ID	Species	Reference	Year	Locality	Temp (K)
0020245	Tuite	Thompson R M, Xie X, Zhai S, Downs R T, Yang H (2013) A comparison of the Ca3(PO4)2 and CaSiO3 systems, with a new structure refinement of tuite synthesized at 15 GPa and 1300 deg C American Mineralogist 98 1585-1592	2013	synthetic	293
0007447	Tuite	Sugiyama K, Tokonami M (1987) Structure and crystal chemistry of a dense polymorph of tricalcium phosphate Ca3(PO4)2: a host to accommodate large lithophile elements in the Earth's mantle Physics and Chemistry of Minerals 15 125-130	1987		293
0010708	Gurimite	Susse P, Buerger M J (1970) The structure of Ba3(VO4)2 Zeitschrift fur Kristallographie 131 161-174	1970		293
0019959	Gurimite	Mugavero S J, Bharathy M, McAlum J, Loye H C (2008) Crystal growth of alkaline earth vanadates from hydroxide fluxes Solid State Sciences 10 370-376	2008	synthetic	293

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Relationship of Tuite Group to other SpeciesHide

Member of:

Palmierite Supergroup

Other Members of this group:

Palmierite Group

A₂B(TO₄)₂ or maybe A₂B(SO₄)₂

Group Members:

Gurimite	Ba₃(VO₄)₂	Trig. 3m : R3m
Mazorite	Ba₃(PO₄)₂	Trig. 3m (3 2/m) : R3m
Tuite	Ca₃(PO₄)₂	Trig. 3m (3 2/m) : R3m

Minerals structurally related to group:

Palmierite Group

A₂B(TO₄)₂ or maybe A₂B(SO₄)₂

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References for Tuite GroupHide

Reference List:

Juroszek, R., Galuskina, I.O., Krüger, B., Krüger, H. (2023): Proposal 22-L

Localities for Tuite GroupHide

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Antarctica
Eastern Antarctica American Highland Grove Mountains ⓘ Grove Mountains 020090 meteorite	[Tuite] YT Lin, Lu Feng, Sen Hu (2011) High Pressure Mineral Assemblages in the Lherzolitic Shergottite Grove Mountains (GRV) 020090. Japan Geooscience Union Meeting Makuhari, Chiba Japan.
Queen Maud Land Queen Fabiola Mts ⓘ Yamato 790729 meteorite	[Tuite] Kato, Y., Sekine, T., Kayama, M., Miyahara, M., & Yamaguchi, A. (2017). High‐pressure polymorphs in Yamato‐790729 L6 chondrite and their significance for collisional conditions. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 52(12), 2570-2585.

Australia
Queensland Barcoo Shire Windorah Tenham Station ⓘ Tenham meteorite	[Tuite] Excalibur Minerals CATALOG 20601 - Volume XXXIII, No. 1

China
Hubei Suizhou Zengdu District (Cengdou District) Xihe ⓘ Suizhou meteorite (Suizhou L6 chondrite)	[Tuite] Xie Xiande, Minetti, M. E., Chen Ming, Mao Ho-kwang, Wang Deqiang, Shu Jinfu, and Eei Yingwei (2003): European Journal of Mineralogy 15, 1001-1005. Chen, M., Shu, J., & Mao, H. K. (2008). Xieite, a new mineral of high-pressure FeCr2O4 polymorph. Chinese Science Bulletin, 53(21), 3341-3345. Chen, M., & Xie, X. (2015). Shock-produced akimotoite in the Suizhou L6 chondrite. Science China Earth Sciences, 58(6), 876-880. Tomioka, N., Bindi, L., Okuchi, T., Miyahara, M., Iitaka, T., Li, Z., ... & Kodama, Y. (2021). Poirierite, a dense metastable polymorph of magnesium iron silicate in shocked meteorites. Communications Earth & Environment, 2(1), 1-8.
Jiangsu Taizhou Gaogang District Sixiangkou ⓘ Sixiangkou meteorite	[Tuite] Li, S., & Hsu, W. (2018). The nature of the L chondrite parent body's disruption as deduced from high‐pressure phases in the Sixiangkou L6 chondrite. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 53(10), 2107-2122.

