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Bismoclite R100197

Name: Bismoclite
RRUFF ID: R100197
Ideal Chemistry: BiOCl
Locality: El Guanaco Mine, Guanaco (Huanaco), Santa Catalina, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta Region, Chile
Source: Bob Jenkins [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Unconsolidated colorless fragments and tabular crystals.
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction.

Mineral Group: [ Matlockite (3) ]

RAMAN SPECTRUM

RRUFF ID:

Sample Description:

Unoriented Raman on the primary sample

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BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS

RRUFF ID:

R100197

Wavelength:

Sample Description:

Unoriented Raman on the primary sample

Instrument settings:

Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 25% of 150mW

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	Raman Data (RAW)
	RRUFF File

POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R100197.9

Sample Description:

Single crystal, powder profile is calculated

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 3.893(2)Å b: 3.893(2)Å c: 7.370(7)Å
alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 111.69(5)Å³ Crystal System: tetragonal

File Type Information

Calculated diffraction file.

File Type Information

Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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	DIF File
	X-ray Data (XY - RAW)
	RRUFF File

REFERENCES for Bismoclite
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]
Foshag W F, Hunt W F (1935) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 20, 813-814 [view file]
Mountain E D (1935) Two new bismuth minerals from South Africa, Mineralogical Magazine, 24, 59-64 [view file]
Bhaskara R A, Adusumilli M S (1965) Bismoclite from Brazil, The Canadian Mineralogist, 8, 390-391 [view file]
Keramidas K G, Voutsas G P, Rentzeperis P I (1993) The crystal structure of BiOCl, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 205, 35-40 [view file]
Testa F J, Cooke D R, Zhang L, Mas G R (2016) Bismoclite (BiOCl) in the San Francisco de los Andes Bi–Cu–Au deposit, Argentina. First occurrence of a bismuth oxychloride in a magmatic–hydrothermal breccia pipe and its usefulness as an indicator phase in mineral exploration, Minerals, 6, 62 [view file]

REFERENCES for Bismoclite

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]

Foshag W F, Hunt W F (1935) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 20, 813-814 [view file]

Mountain E D (1935) Two new bismuth minerals from South Africa, Mineralogical Magazine, 24, 59-64 [view file]

Bhaskara R A, Adusumilli M S (1965) Bismoclite from Brazil, The Canadian Mineralogist, 8, 390-391 [view file]

Keramidas K G, Voutsas G P, Rentzeperis P I (1993) The crystal structure of BiOCl, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 205, 35-40 [view file]

Testa F J, Cooke D R, Zhang L, Mas G R (2016) Bismoclite (BiOCl) in the San Francisco de los Andes Bi–Cu–Au deposit, Argentina. First occurrence of a bismuth oxychloride in a magmatic–hydrothermal breccia pipe and its usefulness as an indicator phase in mineral exploration, Minerals, 6, 62 [view file]