Serendibite R070622

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Name: Serendibite
RRUFF ID: R070622
Ideal Chemistry: Ca4[Mg6Al6]O4[Si6B3Al3O36]
Locality: Sri Lanka
Source: Shinichi Kihara [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Deep blue-green vitreous crystals with conchoidal fracture.
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction.
Mineral Group: [ Sapphirine (12) ]
Quick search: [ All Serendibite samples (3) ]
CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R070622.2
Sample Description: Microprobe Fragment
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
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RRUFF ID: R070622
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 25% of 150mW
POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R070622.9
Sample Description: Single crystal, powder profile is calculated
Cell Refinement Output: a: 9.993(1)Å    b: 10.385(1)Å    c: 8.617(1)Å
alpha: 106.52(1)°    beta: 95.84(1)°    gamma: 124.407(8)°   Volume: 667.5(1)Å3    Crystal System: triclinic
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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Serendibite

American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record]

Anthony J W, Bideaux R A, Bladh K W, and Nichols M C (1990) Handbook of Mineralogy, Mineral Data Publishing, Tucson Arizona, USA, by permission of the Mineralogical Society of America. [view file]

Prior G T, Coomáraswámy A K (1903) Serendibite, a new borosilicate from Ceylon, Mineralogical Magazine, 13, 224-227   [view file]

Hutcheon I, Gunter A E, Lecheminant A N (1977) Serendibite from Penrhyn Group marble, Melville Peninsula, District of Franklin, The Canadian Mineralogist, 15, 108-112   [view file]

Van Derveer D G, Swihart G H, Sen Gupta P K, Grew E S (1993) Cation occupancies in serendibite: a crystal structure study, American Mineralogist, 78, 195-203   [view file]

Burt D M (1994) Vector representation of some mineral compositions in the aenigmatite group, with special reference to hogtuvaite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 32, 449-457   [view file]

Jensen B B (1996) Solid solution among members of the aenigmatite group, Mineralogical Magazine, 60, 982-986   [view file]

Kunzmann T (1999) The aenigmatite-rhönite mineral group, European Journal of Mineralogy, 11, 743-756   [view file]

Grew E S, Hålenius U, Pasero M, Barbier J (2008) Recommended nomenclature for the sapphirine and surinamite group (sapphirine supergroup), Mineralogical Magazine, 72, 839-876   [view file]

Belley P M, Grice J D, Fayek M, Kowalski P M, Grew E S (2014) A new occurrence of the borosilicate serendibite in tourmaline-bearing calc-silicate rocks, Portage-du-Fort marble, Grenville province, Québec: evolution of boron isotope and tourmaline compositions in a metamorphic context, The Canadian Mineralogist, 52, 595-615

Grice J D, Belley P M, Fayek M (2014) Serendibite, a complex chemical borosilicate mineral from Pontiac, Quebec: Description, chemical composition, and crystallographic data, The Canadian Mineralogist, 52, 1-14   [view file]