Zirsinalite-Lovozerite Subgroup

Kapustinite

Palitra pegmatite, Karnasurt mine, Karnasurt Mountain, Lovozersky District, Murmansk Oblast, Russia

Kazakovite

Palitra pegmatite, Karnasurt mine, Karnasurt Mountain, Lovozersky District, Murmansk Oblast, Russia

Litvinskite, etc.

Shkatulka pegmatite, Umbozero mine, Alluaiv Mountain, Lovozersky District, Murmansk Oblast, Russia

Kapustinite

Palitra pegmatite, Karnasurt mine, Karnasurt Mountain, Lovozersky District, Murmansk Oblast, Russia

Kazakovite

Palitra pegmatite, Karnasurt mine, Karnasurt Mountain, Lovozersky District, Murmansk Oblast, Russia

Litvinskite, etc.

Shkatulka pegmatite, Umbozero mine, Alluaiv Mountain, Lovozersky District, Murmansk Oblast, Russia

Kapustinite

Palitra pegmatite, Karnasurt mine, Karnasurt Mountain, Lovozersky District, Murmansk Oblast, Russia

Kazakovite

Palitra pegmatite, Karnasurt mine, Karnasurt Mountain, Lovozersky District, Murmansk Oblast, Russia

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ID	Species	Reference	Link	Year	Locality	Pressure (GPa)	Temp (K)
0010016	Combeite	Ohsato H, Maki I, Takeuchi Y (1985) Structure of Na2CaSi2O6 Acta Crystallographica C41 1575-1577		1985	synthetic high-temperature form	0	293
0010031	Combeite	Ohsato H, Takeuchi Y, Maki I (1986) Structure of Na4Ca4[Si6O18] Acta Crystallographica C42 934-937		1986	synthetic low-temperature form	0	293
0010050	Combeite	Fischer R X, Tillmanns E (1987) Revised data for combeite, Na2Ca2Si3O9 Acta Crystallographica C43 1852-1854		1987	synthetic low-temperature form	0	293
0010051	Combeite	Fischer R X, Tillmanns E (1987) Revised data for combeite, Na2Ca2Si3O9 Acta Crystallographica C43 1852-1854		1987	synthetic high-temperature form	0	293
0019534	Combeite	Fischer R X, Tillmanns E (1983) Die Kristallstrukturen von naturlichem Na2Ca2Si3O9 vom Mt.Shaheru (Zaire) und aus dem Mayener Feld (Eifel) Neues Jahrbuch fur Mineralogie, Monatshefte 1983 49-59		1983	Mayener Feld, Eifel, Germany	0	293
0019535	Combeite	Fischer R X, Tillmanns E (1983) Die Kristallstrukturen von naturlichem Na2Ca2Si3O9 vom Mt.Shaheru (Zaire) und aus dem Mayener Feld (Eifel) Neues Jahrbuch fur Mineralogie, Monatshefte 1983 49-59		1983	Mt. Shaheru, Zaire	0	293
0012462	Kazakovite	Voronkov A A, Pudovkina Z V, Blinov V A, Ilyukhin V V, Pyatenko Y A (1979) Crystal structure of kazakovite Na6Mn{Ti[Si6O18]} Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 245 106-109		1979		0	293
0012374	Lovozerite	Yamnova N A, Egorov-Tismenko Y K, Pekov I V (2001) Refined crystal structure of lovozerite Na2CaZr[Si6O12(OH,O)6]*H2O Crystallography Reports 46 937-941		2001	Kola Peninsula, Russia	0	293
0015541	Lovozerite	Ilyukhin V V, Belov N V (1960) Derivation of the structure of lovozerite from sections of the three-dimensional Patterson function Soviet Physics Crystallography 5 186-198		1960		0	293
0012385	Tisinalite	Yamnova N A, Egorov-Tismenko Y K, Pekov I V, Shchegol'kova L V (2003) Crystal structure of tisinalite Na2(Mn,Ca)1-x(Ti,Zr,Nb,Fe3+)[Si6O8(O,OH)10] Crystallography Reports 48 551-556		2003	Khibiny massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia	0	293
0012464	Zirsinalite	Pudovkina Z V, Chernitsova N M, Voronkov A A, Pyatenko Yu A (1980) Crystal structure of zirsinalite Na6Ca{Zr(Si6O18)} Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 250 865-867		1980	Koashva Mountain, Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia	0	293
0012370	Litvinskite	Yamnova N A, Egorov-Tismenko Y K, Pekov I V, Ekimenkova I A (2001) Crystal structure of litvinskite: A new natural member of the lovozerite group Crystallography Reports 46 190-193		2001	Alluaiv mountain, Lovozero massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia	0	293
0012498	Kapustinite	Yamnova N A, Egorov-Tismenko Y K, Pekov I V, Shchegol'kova L V (2004) Crystal structure of kapustinite Na5.5Mn0.25Zr[Si6O16(OH)2] - a new mineral of the lovozerite group Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 396 680-685		2004		0	293
0005045	Townendite	Grey I E, Macrae C M, Mumme W G, Pring A (2010) Townendite, Na8ZrSi6O18, a new uranium-bearing lovozerite group mineral from the Ilimaussaq alkaline complex, Southern Greenland American Mineralogist 95 646-650		2010	the Ilimaussaq alkaline complex, Southern Greenland	0	293

