“…Since the R 2 Fe 17 compounds exhibit different crystal structures and different types of coupling between the moments of the R-and the Fe-sublattices, depending on whether R is a light or a heavy rare earth element, it is interesting to investigate the structural and magnetic properties of mixed rare earths R 2 Fe 17 intermetallic compounds [6][7][8][9]. Recent neutron diffraction (ND) studies on the Nd/Dy mixed rare earths system evidenced the R3m rhombohedral cell, but a good fit to the ND data could not be obtained with the stoichiometric model [10].…”