Pascoite R060574
Name: Pascoite
RRUFF ID: R060574
Ideal Chemistry: Ca3V5+10O28·17H2O
Locality: Arrowhead Claim, Slick Rock, San Miguel County, Colorado, USA
Source: Michael Scott S100803 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Orange vitreous crust
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction.
Mineral Group: [ Pascoite (5) ]
CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R060574.2
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: R060574.9
Sample Description: Single crystal, powder profile is calculated
Cell Refinement Output: a: 19.65(1)Å    b: 10.185(8)Å    c: 10.956(8)Å
alpha: 90°    beta: 120.79(2)°    gamma: 90°   Volume: 1884(3)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 Pascoite

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]

Hillebrand W F, Merwin H E, Wright F E (1914) Hewettite, metahewettite and pascoite, hydrous calcium vanadates, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 53, 31-54   [view file]

Swallow A G, Ahmed F R, Barnes W H (1966) The crystal structure of pascoite, Ca3V10O28·17H2O, Acta Crystallographica, 21, 397-405

Frost R L, Erickson K L, Weier M L (2004) Hydrogen bonding in selected vanadates: a Raman and infrared spectroscopy study, Spectrochimica Acta Part A, 60, 2419

Hughes J M, Schindler M, Francis C A (2005) The C2/m disordered structure of pascoite, Ca3[V10O28]·17H2O: bonding between structural units and interstitial complexes in compounds containing the [V10O28]6- decavanadanate polyanion, The Canadian Mineralogist, 43, 1379-1386   [view file]

Locock A J, Piilonen P C, Ercit T S, Rowe R, Kolitsch U (2006) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 91, 710-715   [view file]

Kolitsch U, Rieck B, Brandstätter F, Schreiber F, Fabritz K H, Blaß G, Gröbner J (2014) Neufunde aus dem altem Bergbau und den Schlacken von Lavrion (II), Mineralien Welt, 25, 82-95

Hawthorne F C, Hughes J M, Cooper M A, Kampf A R (2022) Bonding between the decavanadate polyanion and the interstitial complex in pascoite-family minerals, The Canadian Mineralogist, 60, 341-359