Szomolnokite R070620
Name: Szomolnokite
RRUFF ID: R070620
Ideal Chemistry: Fe(SO4)·H2O
Locality: Oage mine, Ominato, Aomori-Ken, Honshu, Japan
Source: James Shigley [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Pulverulent colorless to pale yellow efflorescent grains. Larger colorless grain with scalloped surface was examined.
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by single crystal X-ray diffraction.
Mineral Group: [ Kieserite (4) ]
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 40% of 150mW
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POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R070620.9
Sample Description: Single crystal, powder profile is calculated
Cell Refinement Output: a: 7.077(5)Å    b: 7.537(8)Å    c: 7.765(7)Å
alpha: 90°    beta: 118.65(4)°    gamma: 90°   Volume: 363.5(4)Å3    Crystal System: monoclinic
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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Szomolnokite

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]

Krenner J (1928) Zwei neue Mineralien aus Ungarn, Zentralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie, 1928, 265-271   [view file]

Foshag W F (1929) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 14, 77-79   [view file]

Kubisz J (1960) Magnesium szomolnokite (Fe,Mg)SO4·H2O, Bulletin de l'Academie Polonaise des Sciences, Serie des Sciences Geologiques et Geographiques, 8, 101-105   [view file]

Fleischer M (1961) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 46, 241-244   [view file]

Cody R D, Biggs D L (1973) Halotrichite, szomolnokite, and rozenite from Dolliver State Park, Iowa, The Canadian Mineralogist, 11, 958-970   [view file]

Bariand P, Cesbron F, Berthelon J-P (1977) Les sulfates de fer de Saghand près de Yazd (Iran), Mémoire Hors-Série de la Société Géologique de France, 8, 77-85   [view file]

Wildner M, Giester G (1991) The crystal structures of kieserite-type compounds. I. Crystal structures of Me(II)SO4·H2O (Me = Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Zn), Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1991, 296-306

Lane M D (2007) Mid-infrared emission spectroscopy of sulfate and sulfate-bearing minerals, American Mineralogist, 92, 1-18   [view file]

Lopez-Reyes G, Sobron P, Lefebvre C, Rull F (2014) Multivariate analysis of Raman spectra for the identification of sulfates: Implications for ExoMars, American Mineralogist, 99, 1570-1579

Pitman K M, Noe Dobrea E Z, Jamieson C S, Dalton J B, Abbey W J, Joseph E C S (2014) Reflectance spectroscopy and optical functions for hydrated Fe-sulfates, American Mineralogist, 99, 1593-1603

Meusburger J M, Ende M, Talla D, Wildner M, Miletich R (2019) Transformation mechanism of the pressure-induced C2/c-to-P1 transition in ferrous sulfate monohydrate single crystals, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 277, 240-252

Talla D, Wildner M (2019) Investigation of the kieserite–szomolnokite solid-solution series, (Mg,Fe)SO4·H2O, with relevance to Mars: Crystal chemistry, FTIR, and Raman spectroscopy under ambient and martian temperature conditions, American Mineralogist, 104, 1732-1749   [view file]

Pardo O S, Dobrosavljevic V V, Perez T, Sturhahn W, Liu Z, Rossman G R, Jackson J M (2023) X-ray diffraction reveals two structural transitions in szomolnokite, American Mineralogist, 108, 476-484