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Aluminocerite-(CeCa)

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Aluminocerit-(Ce)
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Aluminocerit-(Ce)
Bildbreite: 2 mm; Fundort: Seula Mine, Monte Camoscio, Oltrefiume, Baveno, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piemont, Italien
Copyright: Matteo Chinellato; Contribution: Hg
Location: Italien/Piemont (Piemonte), Region/Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Provinz/Baveno/Oltrefiume/Monte Camoscio/Montecatini-Steinbruch (Seula Mine)
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Bildbreite: 2 mm; Fundort: Seula Mine, Monte Camoscio, Oltrefiume, Baveno, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piemont, Italien
Copyright: Matteo Chinellato
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Locality: Montecatini-Steinbruch (Seula Mine) / Monte Camoscio / Oltrefiume / Baveno / Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Provinz / Piemont (Piemonte), Region / Italien
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Bildbreite: 4 mm, Fundort: Seula Mine, Monte Camoscio, Oltrefiume, Baveno, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piemont, Italien
Copyright: Luigi Chiappino; Contribution: thdun5
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Bildbreite: 4 mm, Fundort: Seula Mine, Monte Camoscio, Oltrefiume, Baveno, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piemont, Italien
Copyright: Luigi Chiappino
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Locality: Montecatini-Steinbruch (Seula Mine) / Monte Camoscio / Oltrefiume / Baveno / Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Provinz / Piemont (Piemonte), Region / Italien
Aluminocerit-(Ce) (rosa) auf Chevkinit-(Ce)
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Aluminocerit-(Ce) (rosa) auf Chevkinit-(Ce)
Bildbreite: 4 mm; Fundort: Tsakhirin Khuduk Y-Zr-Nb-Lagerstätte, Khaldzan-Buragtag-Massiv, Altai-Hochgebirge, Chowd-Aimag, Mongolei
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Location: Mongolei/Chowd, Aimag/Altai-Hochgebirge/Khaldzan-Buragtag-Massiv/Tsakhirin Khuduk Y-Zr-Nb-Lagerstätte
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Aluminocerit-(Ce) (rosa) auf Chevkinit-(Ce)

Bildbreite: 4 mm; Fundort: Tsakhirin Khuduk Y-Zr-Nb-Lagerstätte, Khaldzan-Buragtag-Massiv, Altai-Hochgebirge, Chowd-Aimag, Mongolei
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Locality: Tsakhirin Khuduk Y-Zr-Nb-Lagerstätte / Khaldzan-Buragtag-Massiv / Altai-Hochgebirge / Chowd, Aimag / Mongolei
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Aluminocerit-(Ce)
Bildbreite: 4 mm, Fundort: Lagmannsvik, Hamarøy, Nordland, Norwegen
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Bildbreite: 4 mm, Fundort: Lagmannsvik, Hamarøy, Nordland, Norwegen
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Aluminocerit-(Ce)
Größe: 0,5 mm; Fundort: Baveno, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Provinz, Italien
Copyright: Matteo Chinellato; Contribution: Hg
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Aluminocerit-(Ce)

Größe: 0,5 mm; Fundort: Baveno, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Provinz, Italien
Copyright: Matteo Chinellato
Contribution: Hg 2010-07-14
Locality: Baveno / Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Provinz / Piemont (Piemonte), Region / Italien

Collectors Summary

Hardness (Mohs) 5
Cleavages keine
Fracture keiner
Crystal System trigonal, R3c

Chemism

Chemical formula

(Ce,REE,Ca)9(Al,Fe3+)(SiO4)3[SiO3(OH)]4(OH)3

Chemical composition

Aluminium, Calcium, Cerium, Eisen, Silicium, Sauerstoff, Wasserstoff, REE

Unit weight: 1881.31686865 u; Number of atoms in the formula: 51

Info

Empirical formula:

(Ce0.6REE0.3Ca0.1)9(Al0.75Fe0.25)(SiO4)3[SiO3(OH)]4(OH)3

Element

Symbol

Weight%

Atoms

Atoms%

Atom weight (u)

