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Gordaite R100059

Name: Gordaite
RRUFF ID: R100059
Ideal Chemistry: NaZn₄(SO₄)(OH)₆Cl·6H₂O
Locality: San Francisco mine, Sierra Gorda, Chile
Source: William W Pinch [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Groups of pale bluish-green thin tabular crystals on quartz, associated with dark blue herbertsmithite.
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction.

Mineral Group: [ Ktenasite (6) ]

RAMAN SPECTRUM

RRUFF ID:

Sample Description:

Unoriented Raman on the primary sample

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BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS

RRUFF ID:

R100059

Wavelength:

Sample Description:

Unoriented Raman on the primary sample

Instrument settings:

Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW

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	Raman Data (RAW)
	RRUFF File

POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R100059.9

Sample Description:

Single crystal, powder profile is calculated

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 8.354(4)Å b: 8.354(4)Å c: 13.031(7)Å
alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 120° Volume: 787.6(1)Å³ Crystal System: hexagonal

File Type Information

Calculated diffraction file.

File Type Information

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

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	DIF File
	X-ray Data (XY - RAW)
	RRUFF File

REFERENCES for Gordaite
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]
Adiwidjaja G, Friese K, Klaska K H, Schlüter J (1997) The crystal structure of gordaite NaZn₄(SO₄)(OH)₆Cl·6H₂O, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 212, 704-707
Schlülter J, Klaska K H, Friese K, Adiwidjaja G, Gebhard G (1997) Gordaite, NaZn₄(SO₄)(OH)₆Cl·6H₂O, a new mineral from the San Francisco mine, Antofagasta, Chile, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1997, 155-162
Jambor J L, Grew E S, Roberts A C (1998) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 83, 185-189 [view file]
Kasatkin A V, Plášil J, Škoda R, Belakovskiy D I, Marty J, Meisser N, Pekov I V (2018) Redefinition of thérèsemagnanite, NaCo₄(SO₄)(OH)₆Cl·6H₂O: new data and relationship to 'cobaltogordaite', Mineralogical Magazine, 82, 159-170 [view file]
Mills S J, Missen O P, Favreau G (2019) The crystal structure of Ni-rich gordaite–thérèsemagnanite from Cap Garonne, France, Mineralogical Magazine, 83, 459-463

REFERENCES for Gordaite

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]

Adiwidjaja G, Friese K, Klaska K H, Schlüter J (1997) The crystal structure of gordaite NaZn₄(SO₄)(OH)₆Cl·6H₂O, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 212, 704-707

Schlülter J, Klaska K H, Friese K, Adiwidjaja G, Gebhard G (1997) Gordaite, NaZn₄(SO₄)(OH)₆Cl·6H₂O, a new mineral from the San Francisco mine, Antofagasta, Chile, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1997, 155-162

Jambor J L, Grew E S, Roberts A C (1998) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 83, 185-189 [view file]

Kasatkin A V, Plášil J, Škoda R, Belakovskiy D I, Marty J, Meisser N, Pekov I V (2018) Redefinition of thérèsemagnanite, NaCo₄(SO₄)(OH)₆Cl·6H₂O: new data and relationship to 'cobaltogordaite', Mineralogical Magazine, 82, 159-170 [view file]

Mills S J, Missen O P, Favreau G (2019) The crystal structure of Ni-rich gordaite–thérèsemagnanite from Cap Garonne, France, Mineralogical Magazine, 83, 459-463