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<journal-id journal-id-type="archive">gsminmag</journal-id>
<journal-title>Mineralogical Magazine</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="full">Mineralogical Magazine</abbrev-journal-title>
<issn pub-type="ppub">0026-461X</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name>Mineralogical Society</publisher-name>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1180/minmag.1990.054.377.11</article-id>
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<subject>Mineralogy and Petrology</subject>
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<article-title>A Calcian Ralstonite-like Mineral from the Cleveland Mine, Tasmania, Australia</article-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Birch</surname>
<given-names>W. D.</given-names>
</name>
<aff>Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, Museum of Victoria, 285 Russell Street, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000</aff></contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Pring</surname>
<given-names>A.</given-names>
</name>
<aff>Department of Mineralogy, South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia, 5000</aff></contrib></contrib-group>
<pub-date pub-type="ppub">
<month>12</month>
<year>1990</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>54</volume>
<issue>377</issue>
<fpage>599</fpage>
<lpage>602</lpage>
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<date date-type="received">
<day>2</day>
<month>10</month>
<year>1989</year>
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<date date-type="rev-recd">
<day>10</day>
<month>2</month>
<year>1990</year>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 1990, The Mineralogical Society</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>1990</copyright-year>
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<title>Abstract</title>
<p>A calcium-rich ralstonite, forming colourless octahedral crystals up to 2 mm across, occurs in a F-rich assemblage at the Cleveland Mine, northwestern Tasmania. Other minerals present include well-crystallized morinite, gearksutite, vivianite, siderite, K-rich feldspar (adularia), fluorite and quartz. The F-rich assemblage probably formed during greisenization when Na and F-rich magmatic brines reacted with enclosing carbonate host rocks to produce hydrothermal Na-Ca-Mg-bearing solutions. Chemical analysis of the ralstonite-like mineral gave a formula (Na<sub>1.47</sub>Ca<sub>0.52</sub>)(Mg<sub>1.49</sub>Al<sub>0.55</sub>P<sub>0.04</sub>)F<sub>6</sub> [(OH)<sub>0.43</sub>O<sub>0.36</sub>F<sub>0.21</sub>)].</p> 
<p>This differs from the &#x2018;pyrochlore&#x2019; formula, due to the substitution of Ca + (OH,O,F) for H<sub>2</sub>O, in addition to the coupled substitution of Na + Mg for Al in &#x2018;normal&#x2019; ralstonites. The Cleveland Mine ralstonite has the highest recorded Ca, Na and Mg contents. While the mineral is likely to be a new species on chemical grounds, single crystal X-ray photographs indicate the structure is disordered, possibly composed of small compositional domains.</p></abstract>
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<title>Keywords</title>
<kwd>ralstonite</kwd>
<kwd>Cleveland Mine</kwd>
<kwd>Tasmania</kwd>
<kwd>Australia</kwd>
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