Pezzottaite, Cs(Be2Li)Al2Si6O 18, a spectacular new beryl-group mineral from the Sakavalana pegmatite, Fianarantsoa province, Madagascar

Mineralogical Record

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 369-378

  Hawthorne, Frank C ^a   Cooper, Mark A ^a   Simmons, William B ^b   Falster, Alexander U ^b   Laurs, Brendan M ^c   Armbruster, Thomas ^d   Rossman, George R ^e   Peretti, Adolf ^f   Günter, Detlef ^g   Grobéty, Bernard ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

^c GIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f GRS Gemresearch Swisslab AG   (Switzerland)

^g ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^h UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL CHEMISTRY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; NEW MINERAL; PEZZOTTAITE;

FIANARANTSOA; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MADAGASCAR; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 9444264253     PISSN: 00264628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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