Triphylite R050424 - RRUFF Database: Raman, X-ray, Infrared, and Chemistry

Triphylite R050424

Name: Triphylite
RRUFF ID: R050424
Ideal Chemistry: LiFe²⁺(PO₄)
Locality: Karibib, Namibia
Source: John Lucking
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Lime-green fine-grained massive
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis

Mineral Group: [ Olivine (61) ]

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CHEMISTRY

RRUFF ID:	R050424.2
Sample Description:	Microprobe fragment
Measured Chemistry:	Li_1.00(Fe²⁺_0.70Mn²⁺_0.28Mg_0.02)_Σ=1P_1.00O₄

RAMAN SPECTRUM

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Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

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BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS

RRUFF ID:

R050424

Wavelength:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

Instrument settings:

Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW

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INFRARED SPECTRUM (Attenuated Total Reflectance)

RRUFF ID:

R050424.1

Instrument settings:

SensIR Durascope on a Nicolet Magna 860 FTIR

Resolution:

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POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R050424.1

Sample Description:

Powder

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 4.7044(6)Å b: 10.366(2)Å c: 6.0329(9)Å
alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 294.20(5)Å³ Crystal System: orthorhombic

File Type Information

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

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REFERENCES for Triphylite
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]
Fuchs J N (1834) Ueber ein neues Mineral (Triphylin), Journal für Praktische Chemie, 3, 98-104 [view file]
Björling C O, Westgren A (1938) Minerals of the Varusträsk Pegmatite. IX. X-ray studies of triphylite, varulite and their oxidation products, Geologiska Föreningens i Stockholm Förhandlingar, 60, 67-72 [view file]
Björling C O, Westgren A (1938) Minerals of the Varuträsk Pegmatite, Geologiska Föreningens i Stockholm Förhandlingar, 60, 67-72 [view file]
Fontan P F, Huvelin P, Orliac M, Permingeat F (1976) La ferrisicklérite des pegmatites de sidi bou othmane (Jebilet, Maroc) et le groupe des minéraux à structure de triphylite, Bulletin de la Société Française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie, 99, 274-286 [view file]
Fransolet A M (1977) Intercroissances et inclusions dans les associations graftonite-sarcopside-triphylite, Bulletin de la Société Française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie, 100, 198-207 [view file]
Yakubovich O V, Simonov M A, Belov N V (1977) The crystal structure of a synthetic triphylite LiFe[PO₄], Soviet Physics - Doklady, 22, 347-348
Deganello S (1978) The crystal structure of triphylite after oxidation at 670°C, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1978, 128-134
Fransolet A-M, Antenucci D, Speetjens J-M, Tarte P (1984) An X-ray determinative method for the divalent cation ratio in the triphylite-lithiophilite series, Mineralogical Magazine, 48, 373-381 [view file]
Shigley J E, Brown G E (1985) Occurance and alteration of phosphate minerals at the Stewart Pegmatite, Pala District, San Diego County, California, American Mineralogist, 70, 395-408 [view file]
Wise M A, Černý P (1990) Beusite-triphylite intergrowths from the Yellowknife pegmatite field, Northwest Territories, The Canadian Mineralogist, 28, 133-139 [view file]
Streltsov V A, Belokoneva E L, Tsirelson V G, Hansen N K (1993) Multipole analysis of the electron density in triphylite, LiFePO₄, using X-ray diffraction data, Acta Crystallographica, B49, 147-153
Shannon R D, Shannon R C, Medenbach O, Fischer R X (2002) Refractive index and dispersion of fluorides and oxides, Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data, 31, 931-970 [view file]
Losey A, Rakovan J, Hughes J M, Francis C A, Dyar M D (2004) Structural variation in the lithiophilite-triphylite series and other olivine-group structures, The Canadian Mineralogist, 42, 1105-1115 [view file]
Fehr K Y, Hochleitner R, Schmidbauer E, Schneider J (2007) Mineralogy, Mössbauer spectra and electrical conductivity of triphylite Li(Fe²⁺,Mn²⁺)PO₄, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 34, 485-494
Dyar M D, Jawin E R, Breves E, Marchand G, Nelms M, Lane M D, Mertzman S A, Bish D L and Bishop J L (2014) Mössbauer parameters of iron in phosphate minerals: Implications for interpretation of martian data, American Mineralogist, 99, 914-942 [view file]
Roda-Robles E, Pesquera A, García de Madinabeitia S , Gil Ibarguchi J, Nizamoff J, Simmons W, Falster A, Galliski M A (2014) On the geochemical character of primary Fe-Mn phosphates belonging to the triphylite-lithiophilite, graftonite-beusite, and triplite-zwieselite series: first results and implications for pegmatite petrogenesis, The Canadian Mineralogist, 52, 321-335 [view file]
Birch W D (2018) Minerals in the arrojadite, alluaudite and jahnsite-whiteite groups from the Mount Wills pegmatite field, Victoria, Australia, European Journal of Mineralogy, 30, 635-645
Lyalina L M, Selivanova E A, Hatert F (2023) Nomenclature of the triphylite group of minerals, European Journal of Mineralogy, 35, 427-437 [view file]

