Hummerite - RRUFF Database: Raman, X-ray, Infrared, and Chemistry

Hummerite R070450

Name: Hummerite
RRUFF ID: R070450
Ideal Chemistry: KMgV⁵⁺₅O₁₄·8H₂O
Locality: Hummer mine, Jo Dandy mine (Paradox D; Hummer; C; Blackburn; Yellow Bird No. 1; Oversight; Broker), Paradox Valley, Uravan District, Montrose County, Colorado, USA
Source: Michael Scott S100599 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Bright orange coarse grains, some showing tabular crystal forms
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction.

RAMAN SPECTRUM

RRUFF ID:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

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BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS

RRUFF ID:

R070450

Wavelength:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

Instrument settings:

Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 65% of 150mW

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POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R070450.9

Sample Description:

Single crystal, powder profile is calculated

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 8.817(4)Å b: 10.717(6)Å c: 11.070(5)Å
alpha: 65.79(1)° beta: 74.09(1)° gamma: 71.87(1)° Volume: 893(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 Hummerite
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]
Weeks A D, Cisney E A, Sherwood A M (1951) Hummerite and montroseite, two vanadium minerals from Montrose County, Colorado. Abstracts of papers presented at the thirty-first annual meeting of the MIneralogical Society of America at Washington, D.C., American Mineralogist, 36, 310-328 [view file]
Hughes J M, Schindler M, Rakovan J, Cureton F E (2002) The crystal structure of hummerite, KMg(V₅O₁₄)·8H₂O: bonding between the [V₁₀O₂₈]^6- structural unit and the {K₂Mg₂(H₂O)₁₆}⁶⁺ interstitial complex, The Canadian Mineralogist, 40, 1429-1435 [view file]

REFERENCES for Hummerite

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]

Weeks A D, Cisney E A, Sherwood A M (1951) Hummerite and montroseite, two vanadium minerals from Montrose County, Colorado. Abstracts of papers presented at the thirty-first annual meeting of the MIneralogical Society of America at Washington, D.C., American Mineralogist, 36, 310-328 [view file]

Hughes J M, Schindler M, Rakovan J, Cureton F E (2002) The crystal structure of hummerite, KMg(V₅O₁₄)·8H₂O: bonding between the [V₁₀O₂₈]^6- structural unit and the {K₂Mg₂(H₂O)₁₆}⁶⁺ interstitial complex, The Canadian Mineralogist, 40, 1429-1435 [view file]