CIF Raw Data - click here to closedata_global _chemical_name_mineral 'Combeite' loop_ _publ_author_name 'Ohsato H' 'Maki I' 'Takeuchi Y' _journal_name_full 'Acta Crystallographica, Section C' _journal_volume 41 _journal_year 1985 _journal_page_first 1575 _journal_page_last 1577 _publ_section_title ; Structure of Na2CaSi2O6 ; _database_code_amcsd 0010016 _chemical_compound_source 'synthetic high-temperature form' _chemical_formula_sum 'Na2.914 Ca1.543 Si3 O9' _cell_length_a 10.500 _cell_length_b 10.500 _cell_length_c 13.184 _cell_angle_alpha 90 _cell_angle_beta 90 _cell_angle_gamma 120 _cell_volume 1258.799 _exptl_crystal_density_diffrn 2.827 _symmetry_space_group_name_H-M 'R -3 m' loop_ _space_group_symop_operation_xyz 'x,y,z' '2/3+x,1/3+y,1/3+z' '1/3+x,2/3+y,2/3+z' 'x,x-y,z' '2/3+x,1/3+x-y,1/3+z' '1/3+x,2/3+x-y,2/3+z' 'y,x,-z' '2/3+y,1/3+x,1/3-z' '1/3+y,2/3+x,2/3-z' '-x+y,y,z' '2/3-x+y,1/3+y,1/3+z' '1/3-x+y,2/3+y,2/3+z' '-x,-x+y,-z' '2/3-x,1/3-x+y,1/3-z' '1/3-x,2/3-x+y,2/3-z' '-y,-x,z' '2/3-y,1/3-x,1/3+z' '1/3-y,2/3-x,2/3+z' 'x-y,-y,-z' '2/3+x-y,1/3-y,1/3-z' '1/3+x-y,2/3-y,2/3-z' 'y,-x+y,-z' '2/3+y,1/3-x+y,1/3-z' '1/3+y,2/3-x+y,2/3-z' '-x+y,-x,z' '2/3-x+y,1/3-x,1/3+z' '1/3-x+y,2/3-x,2/3+z' '-x,-y,-z' '2/3-x,1/3-y,1/3-z' '1/3-x,2/3-y,2/3-z' '-y,x-y,z' '2/3-y,1/3+x-y,1/3+z' '1/3-y,2/3+x-y,2/3+z' 'x-y,x,-z' '2/3+x-y,1/3+x,1/3-z' '1/3+x-y,2/3+x,2/3-z' loop_ _atom_site_label _atom_site_fract_x _atom_site_fract_y _atom_site_fract_z _atom_site_occupancy _atom_site_U_iso_or_equiv Na1 0.00000 0.00000 0.24850 0.70500 0.01317 Ca1 0.00000 0.00000 0.24850 0.29500 0.01317 Na2 0.50000 0.00000 0.00000 0.97200 0.03407 Na3 0.50000 0.00000 0.50000 0.50100 0.01697 Ca3 0.50000 0.00000 0.50000 0.49900 0.01697 Ca4 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 1.00000 0.01026 Si 0.15020 -0.15020 0.56360 1.00000 0.00735 O1 0.25330 0.01310 0.51470 0.50000 0.03559 O2 0.11610 -0.11610 0.67340 1.00000 0.03394 O3 0.23730 -0.23730 0.55100 1.00000 0.03318

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