Tilleyite R050227


 Name: Tilleyite
RRUFF ID: R050227
Ideal Chemistry: Ca5Si2O7(CO3)2
Locality: Crestmore Quarry, Riverside County, California, USA
Source: Marcus Origlieri
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Aggregate of colorless subhedral crystals
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction.
CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R050227.2
Sample Description: Microprobe Fragment
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Sample is oriented, mounted onto a pin and polished.
Pin ID: L00225
Orientation: Laser parallel to  c*  (0 0 1).     Fiducial mark perpendicular to laser is parallel to  a   [1 0 0].
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RRUFF ID: R050227
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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: R050227.1
Sample Description: Powder
Instrument settings: SensIR Durascope on a Nicolet Magna 860 FTIR
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RRUFF ID: R050227.1
Sample Description: Powder
Instrument settings: PIKE GladiATR - Far-IR on a Nicolet Magna 860 FTIR
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POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R050227.1
Sample Description: Powder
Cell Refinement Output: a: 15.0945(6)Å    b: 10.2476(5)Å    c: 7.5773(3)Å
alpha: 90.°    beta: 105.156(4)°    gamma: 90.°   Volume: 1131.31(6)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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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Tilleyite

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]

Dunham K C (1933) A note on the texture of the Crestmore contact rocks, American Mineralogist, 18, 474-477   [view file]

Larsen E S, Dunham K C (1933) Tilleyite, a new mineral from the contact zone at Crestmore, California, American Mineralogist, 18, 469-473   [view file]

Smith J V (1953) The crystal structure of tilleyite, Acta Crystallographica, 6, 9-18

Belov N V (1957) New silicate structures, Acta Crystallographica, 10, 757-758

Louisnathan S J, Smith J V (1970) Crystal structure of tilleyite: refinement and coordination, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 132, 288-306   [view file]

Marincea S, Bilal E, Verkaeren J, Pascal M L, Fonteilles M (2001) Superposed parageneses in the spurrite-, tilleyite- and gehlenite-bearing skarns from Cornet Hill, Apuseni Mountains, Romania, The Canadian Mineralogist, 39, 1435-1453   [view file]

Grice J D (2005) The structure of spurrite, tilleyite and scawtite, and relationships to other silicate-carbonate minerals, The Canadian Mineralogist, 43, 1489-1500   [view file]

Marincea Ş, Dumitraş D G, Călin N, Anason A M, Fransolet A M, Hatert F (2013) Spurrite, tilleyite and associated minerals in the exoskarn zone from the Cornet Hill (Metaliferi Massif, Apuseni Mountains, Romania), The Canadian Mineralogist, 51, 359-375