Category Oxide mineral Strunz classification 4.CC.35 Space group Pm3m | Formula
(repeating unit) SrTiO3 Crystal system Cubic | |
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Crystal class Hexoctahedral (m3m)
H-M symbol: (4/m 3 2/m) | ||
Tausonite is the rare naturally occurring mineral form of strontium titanate: chemical formula: SrTiO3. It occurs as red to orange brown cubic crystals and crystal masses.
It is a member of the perovskite group.
It was first described in 1982 for an occurrence in a syenite intrusive in Tausonite Hill, Murunskii Massif, Aldan Shield, Sakha Republic, Yakutia, Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia. It was named for Russian geochemist Lev Vladimirovich Tauson (1917–1989). It has also been reported from a fenite dike associated with a carbonatite complex in Sarambi, Concepción Department, Paraguay. and in high pressure metamorphic rocks along the Kotaki River area of Honshu Island, Japan.
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