Germany
Rhineland-Palatinate Mayen-Koblenz Vordereifel Ettringen ⓘ Caspar quarry	[Mazorite] Krzątała, Arkadiusz, Skrzyńska, Katarzyna, Cametti, Georgia, Galuskina, Irina, Vapnik, Yevgeny, Galuskin, Evgeny (2023) Fluoralforsite, Ba₅(PO₄)₃F – a new apatite group mineral from the Hatrurim Basin, Negev Desert, Israel. Mineralogical Magazine, 1-32 doi:10.1180/mgm.2023.58

Israel
Southern District (HaDarom District) Tamar Regional Council ⓘ Aradite type locality	[Gurimite] Galuskin, E. V., Gfeller, F., Galuskina, I. O., Pakhomova, A., Armbruster, T., Vapnik, Y., Włodyka, R., Dzierżanowski, P., Murashko, M. (2015) New minerals with a modular structure derived from hatrurite from the pyrometamorphic Hatrurim Complex. Part II. Zadovite, BaCa₆[(SiO₄)(PO₄)](PO₄)₂F and aradite, BaCa₆[(SiO₄)(VO₄)](VO₄)₂F, from paralavas of the Hatrurim Basin, Negev Desert, Israel. Mineralogical Magazine, 79 (5) 1073-1087 doi:10.1180/minmag.2015.079.5.04
Hatrurim Basin ⓘ Gurim anticline	[Gurimite] Williams, P. A., Hatert, F., Pasero, M., Mills, S. J. (2013) New minerals and nomenclature modifications approved in 2013. CNMNC Newsletter No 16. Mineralogical Magazine, 77 (6) 2695-2709 doi:10.1180/minmag.2013.077.6.01 Galuskina, Irina O., Galuskin, Evgeny V., Vapnik, Yevgeny, Prusik, Krystian, Stasiak, Marta, Dzierżanowski, Piotr, Murashko, Mikhail (2017) Gurimite, Ba₃(VO₄)₂ and hexacelsian, BaAl₂Si₂O₈ – two new minerals from schorlomite-rich paralava of the Hatrurim Complex, Negev Desert, Israel. Mineralogical Magazine, 81 (4) 1009-1019 doi:10.1180/minmag.2016.080.147 Arkadiusz Krzątała, Evgeny V. Galuskin, Irina O. Galuskina, Yevgeny Vapnik (2018) “Uranian cuspidine” – a potentially new mineral from paralava of Eastern Gurim, Hatrurim Complex, Israel. in abstracts of the 22nd IMA Meeting Melbourne p 358 Krzątała, Arkadiusz, Krüger, Biljana, Galuskina, Irina, Vapnik, Yevgeny, Galuskin, Evgeny (2020) Walstromite, BaCa₂(Si₃O₉), from Rankinite Paralava within Gehlenite Hornfels of the Hatrurim Basin, Negev Desert, Israel. Minerals, 10 (5) 407 doi:10.3390/min10050407
ⓘ Mazorite type locality	[Gurimite] Krzątała, Arkadiusz, Skrzyńska, Katarzyna, Cametti, Georgia, Galuskina, Irina, Vapnik, Yevgeny, Galuskin, Evgeny (2023) Fluoralforsite, Ba₅(PO₄)₃F – a new apatite group mineral from the Hatrurim Basin, Negev Desert, Israel. Mineralogical Magazine, 1-32 doi:10.1180/mgm.2023.58
ⓘ Nahal Morag Canyon	[Gurimite] Pekov, Igor V., Koshlyakova, Natalia N., Zubkova, Natalia V., Krzątała, Arkadiusz, Belakovskiy, Dmitry I., Galuskina, Irina O., Galuskin, Evgeny V., Britvin, Sergey N., Sidorov, Evgeny G., Vapnik, Yevgeny, Pushcharovsky, Dmitry Yu (2022) Pliniusite, Ca₅(VO₄)₃F, a new apatite-group mineral and the novel natural ternary solid-solution system pliniusite–svabite–fluorapatite. American Mineralogist, 107 (8) 1626-1634 doi:10.2138/am-2022-8100

Middle East
ⓘ Hatrurim Formation	[Gurimite] Vapnik, Y., Galuskina, I., Murashko, M., Britvin, S., & Galuskin, E. (2014). The Hatrurim Complex-the New Unique Locality on World Mineral Map: the Review of Mineral Discoveries. In Israel Geological Society 2014, Annual Meeting, En Boqeq (pp. 143-144).