Sum weight (u)
Hydrogen

H

0.27

5

9.80

1.0079470

5.0397350
Oxygen

O

24.66

29

56.86

15.9994300

463.9834700
Aluminium

Al

1.08

0.75

1.47

26.9815382

20.2361537
Silicon

Si

10.45

7

13.73

28.0855300

196.5987100
Calcium

Ca

1.92

0.9

1.76

40.0784000

36.0705600
Iron

Fe

0.74

0.25

0.49

55.8452000

13.9613000
Cerium

Ce

40.22

5.4

10.59

140.1161000

756.6269400
Rare Earth

REE

20.67

2.7

5.29

144.0000000

388.8000000

Strunz 9th edition incl. updates

9.AG.20

9: Silikate (Germanate)
A: Inselsilikate (Nesosilikate)
G: Insel(Neso)silikate mit zusätzlichem Anionen; Kationen in meist [6] und > [6] Koordination
20:

Lapis Classification

VIII/B.19-035

VIII: SILIKATE
B: Inselsilikate mit tetraederfremden Anionen
19: Kationen mit Koordinationszahlen zwischen [8] und [12]

Classification by Hölzel

9.AI.535

9: SILICATES
A: Nesosilicates
I: Nesosilicates with OH
5: With REE's

IMA status

anerkannt im März 2008

Mineral status

anerkanntes Mineral

IMA Classification

IMA Classification

 Cerite supergroup  ⇒ Cerite group  ⇒ Cerite subgroup

Optical Properties

max. Birefringence

0.004
Birefringence chart\! Aluminocerite-(CeCa) title=Birefringence chart Aluminocerite-(CeCa)

Michel-Levy Color Chart viewed according to the maximum birefringence (at 30μm). Mineral color is not taken into account. Click on the image to enlarge or change thickness.

RI value α / ω / n

1.813

RI value γ / ε

1.817

Ri mean

1.814

2V angle

Uniaxial (+)

Crystallography

Crystal System

trigonal

Class (H-M)

3m

Space Group number

161

Space Group

R3c

Cell parameters a (Å)

10.645

Cell parameters b (Å)

-

Cell parameters c (Å)

38.019

Cell parameters a/b or c/a

3.572

Cell parameters c/b

-

Z

6

Volumne (ų)

3730.978

X-Ray Powder Diffraction

3.405(27), 3.250(26), 2.914(100), 2.647(58), 2.198(40), 1.923(34), 1.750(46), 1.732(34)
XRD chart Aluminocerite-(CeCa)

Calculated from d-spacing and intensity at 0.1541838 nm (Cu)

Crystals 3D

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Crystal Structure 3D

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Physical Properties

Hardness (Mohs)

5

VHN (Hardness Vickers)

390 (ungefähre Angabe abgeleitet aus der Mohshärte)

Density (g/cm³)

4.675 (berechnet)

5.024 ( ρ calc. Mineralienatlas )

Cleavages

keine

Fracture

keiner

Tenacity

spröde

(Co-)Type locality

(Co-)Type locality

Italien/Piemont (Piemonte), Region/Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Provinz/Baveno/Oltrefiume/Monte Camoscio/Montecatini-Steinbruch (Seula Mine)

Italien/Piemont (Piemonte), Region/Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Provinz/Baveno/Oltrefiume/Monte Camoscio/Cava Scala dei Ratti

Preface

Author (Name, Year)

Fabrizio Nestola, 2008

References

Neue Mineralien, IMA-WEB-Seite März 2008

IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) – Newsletter 73, 4 Nomenclature/classification proposals approved in May 2023, 4.1 Changes in the cerite group nomenclature, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-397-2023, 2023

IMA group assignments

Other languages

German

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English

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French

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Russian

Алюминоцерит-(CeCa)

CNMNC (IMA)-Number

IMA 2007-060

CNMNC symbol

Symbol

Acrt-Ce

Locations with GPS information

IDs

GUSID (Global unique identifier short form) 0wUDcKRuoUmw39asA3uigA
GUID (Global unique identifier) 700305D3-6EA4-49A1-B0DF-D6AC037BA280
Database ID 4885