Ferrobustamite R140843
Name: Ferrobustamite
RRUFF ID: R140843
Ideal Chemistry: CaFe2+Si2O6
Locality: Horado mine, Gifu Prefecture, Chubu Region, Honshu Island, Japan
Source: Michael Scott S106010 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Brown translucent massive. embedded in matrix
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by single crystal X-ray diffraction.
Mineral Group: [ Wollastonite (6) ]
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented Raman on the primary sample
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RRUFF ID: R140843
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Sample Description: Unoriented Raman on the primary sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 25% of 150mW
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POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R140843.9
Sample Description: Single crystal, powder profile is calculated
Cell Refinement Output: a: 7.884(2)Å    b: 7.234(1)Å    c: 13.929(4)Å
alpha: 89.74(2)°    beta: 95.60(1)°    gamma: 103.48(1)°   Volume: 763.8(2)Å3    Crystal System: triclinic
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Calculated diffraction file.

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

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REFERENCES for Ferrobustamite

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]

Tilley C E (1937) Wollastonite solid solutions from Scawt Hill, Co. Antrim, Mineralogical Magazine, 24, 569-572   [view file]

Rapoport P A, Burnham C W (1973) Ferrobustamite: The crystal structures of two Ca,Fe bustamite-type pyroxenoids, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 138, 419-438   [view file]

Fleischer M (1974) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 59, 632-633   [view file]

Shchipalkina N V, Chukanov N V, Rusakov V S, Pekov I V, Koshlyakova N N, Scholz R (2019) Iron distribution in Fe-rich bustamite-type minerals, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 46, 133-142