Pellyite R150078
Name: Pellyite
RRUFF ID: R150078
Ideal Chemistry: Ba2CaFe2+2Si6O17
Locality: Gun Claim, Yukon Territory, Canada
Source: Gunnar Farber [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Colorless tabular or prismatic crystals with conchoidal fracture, associated with suzukiite (R150039), walstromite (R150079), and bavsiite.
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction.
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented Raman on the primary sample
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RRUFF ID: R150078
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Sample Description: Unoriented Raman on the primary sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 50% of 150mW
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POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R150078.9
Sample Description: Single crystal, powder profile is calculated
Cell Refinement Output: a: 15.666(4)Å    b: 7.143(2)Å    c: 14.194(4)Å
alpha: 90°    beta: 90°    gamma: 90°   Volume: 1588.2(4)Å3    Crystal System: orthorhombic
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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 Pellyite

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]

Fleischer M (1972) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 57, 594-598   [view file]

Montgomery J H, Thompson R M, Meagher E P (1972) Pellyite: a new barium silicate mineral from the Yukon Territory, The Canadian Mineralogist, 11, 444-447   [view file]

Fleischer M (1973) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 58, 805-807   [view file]

Meagher E P (1976) The atomic arrangement of pellyite: Ba2Ca(Fe,Mg)2Si6O17, American Mineralogist, 61, 67-73   [view file]

Pabst A, Harris J (1984) Pellyite: new localities and new data, The Canadian Mineralogist, 22, 653-658   [view file]