Walstromite R150079



Name: Walstromite
RRUFF ID: R150079
Ideal Chemistry: BaCa2Si3O9
Locality: Gun Claim, Yukon Territory, Canada
Source: Gunnar Farber [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Colorless granular or short prismatic crystals with good cleavage, associated with suzukiite (R150039), pellyite (R150078), and bavsiite.
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by single crystal X-ray diffraction.
Mineral Group: [ Margarosanite (3) ]
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RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented Raman on the primary sample
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RRUFF ID: R150079
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Sample Description: Unoriented Raman on the primary sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 50% of 150mW
POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R150079.9
Sample Description: Single crystal, powder profile is calculated
Cell Refinement Output: a: 6.741(3)Å    b: 9.601(3)Å    c: 6.683(3)Å
alpha: 69.78(2)°    beta: 102.35(2)°    gamma: 96.87(3)°   Volume: 396.0(1)Å3    Crystal System: triclinic
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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Walstromite

American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record]

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Dörsam G, Liebscher A, Wunder B, Franz G, Gottschalk M (2009) Crystal structure refinement of synthetic Ca0.43Sr0.57[SiO3]-walstromite and walstromite-fluid Ca-Sr distribution at upper-mantle conditions, European Journal of Mineralogy, 21, 705-714

Barkley M C, Downs R T, Yang H (2011) Structure of walstromite, BaCa2Si3O9, and its relationship to CaSiO3-walstromite and wollastonite-II, American Mineralogist, 96, 797-801   [view file]

Liu X, Wang S, He Q, Chen J, Wang H, Li S, Peng F, Zhang L, Fei Y (2012) Thermal elastic behavior of CaSiO3-walstromite: A powder X-ray diffraction study up to 900 ˚C, American Mineralogist, 97, 262-267   [view file]

Gaft M, Yeates H, Nagli L (2013) Laser-induced time-resolved luminescence of natural margarosanite Pb(Ca,Mn)2Si3O9. swedenborgite NaBe4SbO7 and walstromite BaCa2Si3O9, European Journal of Mineralogy, 25, 71-77

Callegari A M, Boiocchi M (2016) Crystal structure refinement of margarosanite PbCa2Si3O9 and relationship with walstromite BaCa2Si3O9, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Abhandlungen, 193, 205-213

Anzolini C, Prencipe M, Alvaro M, Romano C, Vona A, Lorenzon S, Smith E M, Brenker F E, Nestola F (2018) Depth of formation of super-deep diamonds: Raman barometry of CaSiO3-walstromite inclusions, American Mineralogist, 103, 69-74

Krzątała A, Krüger B, Galuskina I, Vapnik Y, Galuskin E (2020) Walstromite, BaCa2(Si3O9), from rankinite paralava within gehlenite hornfels of the Hatrium Basin, Negev Desert, Israel, Minerals, 10, 407   [view file]

Holtstam D, Cámara F, Karlsson A (2021) Instalment of the margarosanite group, and data on walstromite–margarosanite solid solutions from the Jakobsberg Mn–Fe deposit, Värmland, Sweden, Mineralogical Magazine, 85, 224-232