Allanite

Olden Township, Frontenac Co., Ontario, Canada
© 2001 John H. Betts

Synonym of:	Allanite-(Ce), Allanite-(La), Allanite-(Y)
This page provides mineralogical data about Allanite.

Classification of Allanite

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Crystallography of Allanite

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Allanite no.30 - Goldschmidt (1913-1926)

Allanite no.31 - Goldschmidt (1913-1926)

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Other Names for Allanite

Synonyms:

Bagrationite	Bagrationite (of Kokscharov)	Bucklandite (of Lévy)	Lombaardite	Orthite
Ortite	Pyrothite	Tautalite	Tautolite	Treanorite
Uralorthite

German names:

Allanit	Bagrationit	Orthit	Ortit	Pyrothit
Tautalit	Tautolit	Treanorit	Uralorthit

Russian names:

Ортит

Spanish names:

Allanita	Bagrationita	Orthita	Ortita	Pyrothita
Tautalita	Tautolita	Treanorita	Uralorthita

Other Information

Health Warning:

No information on health risks for this material has been entered into the database. You should always treat mineral specimens with care.

References for Allanite

Reference List:

Thomson, T. (1810) Experiments on allanite, a new mineral from Greenland. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: 8: 371-386.

Marble, J.P. (1940): Allanite from Barringer Hill, Llano County, Texas. American Mineralogist, 25, 168-173.

Ovchinnikov, L.N. and Tzimbalenko, M.N. (1948) Manganorthite from Vishnevy Mts., Doklady of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Earth Science Sections: 63: 191-194 (in Russian).

Hutton, C.O. (1951): Allanite from Yosemite National Park, Tuolumne Co., California. American Mineralogist, 36, 233-248.

Hutton, C.O. (1951): Allanite from Wilmot Pass, Fiordland, New Zealand. American Journal of Science, 249, 208-214.

Hasegawa, S. (1957): Chemical studies of allanites and their associated minerals from the pegmatites in the northern part of the Abukuma massif. Science Reports, Tohoku University, Serioes 3, Mineralogy, Petrology, and Economic Geology, 5, 345-371.

Hasegawa, S. (1958): Chemical studies of allanites from the new localities in Fukushima and Kagawa prefectures. Science Reports, Tohoku University, Ser. 3, Mineralogy, Petrology, and Economic Geology, 6, 39-56.

Hasegawa, S. (1960) Chemical composition of allanite. Sci. Report of Tohoku University, Thuird series: 6: 331-387.

Hugo, P.J. (1961): The allanite deposits on Vreda Gordonia district, Cape Province. South Africa Geological Survey, "Geological Series" of the Department of Mines, 37, 1-65.

Frondel, J.W. (1964), Variation in some rare earths in allanite: American Mineralogist: 49: 1159-1177.

Dollase, W.A. (1971), Refinement of the crystal structures of epidote, allanite and hancockite: American Mineralogist: 56: 447-464.

Pavelescu, L. and Pavelescu, M. (1972) Study of some alanites and monazites from the South Carpathians (Romania): Tschermaks Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen: 17: 208-214.

Chesner, C.A. and Ettlinger, A.D. (1989) Composition of volcanic allanite from the Toba Tuffs, Sumatra, Indonesia. American Mineralogist: 74: 750-758.

Sorensen, S.S. (1991) Petrogenic significance of zoned allanite in garnet amphibolites from a paleo-subduction zone: Catalina Schist, southern California. American Mineralogist: 76: 589-601.

Peterson, R.C. and MacFarlane, D.B. (1993) The rare-earth-element chemistry of allanite from the Grenville Province. Canadian Mineralogist: 31: 159-166.

Bonazzi, P. and Menchetti, S. (1994) Structural variations induced by heat treatment in allanite and REE-bearing piemontite. American Mineralogist: 79: 1176-1184.

Catlos, E.J., Sorensen, S.S., and Harrison, T.M. (2000) Th-Pb ion-microprobe dating of allanite. American Mineralogist: 85: 633-648.

Ercit, T.S. (2002): The mess that is “allanite”. Canadian Mineralogist, 40, 1411-1419.

Poitrasson, F. (2002) In situ investigations of allanite hydrothermal alteration: examples from calc-alkaline and anorogenic granites of Corsica (southeast France). Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology: 142: 485-500.

Smith, M.P., Henderson, P., and Jeffries, T. (2002) The formation and alteration of allanite in skarn from the Beinn an Dubhaich granite aureole, Skye. European Journal of Mineralogy: 14: 471-486.

Gieré, R. and Sorensen, S.S. (2004) Allanite and other REE-rich epidote-group minerals. In: Epidotes (A. Liebscher & G. Franz, editors). Rev. Mineral. Geochem.: 56: 431-493.

Hoshino, M., Kimata, M., Nishida, N., Kyono, A., Shimizu, M., Takizawa, S. (2005) The chemistry of allanite from the Daibosatsu Pass, Yamanashi, Japan. Mineralogical Magazine: 69: 403-423.

Hoshino, Mihoko, Mitsuyoshi Kimata, Masahiro Shimizu, Norimasa Nishida and Takashi Fujiwara (2006), Allanite-(Ce) in granitic rocks from Japan: genetic implications of patterns of REE and Mn enrichment: Canadian Mineralogist: 44(1): 45-62.