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    Churchite-(Y)
    Cuh-Y
    Y(PO4)·2H2O
    YPO4·2H2O
    Y P O H
    Mineral described but not named:
    Church A H (1865) Preliminary note on a new British mineral containing cerium. The Chemical News 12, 121-121  [view file]
    Mineral named:
    Williams C G (1865) On the presence of didymium in churchite. The Chemical News 12, 183-183  [view file]
    Name changed from churchite:
    Nickel E H, Mandarino J A (1987) Procedures involving the IMA Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names and guidelines on mineral nomenclature. American Mineralogist 72, 1031-1042  [view file]
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    Church A H (1865) Preliminary note on a new British mineral containing cerium. The Chemical News 12, 121-121  [view file]
    Fleischer M (1954) New mineral names. American Mineralogist 39, 848-852  [view file]
    Göb S, Wenzel T, Bau M, Jacob D E, Loges A, Markl G (2011) The redistribution of rare-earth elements in secondary minerals of hydrothermal veins, Schwarzwald, southwestern Germany. The Canadian Mineralogist 49, 1305-1333  [view file]
    International Mineralogical Association (1982) International Mineralogical Association: Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names. Mineralogical Magazine 46, 513-514  [view file]
    Kohlmann M, Sowa H, Reithmayer K, Schulz H, Kruger R R, Abriel W (1994) Structure of a Y1-x(Gd,Dy,Er)xPO4·2H2O microcrystal using synchrotron radiation. Acta Crystallographica C50, 1651-1652
    Milton D J, Bastron H (1971) Churchite and florencite (Nd) from Sausalito, California. The Mineralogical Record 2, 166-168  [view file]
    Nickel E H, Mandarino J A (1987) Procedures involving the IMA Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names and guidelines on mineral nomenclature. American Mineralogist 72, 1031-1042  [view file]
    Plášil J, Sejkora J, Čejka J, Škoda R, Goliáš V (2009) Supergene mineralization of the Medvedín uranium deposit, Krkonoše Mountains, Czech Republic. Journal of Geosciences 54, 15-56 ; https://doi.org/10.3190/jgeosci.029  [view file]
    Podporina E K, Burkov V V, Danilova K N (1983) Nd-churchites from the crust of weathering of Kazakjstan metamorphic rocks. Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 268, 195-198  [view file]
    Unitt R P, Moreton S, Kocher S, Lawson R (2025) Corkite from Glandore mine, County Cork, and the discovery of five mineral species new to Ireland: Chalcosiderite, churchite-Y, delafossite, kidwellite, and kintoreite. Irish Journal of Earth Sciences 43, 1-23  [view file]
    Williams C G (1865) On the presence of didymium in churchite. The Chemical News 12, 183-183  [view file]