Hilgardite R070427 - RRUFF Database: Raman, X-ray, Infrared, and Chemistry

Hilgardite R070427

Name: Hilgardite
RRUFF ID: R070427
Ideal Chemistry: Ca₂B₅O₉Cl·H₂O
Locality: Boulby mine, Loftus, Cleveland, England, UK
Source: Michael Scott S104632 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Massive etched pink crystallline associated with pale green boracite, polytype 3TC
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction.

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CHEMISTRY

RRUFF ID:	R070427.2
Sample Description:	Microprobe Fragment

RAMAN SPECTRUM

RRUFF ID:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

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BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS

RRUFF ID:

R070427

Wavelength:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

Instrument settings:

Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW

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POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R070427.9

Sample Description:

Single crystal, powder profile is calculated

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 6.464(1)Å b: 6.561(1)Å c: 6.296(1)Å
alpha: 61.599(9)° beta: 118.72(1)° gamma: 105.84(1)° Volume: 205.7(1) Crystal System: triclinic

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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REFERENCES for Hilgardite
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]
Hurlbut C S, Taylor R E (1937) Hilgardite, a new mineral species from Choctaw Salt Dome, Louisiana, American Mineralogist, 22, 1052-1057 [view file]
Kondrat'eva V V (1964) X-ray diffraction studies of some minerals of the hilgardite group, Rentgenografia Mineral'nogo Syr'ia, Moscow ('Nedra'), 4, 10-18 [view file]
Bailey S W (1977) Report of the I.M.A-I.U.Cr. Joint Committee on Nomenclature, American Mineralogist, 62, 411-415 [view file]
Ghose S (1985) A new nomenclature for the borate minerals in the hilgardite (Ca₂B₅O₉Cl·H₂O)–tyretskite (Ca₂B₅O₉OH·H₂O) group, American Mineralogist, 70, 636-637 [view file]
Nickel E H (1993) Standardization of polytype suffixes, Mineralogical Magazine, 57, 756-756 [view file]
Burns P C, Hawthorne F C (1994) Refinement of the structure of hilgardite-1A, Acta Crystallographica, C50, 653-655
Grice J D, Gault R A, Van Velthuizen J (2005) Borate minerals of the Penobsquis and Millstream deposits, southern New Brunswick, Canada, The Canadian Mineralogist, 43, 1469-1487 [view file]

REFERENCES for Hilgardite

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]

Hurlbut C S, Taylor R E (1937) Hilgardite, a new mineral species from Choctaw Salt Dome, Louisiana, American Mineralogist, 22, 1052-1057 [view file]

Kondrat'eva V V (1964) X-ray diffraction studies of some minerals of the hilgardite group, Rentgenografia Mineral'nogo Syr'ia, Moscow ('Nedra'), 4, 10-18 [view file]

Bailey S W (1977) Report of the I.M.A-I.U.Cr. Joint Committee on Nomenclature, American Mineralogist, 62, 411-415 [view file]

Ghose S (1985) A new nomenclature for the borate minerals in the hilgardite (Ca₂B₅O₉Cl·H₂O)–tyretskite (Ca₂B₅O₉OH·H₂O) group, American Mineralogist, 70, 636-637 [view file]

Nickel E H (1993) Standardization of polytype suffixes, Mineralogical Magazine, 57, 756-756 [view file]

Burns P C, Hawthorne F C (1994) Refinement of the structure of hilgardite-1A, Acta Crystallographica, C50, 653-655

Grice J D, Gault R A, Van Velthuizen J (2005) Borate minerals of the Penobsquis and Millstream deposits, southern New Brunswick, Canada, The Canadian Mineralogist, 43, 1469-1487 [view file]