Nepheline R040025

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Record 2725 of 4216  

Name: Nepheline
RRUFF ID: R040025
Ideal Chemistry: Na3K(Al4Si4O16)
Locality: Bancroft, Ontario, Canada
Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 6304 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: White massive mixture of 88% nepheline, 12% cancrinite
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis
Mineral Groups: [ Tridymite (7) ] [ Nepheline (6) ]
Quick search: [ All Nepheline samples (3) ]
CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R040025.2
Sample Description: Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry: (Na0.77K0.23)Σ=1Al1.00Si1.00O4
Microprobe Data File: [ Download Excel File ]
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Sample is oriented, mounted onto a pin and polished
Pin ID: L00106
Orientation: Laser parallel to  c*  (0 0 1).     Fiducial mark perpendicular to laser is parallel to  b   [0 1 0].
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RRUFF ID: R040025
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW
INFRARED SPECTRUM (Attenuated Total Reflectance) 
RRUFF ID: R040025.1
Instrument settings: SensIR Durascope on a Nicolet Magna 860 FTIR
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POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R040025.1
Sample Description: Powder
Cell Refinement Output: a: 10.0011(2)Å    b: 10.0011(2)Å    c: 8.3855(4)Å
alpha: 90°    beta: 90°    gamma: 120°   Volume: 726.37(3)Å3    Crystal System: hexagonal
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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Nepheline

American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record]

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Rammelsberg C (1877) Ueber Nephelin, Monacit und Silberwismuthglanz, Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft, 29, 77-81   [view file]

Lorenzen J (1882) On some minerals from the sodalite-syenite in the Juliane-haab district, south Greenland, Mineralogical Magazine, 5, 49-70   [view file]

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Moyd L (1967) Abstract of paper presented at the twelfth annual meeting: Large nepheline and biotite crystals in calcite veins near Bancroft, Ontario, The Canadian Mineralogist, 9, 302-303   [view file]

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Matson D W, Sharma S K, Philpotts J A (1986) Raman-spectra of some tectosilicates and of glasses along the orthoclase-anorthite and nepheline-anorthite joins, American Mineralogist, 71, 694-704   [view file]

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Elías-Herrera M, Rubinovich-Kogan R, Cruz R L S, Sánchez-Zavala J L (1991) Nepheline-rich foidolites and rare-earth mineralization in the El Picacho Tertiary intrusive complex, Sierra de Tamaulipas, northeastern Mexico, The Canadian Mineralogist, 29, 319-336   [view file]

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Hassan I, Antao S M, Hersi A A M (2003) Single-crystal XRD, TEM and thermal studies of the satellite reflections in nepheline, The Canadian Mineralogist, 41, 759-783   [view file]

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Vulic P, Kahlenberg V, Konzett J (2008) On the existence of a Na-deficient monoclinic trinepheline with composition Na7.85Al7.85Si8.15O32, American Mineralogist, 93, 1072-1079   [view file]

Antao S M, Hassan I (2010) Nepheline: structure of three samples from the Bancroft area, Ontario, obtained using synchrotron high-resolution powder x-ray diffraction, The Canadian Mineralogist, 48, 69-80   [view file]

Zaitsev V A, Kogarko L N, Senin V G (2013) Phase equilibria in the system lamprophyllite-nepheline, Geochemistry International, 51, 889-895   [view file]

Hålenius U, Hatert F, Pasero M, Mills S J (2018) IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) Newsletter 42. New minerals and nomenclature modifications approved in 2018, Mineralogical Magazine, 82, 445-451   [view file]

Hamada M, Akasaka M, Ohfuji H (2019) Crystal chemistry of K-rich nepheline in nephelinite from Hamada, Shimane Prefecture, Japan, Mineralogical Magazine, 83, 239-247

Henderson, C M B (2020) Nepheline solid solution compositions: stoichiometry revisited, reviewed, clarified and rationalised, Mineralogical Magazine, 84, 813-838   [view file]