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The magnesium aluminium borosilicates: kornerupine and grandidierite

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

Duncan McKie
Duncan McKie*
Affiliation:
Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, Cambridge
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Summary

A new occurrence of kornerupine in the skarn zone at Mautia Hill, Tanganyika, has yielded unit-cell dimensions a 16·100, b 13·767, c 6·735 Å, density 3·297, and composition Na0·01Mn0·01Ti0·02Mg3·69Fe0·37IIIAl6·36Si3·71B0·41O21·75(OH)0·25. The unit-cell clearly contains 88 anions rather than the 86 proposed previously. Grandidierite from Sakatelo, Madagascar, has unit-cell dimensions a 10·978, b 10·335, c 5·760 Å, space group Pna21 or Pnam, density 2·976, and composition Fe0·12IITi0·01Mg0·88Fe0·03IIIAl3·00Si1·00B0·97O9·00. The unit-cell contains 36 anions and the structure appears to involve A106 chains parallel to the c-axis.

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Research Article
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Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 34 , Issue 268 , 1965 , pp. 346 - 357
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1965

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