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Desautelsite R060303

Name: Desautelsite
RRUFF ID: R060303
Ideal Chemistry: Mg₆Mn³⁺₂(CO₃)(OH)₁₆·4H₂O
Locality: 1.5 miles west of San Benito mountain, southern San Benito County, California, USA
Source: Michael Scott S100079 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: A druse of orange colored thin hexagonal crystals
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction.

Mineral Group: [ Hydrotalcite (22) ]

CHEMISTRY

RRUFF ID:	R060303.2
Sample Description:	Microprobe Fragment

RAMAN SPECTRUM

RRUFF ID:

Sample Description:

Unoriented Raman on the primary sample

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BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS

RRUFF ID:

R060303

Wavelength:

Sample Description:

Unoriented Raman on the primary sample

Instrument settings:

Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW

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	Raman Data (RAW)
	RRUFF File

POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R060303.9

Sample Description:

Single crystal, powder profile is calculated

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 3.124(4)Å b: 3.124(4)Å c: 23.54(2)Å
alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 120° Volume: 199.0(4)Å³ Crystal System: hexagonal

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 Desautelsite
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]
Dunn P J, Peacor D R, Palmer T D (1979) Desautelsite, a new mineral of the pyroaurite group, American Mineralogist, 64, 127-130 [view file]
Mills S J, Christy A G, Génin J -M R, Kameda T, Colombo F (2012) Nomenclature of the hydrotalcite supergroup: natural layered double hydroxides, Mineralogical Magazine, 76, 1289-1336 [view file]
Zhitova E S, Sheveleva R M, Kasatkin A V, Zolotarev A A, Bocharov V N, Kupchinenko A N, Belakovsky D I (2023) Crystal structure of hydrotalcite group mineral - desautelsite, Mg₆Mn^III₂(OH)₁₆(CO₃)·4H₂O, and relationship between cation size and in-plane unit cell parameter, Symmetry, 15, 1029 [link] [view file]

REFERENCES for Desautelsite

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]

Dunn P J, Peacor D R, Palmer T D (1979) Desautelsite, a new mineral of the pyroaurite group, American Mineralogist, 64, 127-130 [view file]

Mills S J, Christy A G, Génin J -M R, Kameda T, Colombo F (2012) Nomenclature of the hydrotalcite supergroup: natural layered double hydroxides, Mineralogical Magazine, 76, 1289-1336 [view file]

Zhitova E S, Sheveleva R M, Kasatkin A V, Zolotarev A A, Bocharov V N, Kupchinenko A N, Belakovsky D I (2023) Crystal structure of hydrotalcite group mineral - desautelsite, Mg₆Mn^III₂(OH)₁₆(CO₃)·4H₂O, and relationship between cation size and in-plane unit cell parameter, Symmetry, 15, 1029 [link] [view file]