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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) ] |
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POWDER DIFFRACTION | |||||||
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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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REFERENCES for Belovite-(Ce) | |
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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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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] |
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Borodin L S, Kazakova M E (1954) Belovite - a new mineral from an alkaline pegmatite, Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, 96, 613-616 [view file] |
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Fleischer M (1955) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 40, 551-554 [view file] |
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Yagi K, Fleischer M (1955) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 40, 367-370 [view file] |
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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] |
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Jambor J L, Kovalenker V A, Puziewics J, Roberts A C (1996) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 81, 1282-1286 [view file] |
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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] |
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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] |
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