Vivianite R050596
Name: Vivianite
RRUFF ID: R050596
Ideal Chemistry: Fe2+3(PO4)2·8H2O
Locality: Chernomorskiy Quarry, near Kertch City, Crimea Peninsula, Ukraine
Source: Barb Dutrow
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Group of dark blue elongated prismatic single crystals in a fossilized clam shell
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis
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CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R050596.2
Sample Description: Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry: (Fe2+2.89Mg0.08Mn0.03)Σ=3(P1.00O4)2·8H2O
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
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RRUFF ID: R050596
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW
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INFRARED SPECTRUM (Attenuated Total Reflectance) 
RRUFF ID: R050596.1
Instrument settings: SensIR Durascope on a Nicolet Magna 860 FTIR
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POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R050596.1
Sample Description: Powder
Cell Refinement Output: a: 10.09577(2)Å    b: 13.34554(4)Å    c: 4.67486(2)Å
alpha: 90.°    beta: 104.6409(3)°    gamma: 90.°   Volume: 609.409(2)    Crystal System: monoclinic
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REFERENCES for Vivianite

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]

Werner A G (1817) Vivianit, in Letztes Mineral-System bey Craz und Gerlach, und bey Carl Gerold Freiberg und Wien 41-42   [view file]

Mori H, Ito T (1950) The structure of vivianite and symplesite, Acta Crystallographica, 3, 1-6

Faye G H (1968) The optical absorption spectra of iron in six-coordinate sites in chlorite, biotite, phlogopite and vivianite. Some aspects of pleochroism in the sheet silicates, The Canadian Mineralogist, 9, 403-425   [view file]

Fejdi P, Poullen J F, Gaspérin M (1980) Affinement de la structure de la vivianite Fe3(PO4)2·8H2O, Bulletin de Minéralogie, 103, 135-138

Dormann J L, Gaspérin M, Poullen J F (1982) Étude structurale de la séquence d‘oxydationde la vivianite Fe3(PO4)2·8H2O, Bulletin de Minéralogie, 105, 147-160

Piriou B, Poullen J F (1984) Raman-study of vivianite, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 15, 343-346

Bartl H (1989) Water of crystallization and its hydrogen-bonded crosslinking in vivianite Fe3(PO4)2·8H2O; a neutron diffraction investigation, Fresenius' Zeitschrift für Analytische Chemie, 333, 401-403

Manning P G, Murphy T P, Prepas E E (1991) Intensive formation of vivianite in the bottom sediments of mesotrophic Narrow Lake, Alberta, The Canadian Mineralogist, 29, 77-85   [view file]

Martincea S, Constantinescu E, Ladriere J (1997) Relatively unoxidized vivianite in limnic coal from Capeni, Baraolt Basin, Romania, The Canadian Mineralogist, 35, 713-722   [view file]

Frost R L, Martens W, Williams P A, Kloprogge J T (2002) Raman and infrared spectroscopic study of the vivianite-group phosphates vivianite, baricite, and bobierrite, Mineralogical Magazine, 66, 1063-1073   [link]   [view file]

Frankel R B, Bazylinski D A (2003) Biologically induced mineralization by bacteria, Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, 54, 95-114

Frost R L, Kloprogge T, Weier M L, Martens W N, Ding Z, Edwards H G H (2003) Raman spectroscopy of selected arsenates - implications for soil remediation, Spectrochimica Acta Part A-Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 59, 2241-2246   [link]

Frost R L, Weier M (2004) Raman spectroscopic study of vivianites of different origins, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 2004, 445-463   [link]

Frost R L, Weier M, Lyon W G (2004) Metavivianite an intermediate mineral phase between vivianite, and ferro/ferristrunzite - a Raman spectroscopic study, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 2004, 228-240   [link]