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Lovozerite R120159

Name: Lovozerite
RRUFF ID: R120159
Ideal Chemistry: Na₃CaZrSi₆O₁₅(OH)₃
Locality: Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Rouville RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Source: Donald Doell [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Yellow massive on ussingite (R140806).
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by single crystal X-ray diffraction.

Mineral Groups: [ Lovozerite (3) ] [ Zirsinalite–Lovozerite (3) ]

Quick search: [ All Lovozerite samples (2) ]

RAMAN SPECTRUM

RRUFF ID:

Sample Description:

Unoriented Raman on the primary sample

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BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS

RRUFF ID:

R120159

Wavelength:

Sample Description:

Unoriented Raman on the primary sample

Instrument settings:

Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW

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	Raman Data (Processed)
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POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R120159.9

Sample Description:

Single crystal, powder profile is calculated

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 10.168(3)Å b: 10.168(3)Å c: 13.031(5)Å
alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 120° Volume: 1166.8(4)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 Lovozerite
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]
Gerassimovsky V I (1939) Lovozerite - a new mineral, Comptes Rendus (Doklady) de l'Académie des Sciences de l'URSS, 25, 753-756 [view file]
Foshag W F (1940) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 25, 504-504 [view file]
Ilyukhin V V, Belov N V (1960) Derivation of the structure of lovozerite from sections of the three-dimensional Patterson function, Soviet Physics - Crystallography, 5, 186-198 [view file]
Fleischer M (1974) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 59, 632-633 [view file]
Yamnova N A, Egorov-Tismenko Y K, Pekov I V (2001) Refined crystal structure of lovozerite Na₂CaZr[Si₆O₁₂(OH,O)₆]·H₂O, Crystallography Reports, 46, issue 6 937-941
Pekov I V, Chukanov N V, Yamnova N A, Egorov-Tismenko Y K, lndov A E (2003) Kapustinite, Na_5.5Mn_0.25ZrSi₆O₁₆(OH)₂, a new mineral from Lovozero massif (Kola peninsula) and the new data on the genetic crystallochemistry of the lovozerite group, Zapiski Vserossijskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva, 132, issue 6 1-14 [view file]
Pekov I V, Krivovichev S V, Zolotarev A A, Yakovenchuk V N, Armbruster T, Pakhomovsky Y A (2009) Crystal chemistry and nomenclature of the lovozerite group, European Journal of Mineralogy, 21, 1061-1071 [view file]

REFERENCES for Lovozerite

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]

Gerassimovsky V I (1939) Lovozerite - a new mineral, Comptes Rendus (Doklady) de l'Académie des Sciences de l'URSS, 25, 753-756 [view file]

Foshag W F (1940) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 25, 504-504 [view file]

Ilyukhin V V, Belov N V (1960) Derivation of the structure of lovozerite from sections of the three-dimensional Patterson function, Soviet Physics - Crystallography, 5, 186-198 [view file]

Fleischer M (1974) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 59, 632-633 [view file]

Yamnova N A, Egorov-Tismenko Y K, Pekov I V (2001) Refined crystal structure of lovozerite Na₂CaZr[Si₆O₁₂(OH,O)₆]·H₂O, Crystallography Reports, 46, issue 6 937-941

Pekov I V, Chukanov N V, Yamnova N A, Egorov-Tismenko Y K, lndov A E (2003) Kapustinite, Na_5.5Mn_0.25ZrSi₆O₁₆(OH)₂, a new mineral from Lovozero massif (Kola peninsula) and the new data on the genetic crystallochemistry of the lovozerite group, Zapiski Vserossijskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva, 132, issue 6 1-14 [view file]

Pekov I V, Krivovichev S V, Zolotarev A A, Yakovenchuk V N, Armbruster T, Pakhomovsky Y A (2009) Crystal chemistry and nomenclature of the lovozerite group, European Journal of Mineralogy, 21, 1061-1071 [view file]