFF ID: R070163
Ideal Chemistry: NaCeSr3(PO4)3F
Locality: Mochalin Log, Kyshtym, Chelyabinsk Oblast', Urals Region, Russia
Source: Michael Scott S105765 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Brownish red vitreous massive, associated with bastnasite-(La), R070142; 785 Raman signal was overwhelmed by fluorescence and is not posted.
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by single crystal X-ray diffraction.
Mineral Group: [ Apatite (56) ]
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
RRUFF ID:
Sample Description: Unoriented sample
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BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS
RRUFF ID: R070163
Wavelength:
Sample Description: Unoriented sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW
POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R070163.9
Sample Description: Single crystal, powder profile is calculated
Cell Refinement Output: a: 9.639(3)Å    b: 9.639(3)Å    c: 7.073(1)Å
alpha: 90°    beta: 90°    gamma: 120°   Volume: 569.1(1)Å3    Crystal System: hexagonal
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Calculated diffraction file.

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

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REFERENCES for Belovite-(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]

Nefedov E I (1953) Report on new minerals discovered by him p.317 in V. A. Mokievsky. The scientific session of the Federov Institute together with the All-Union Mineralogical Society, Zapiski Vsesoyuznogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva, 82, issue 4 311-317   [view file]

Borodin L S, Kazakova M E (1954) Belovite - a new mineral from an alkaline pegmatite, Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, 96, 613-616   [view file]

Fleischer M (1955) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 40, 551-554   [view file]

Yagi K, Fleischer M (1955) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 40, 367-370   [view file]

Pekov I V, Chukanov N V, Beletskaya O V, Khomyakov A P, Menshikov Y P (1995) Belovite-(Ce): New data, refined formula and relationship to other minerals of the apatite group, Zapiski Vserossijskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva, 124, 98-110   [view file]

Jambor J L, Kovalenker V A, Puziewics J, Roberts A C (1996) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 81, 1282-1286   [view file]

Rakovan J F, Hughes J M (2000) Strontium in the apatite structure: strontian fluorapatite and belovite-(Ce), The Canadian Mineralogist, 38, 839-845   [view file]

Pasero M, Kampf A R, Ferraris C, Pekov I V, Rakovan J R, White T J (2010) Nomenclature of the apatite supergroup minerals, European Journal of Mineralogy, 22, 163-179   [view file]