Searlesite R060076
Name: Searlesite
RRUFF ID: R060076
Ideal Chemistry: NaBSi2O5(OH)2
Locality: near Cave Spring, Esperalda County, Nevada, USA
Source: Dave Bunk Minerals [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Colorless prismatic single crystals
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction.
CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R060076.2
Sample Description: Microprobe Fragment
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: R060076.9
Sample Description: Single crystal, powder profile is calculated
Cell Refinement Output: a: 7.984(1)Å    b: 7.073(1)Å    c: 4.9049(6)Å
alpha: 90°    beta: 93.994(9)°    gamma: 90°   Volume: 276.31(9)Å3    Crystal System: monoclinic
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Calculated diffraction file.

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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Searlesite

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]

Larsen E S, Hicks W B (1914) Searlesite, a new mineral, American Journal of Science, 38, 437-440   [view file]

Fahey J J, Axelrod J M (1950) Searlesite from the Green River formation of Wyoming, American Mineralogist, 35, 1014-1020   [view file]

Milton C, Axelrod J M, Grimaldi F S (1955) New minerals, reedmergnerite (Na2O·B2O3·6SiO2) and eitelite (Na2O·MgO·2CO2) associated with leucosphenite, shortite, searlesite, and crocidolite in the Green River formation, Utah, American Mineralogist, 40, 326-327   [view file]

Kravchenko V B (1964) The crystal structure of searlesite, NaBSi2O5(OH)2, Soviet Physics - Crystallography, 9, 143-148   [view file]

Ghose S, Wan C (1976) Structural chemistry of borosilicates, part II: Searlesite, NaBSi2O5(OH): Absolute configuration, hydrogen locations, and refinement of the structure, American Mineralogist, 61, 123-129   [view file]