REFERENCES for Triphylite

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]

Fuchs J N (1834) Ueber ein neues Mineral (Triphylin), Journal für Praktische Chemie, 3, 98-104 [view file]

Björling C O, Westgren A (1938) Minerals of the Varusträsk Pegmatite. IX. X-ray studies of triphylite, varulite and their oxidation products, Geologiska Föreningens i Stockholm Förhandlingar, 60, 67-72 [view file]

Björling C O, Westgren A (1938) Minerals of the Varuträsk Pegmatite, Geologiska Föreningens i Stockholm Förhandlingar, 60, 67-72 [view file]

Fontan P F, Huvelin P, Orliac M, Permingeat F (1976) La ferrisicklérite des pegmatites de sidi bou othmane (Jebilet, Maroc) et le groupe des minéraux à structure de triphylite, Bulletin de la Société Française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie, 99, 274-286 [view file]

Fransolet A M (1977) Intercroissances et inclusions dans les associations graftonite-sarcopside-triphylite, Bulletin de la Société Française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie, 100, 198-207 [view file]

Yakubovich O V, Simonov M A, Belov N V (1977) The crystal structure of a synthetic triphylite LiFe[PO₄], Soviet Physics - Doklady, 22, 347-348

Deganello S (1978) The crystal structure of triphylite after oxidation at 670°C, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1978, 128-134

Fransolet A-M, Antenucci D, Speetjens J-M, Tarte P (1984) An X-ray determinative method for the divalent cation ratio in the triphylite-lithiophilite series, Mineralogical Magazine, 48, 373-381 [view file]

Shigley J E, Brown G E (1985) Occurance and alteration of phosphate minerals at the Stewart Pegmatite, Pala District, San Diego County, California, American Mineralogist, 70, 395-408 [view file]

Wise M A, Černý P (1990) Beusite-triphylite intergrowths from the Yellowknife pegmatite field, Northwest Territories, The Canadian Mineralogist, 28, 133-139 [view file]

Streltsov V A, Belokoneva E L, Tsirelson V G, Hansen N K (1993) Multipole analysis of the electron density in triphylite, LiFePO₄, using X-ray diffraction data, Acta Crystallographica, B49, 147-153

Shannon R D, Shannon R C, Medenbach O, Fischer R X (2002) Refractive index and dispersion of fluorides and oxides, Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data, 31, 931-970 [view file]

Losey A, Rakovan J, Hughes J M, Francis C A, Dyar M D (2004) Structural variation in the lithiophilite-triphylite series and other olivine-group structures, The Canadian Mineralogist, 42, 1105-1115 [view file]

Fehr K Y, Hochleitner R, Schmidbauer E, Schneider J (2007) Mineralogy, Mössbauer spectra and electrical conductivity of triphylite Li(Fe²⁺,Mn²⁺)PO₄, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 34, 485-494

Dyar M D, Jawin E R, Breves E, Marchand G, Nelms M, Lane M D, Mertzman S A, Bish D L and Bishop J L (2014) Mössbauer parameters of iron in phosphate minerals: Implications for interpretation of martian data, American Mineralogist, 99, 914-942 [view file]

Roda-Robles E, Pesquera A, García de Madinabeitia S , Gil Ibarguchi J, Nizamoff J, Simmons W, Falster A, Galliski M A (2014) On the geochemical character of primary Fe-Mn phosphates belonging to the triphylite-lithiophilite, graftonite-beusite, and triplite-zwieselite series: first results and implications for pegmatite petrogenesis, The Canadian Mineralogist, 52, 321-335 [view file]

Birch W D (2018) Minerals in the arrojadite, alluaudite and jahnsite-whiteite groups from the Mount Wills pegmatite field, Victoria, Australia, European Journal of Mineralogy, 30, 635-645

Lyalina L M, Selivanova E A, Hatert F (2023) Nomenclature of the triphylite group of minerals, European Journal of Mineralogy, 35, 427-437 [view file]