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    Baddeleyite is a mineral composed of zirconium dioxide that commonly forms tabular or prismatic crystals. It is colorless to various shades of brown, with a greasy to vitreous luster. Baddeleyite is found as an accessory mineral in carbonatites and kimberlites, as well as in syenites, diabases, and gabbros. It is distributed across locations in Sri Lanka, Italy, Russia, Brazil, Montana, Congo, and South Africa. Baddeleyite was first described from Sri Lankan specimens and is named after Joseph Baddeley who drew attention to the early samples.

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    Baddeleyite is a mineral composed of zirconium dioxide that commonly forms tabular or prismatic crystals. It is colorless to various shades of brown, with a greasy to vitreous luster. Baddeleyite is found as an accessory mineral in carbonatites and kimberlites, as well as in syenites, diabases, and gabbros. It is distributed across locations in Sri Lanka, Italy, Russia, Brazil, Montana, Congo, and South Africa. Baddeleyite was first described from Sri Lankan specimens and is named after Joseph Baddeley who drew attention to the early samples.

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    Baddeleyite ZrO2

    c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1

    Crystal Data: Monoclinic. Point Group: 2/m. Crystals commonly tabular on {100} and
    somewhat elongated on [010], or short to long prismatic along [001], to 6 cm; rarely equant;
    prism faces striated k [001]; radially fibrous with concentric banding in botryoidal masses.
    Twinning: Ubiquitous; on {100} and {110}, both may be polysynthetic; rare on {201}.
    Physical Properties: Cleavage: {001} nearly perfect, {010} and {110} less perfect.
    Fracture: Subconchoidal to uneven. Tenacity: Brittle. Hardness = 6.5 D(meas.) = 5.40–6.02
    D(calc.) = [5.83] Blue-green cathodoluminescence.
    Optical Properties: Transparent; in dark-colored specimens, only in thin fragments.
    Color: Colorless to yellow, green, greenish or reddish brown, brown, iron-black; colorless to brown
    in transmitted light. Streak: White to brownish white. Luster: Greasy to vitreous; nearly
    submetallic in black crystals.
    Optical Class: Biaxial (–). Pleochroism: X = yellow, reddish brown, oil-green; Y = oil-green,
    reddish brown; Z = brown, light brown. Orientation: X ∧ c = 13◦ ; Y = b. Dispersion: r > v,
    rather strong. Absorption: X > Y > Z. α = 2.13(1) β = 2.19(1) γ = 2.20(1)
    2V(meas.) = 30(1)◦ 2V(calc.) = 28◦
    Cell Data: Space Group: P 21 /c (synthetic). a = 5.1505(1) b = 5.2116(1) c = 5.3173(1)
    β = 99.230(1)◦ Z = 4
    X-ray Powder Pattern: Phalaborwa, South Africa.
    3.15 (10), 2.835 (9), 2.62 (5), 1.817 (5), 3.66 (4), 3.51 (4), 1.847 (4)
    Chemistry: (1) (2) (1) (2) (1) (2)
    SiO2 0.19 0.08 HfO2 0.93 CaO 0.06
    TiO2 0.56 Fe2 O3 0.82 LOI 0.28
    ZrO2 98.90 97.8 FeO 1.3
    Total 100.25 100.67
    (1) Balangoda, Sri Lanka. (2) Axel Heiberg Island, Canadian Arctic Archipelago; by electron
    microprobe, average of 35 analyses.
    Occurrence: An accessory mineral in carbonatites and kimberlites; in syenites, diabases,
    gabbros, anorthosites; detrital in gem gravels. In lunar basalt, tektites, and meteorites.
    Association: Ilmenite, zirkelite, apatite, magnetite, perovskite (Jacupiranga mine, Brazil);
    fluorite, nepheline, pyrochlore, allanite (Monte Somma, Italy).
    Distribution: At Rakwana and Balangoda, Sri Lanka. From Monte Somma, Campania,
    Italy. In Russia, large crystals from the Kovdor massif, and in the Gulinskii massif, the
    Vuoriyarvi carbonatite complex, and the Imandrovsky layered intrusion, Kola Peninsula; in the
    Lukkulaisvaara layered intrusion, Karelia. At the Jacupiranga mine, São Paulo, and at Poços de
    Caldas, Minas Gerais, Brazil. From Bozeman, Gallatin Co., Montana, USA. In the Bingo deposit,
    Kivu Province, Congo (Zaire). From Catanda, Angola. At Benfontein, and in large crystals from
    Phalaborwa, Transvaal, South Africa. Other minor occurrences are known.
    Name: For Joseph Baddeley, who first called attention to the Sri Lankan material.
    Type Material: The Natural History Museum, London, England.
    References: (1) Palache, C., H. Berman, and C. Frondel (1944) Dana’s system of mineralogy,
    (7th edition), v. I, 608–610. (2) Heimstra, S.A. (1955) Baddeleyite from Phalaborwra, Eastern
    Transvaal. Amer. Mineral., 40, 275–282. (3) Keil, K. and P.E. Fricker (1974) Baddeleyite (ZrO2 )
    in gabbroic rocks from Axel Heiberg Island, Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Amer. Mineral.,
    59, 249–253. (4) Scatena-Wachel, D.E. and A.P. Jones (1984) Primary baddeleyite (ZrO2 ) in
    kimberlite from Benfontein, South Africa. Mineral. Mag., 48, 257–261. (5) Heaman, L.M. and
    A.N. LeCheminant (1993) Paragenesis and U–Pb systematics of baddeleyite (ZrO2 ). Chem.
    Geol., 110, 95–126. (6) Howard, C.J., R.J. Hill, and B.E. Reichert (1988) Structures of the ZrO2
    polymorphs at room temperature by high-resolution neutron powder diffraction. Acta Cryst., 44,
    116–120.
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