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Name: Lobanovite
Lbv
IMA Chemistry: K2Na(Fe2+4Mg2Na)Ti2(Si4O12)2O2(OH)4
Chemistry Elements: The mineral Lobanovite contains elements:
Potassium (K)
Sodium (Na)
Iron (Fe)
Magnesium (Mg)
Titanium (Ti)
Silicon (Si)
Oxygen (O)
Hydrogen (H)
Country of Type Locality: Russia
Year First Published: 1963
IMA Status: Approved
Status Notes: Peng C C, Ma C S (1963) The discovery of a new type of Si-O chain radical - X-ray analysis of astrophyllite, Scientia Sinica 12, 272-276 Chemical formula revised: Piilonen P C, LaLonde A E, McDonald A M, Gault R A, Larsen A O (2003) Insights into astrophyllite–group minerals. I. Nomenclature, composition and development of a standardized general formula, The Canadian Mineralogist 41, 1-26 Name changed from magnesium astrophyllite to magnesioastrophyllite: Burke E A J (2008) Tidying up mineral names: an IMA-CNMNC scheme for suffixes, hyphens and diacritical marks, The Mineralogical Record 39, 131-135 Chemical composition revised according to: Cámara F, Sokolova E, Abdu Y, Hawthorne F C (2010) The crystal structures of niobophyllite, kupletskite-(Cs) and Sn-rich astrophyllite: Revisions to the crystal chemistry of the astrophyllite-group minerals, The Canadian Mineralogist 48, 1-16 Name changed from magnesioastrophyllite to lobanovite: Sokolova E, Cámara F, Hawthorne F C, Semenov E I, Ciriotti M E (2017) Lobanovite, K_2_Na(Fe^2+^_4_Mg_2_Na)Ti_2_(Si_4_O_12_)_2_O_2_(OH)_4_, a new mineral of the astrophyllite supergroup and its relation to magnesioastrophyllite. Mineralogical Magazine 81, 175-181
Structural Group Name: Astrophyllite-Devitoite
Fleischer's Group Name: astrophyllite
Crystal Systems: monoclinic
Oldest Known Age: 418 Million Years Ago
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