Phosphoferrite R090058
Name: Phosphoferrite
RRUFF ID: R090058
Ideal Chemistry: Fe2+3(PO4)2·3H2O
Locality: Palermo #1, North Groton, New Hampshire, USA
Source: Royal Ontario Museum M53457
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Pale brown translucent pseudo-octahedral crystals associated with blue vivianite and colorless triphylite
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by single crystal X-ray diffraction.
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW
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POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R090058.9
Sample Description: Single crystal, powder profile is calculated
Cell Refinement Output: a: 9.524(3)Å    b: 10.129(3)Å    c: 8.690(2)Å
alpha: 90°    beta: 90°    gamma: 90°   Volume: 838.3(5)    Crystal System: orthorhombic
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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Phosphoferrite

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]

Laubmann H, Steinmetz H (1920) Phosphatführende pegmatite des Oberpfälzer und Bayerischen Waldes, Zeitschrift für Krystallographie und Mineralogie, 55, 523-586   [view file]

Wherry E T, Gordon S G, Foshag W F (1921) New minerals, American Mineralogist, 6, 63-68   [view file]

Foshag W F (1928) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 13, 32-34   [view file]

Tennyson C (1954) Phosphoferrit und reddingit von Hagendorf, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Abhandlungen, 87, 185-217

Moore P B, Araki T (1976) A mixed-valence solid-solution series: crystal structures of phosphoferrite, FeII3(H2O)3[PO4]2, and kryzhanovskite, FeIII3(OH)3[PO4]2, Inorganic Chemistry, 15, 316-321

Moore P B, Araki T, Kampf A R (1980) Nomenclature of the phosphoferrite structure type: refinements of landesite and kryzhanovskite, Mineralogical Magazine, 43, 789-795   [view file]