Morocco
Souss-Massa Region Tata Province Tata Cercle ⓘ Tissint Martian meteorite	[Tuite] Baziotis, I. P., Liu, Y., DeCarli, P. S., Melosh, H. J., McSween, H. Y., Bodnar, R. J., & Taylor, L. A. (2013). The Tissint Martian meteorite as evidence for the largest impact excavation. Nature Communications, 4, 1404.

Nigeria
Katsina Faskari ⓘ Zagami Martian meteorite	[Tuite] Gu, L., Hu, S., Anand, M., Tang, Xu, Ji, J., Zhang, B., Wang, N., Lin, Y. (2022): Occurrence of tuite and ahrensite in Zagami and their significance for shock-histories recorded in martian meteorites. American Mineralogist: 107: 1018-1029. Ma, Chi, Tschauner, Oliver, Beckett, John R., Greenberg, Eran, Prakapenka, Vitali B. (2024) Zagamiite, CaAl2Si3.5O11, the Hexagonal High-Pressure CAS Phase with Dominant Si, as a Mineral from Mars. Minerals, 14 (1) doi:10.3390/min14010018

North Africa
Sahara Desert ⓘ Sahara 98222 meteorite	[Tuite] Ozawa, S., Ohtani, E., Suzuki, A., Miyahara, M., Terada, K., & Kimura, M. (2007, December). Shock metamorphism of L6 chondrites Sahara 98222 and Yamato 74445: the PT conditions and the shock age. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts.

Northwest Africa Meteorites
ⓘ Northwest Africa 4468 Martian meteorite (NWA 4468)	[Tuite] Suporn Boonsuea & John Spraya (2012) Shock-Induced Phase Transformations in Melt Pockets within Martian Meteorite NWA 4468. Spectroscopy Letters: An International Journal for Rapid Communication 45:127-134.

Oman
Dhofar Governorate ⓘ Dhofar 717 meteorite (Dho 717)	[Tuite] Litasov, K. D., Badyukov, D. D., & Pokhilenko, N. P. (2019, March). Formation parameters of high-pressure minerals in the Dhofar 717 AND 864 chondrite meteorites. In Doklady Earth Sciences (Vol. 485, No. 1, pp. 327-330). Pleiades Publishing.
ⓘ Dhofar 864 meteorite (Dho 864)	[Tuite] Litasov, K. D., Badyukov, D. D., & Pokhilenko, N. P. (2019, March). Formation parameters of high-pressure minerals in the Dhofar 717 AND 864 chondrite meteorites. In Doklady Earth Sciences (Vol. 485, No. 1, pp. 327-330). Pleiades Publishing.

Russia
Sakha Oymyakonsky District ⓘ Elga meteorite	[Tuite] Litasov, K. D., & Podgornykh, N. M. (2017). Raman spectroscopy of various phosphate minerals and occurrence of tuite in the Elga IIE iron meteorite. Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 48(11), 1518-1527. Sharygin, V.V. (2020) Mineralogy of Silicate-Natrophosphate Immiscible Inclusion in Elga IIE Iron Meteorite. Minerals 10, 437.

Slovakia
Košice Region Košice Košice I ⓘ Košice meteorite	[Tuite] Ozdín, D., Uher, P., Kaňuchová, Z., Svoreň, J., Baratta, G.A., Porubčan, V. & Tóth, J. (2010) Mineralogical Research of the Košice Chondrite (Slovakia). Mineralogica-Petrographica, 94, 99. Abstract Series, Szeged, Vol. 7

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