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Natural and artificial OH defect incorporation into fluoride minerals at elevated temperature—a case study of sellaite, villiaumite and fluorite
The long-known presence of a sharp OH absorption band in the tetragonal fluoride mineral sellaite, MgF 2 , inspired us to conduct a detailed study of...
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Conditions for the Formation of Sellaite in Salt Sediments
AbstractThe conditions for magnesium fluoride (sellaite) precipitation from seawater with a salinity of 35–105‰ were experimentally determined. It...
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Low-pressure ferroelastic phase transition in rutile-type AX2 minerals: cassiterite (SnO2), pyrolusite (MnO2) and sellaite (MgF2)
The structural behaviour of cassiterite (SnO 2 ), pyrolusite (MnO 2 ) and sellaite (MgF 2 ), i.e. AX 2 -minerals, has been investigated at room temperature...
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Extremely Fluorine-Rich Fluoborite from Fumarolic Exhalations of the Tolbachik Volcano, Kamchatka
AbstractFluoborite extremely close to the fluorine endmember of the fluoborite Mg 3 [BO 3 ]F 3 –hydroxylborite Mg 3 [BO 3 ](ОН) 3 series has been found in...
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Posteruptive Activity on the Third Cinder Cone of the Northern Breakthrough during the Great Tolbachik Fissure Eruption, Kamchatka, 1975–1976
AbstractThe early post-eruptive activity is described on the Third Cone, one of the New Tolbachik volcanoes, formed during the eruption at the...
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From freshwater inflows to salt lakes and salt deposits in the Qaidam Basin, W China
The Qaidam basin in W China is an immense hyperarid intramontane basin with flat vast playas and salt lakes on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. The central...
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Marble-Hosted Gem Spinel Deposits from Luc Yen District, North Vietnam: Mineral Systems and Some Aspects of Genesis
AbstractA comparative study of the mineral-species distribution by various systems in evaporites from the Inder deposit (Kazakhstan) and in marbles...
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Diamonds in Kimberlites and Their Xenoliths: A Reappraisal
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Experimental Study of the Crystallization Conditions of Ongonites of the Ary-Bulak Massif (Eastern Transbaikalia)
Phase equilibria were studied experimentally in three rock samples of the Ary-Bulak massif at T = 800–700°C, P = 1 kbar, water content 10 wt %, and...
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Concentration mechanism of fluorine, arsenic, and uranium in groundwater of the Hailar Basin, China
Located in a semiarid region of the Hulun Buir League in China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the Hailar Basin is a region with less...
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The Composition of a Silicate Melt of Fluorite-Containing Ongonites at 700–800°C, 100 MPa, and Different Oxygen Fugacities
AbstractExperiments on the melting of samples of fluorite-containing ongonites from the Ary-Bulak massif at 700–800°C at a pressure of 100 MPa and...
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Langbeinite-Group Minerals and Vanthoffite from Fumarole Exhalations of the Tolbachik Volcano (Kamchatka)
AbstractIn this paper, we provide characteristics of sulfates of exhalation origin—langbeinite K 2 Mg 2 (SO 4 ) 3 , two modifications of calciolangbeinite K 2 Ca...
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Rocks of the Ary-Bulak Ongonite Massif: Relationship between Geochemical Features, Mineral-Phase Assemblages, and Formation Processes
The paper reports the study of geochemistry, mineral-phase assemblages of rocks of the Ary-Bulak ongonite massif, compositions of major, minor and...
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Fluorellestadite from burned coal dumps: crystal structure refinement, vibrational spectroscopy data and thermal behavior
Nine different samples of fluorellestadite from Chelyabinsk, Kizel and Kuznetsk coal basins were studied by single-crystal X-ray diffraction...
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The Discovery of the Mineral Knasibfite K3Na4(SiF6)3(BF4) on Tolbachik Volcano, Kamchatka and Details of its Crystal Structure
AbstractThis paper presents the results of mineralogical and crystallographic studies in the first Russian finding of a mineral belonging to the...
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Hydrogeochemistry and multivariate statistical analysis of groundwater quality of hard rock aquifers from Deccan trap basalt in Western India
In the present investigation, hydrogeochemistry and multivariate statistical analysis of groundwater quality were assessed from hard rock aquifers of...
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Fluoride Hazard and Risk Enumeration of Hard Rock Unconfined Aquifers in the Extended Part of Chhota Nagpur Gneissic Complex
Fluoride (F − ) is the most electronegative and reactive micro nutrient and has no colour, taste and smell. WHO (1984) has set a range of 0.6–1.2 mg/l...
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Stratiform Fluorite Mineralization along the Periphery of the Siberian Platform and in the East of Russia
AbstractThis paper describes the stratiform fluorite and fluorite–base-metal mineralization within the Baikal area, Aldan Shield, Sette-Daban Ridge,...
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Fluoride dynamics in hydrogeological diversity and Fluoride Contamination Index map**: a correlation study of North Singbhum Craton, India
Fluoride is a colourless micro-nutrient which is highly required for the strong teeth and bones. The above and below the prescribed range...
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Salt efflorescence as indicator for sources of damaging salts on historic buildings and monuments: a statistical approach
The results of XRD analyses of salt types found in more than 300 samples of efflorescence on buildings and monuments in Saxony (Germany) have been...