Otavite R050677

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Name: Otavite
RRUFF ID: R050677
Ideal Chemistry: Cd(CO3)
Locality: Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Otavi District, Oshikoto, Namibia
Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 5891 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: White rhombohedra
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis
Mineral Group: [ Calcite (36) ]
CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R050677.2
Sample Description: Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry: (Cd0.91Zn0.05Pb0.04)Σ=1CO3 ; = lighter phase. The crystal is zoned. The darker phase is (Cd0.93Zn0.05Pb0.02)Σ=1CO3 ; the inclusion is cerussite: Pb1.00CO3
Microprobe Data File: [ Download Excel File ]
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented Raman on the primary sample
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RRUFF ID: R050677
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Sample Description: Unoriented Raman on the primary sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW
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INFRARED SPECTRUM (Attenuated Total Reflectance) 
RRUFF ID: R050677.1
Sample Description: Powder
Instrument settings: SensIR Durascope on a Nicolet Magna 860 FTIR
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POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R050677.1
Sample Description: Powder
Cell Refinement Output: a: 4.9138(2)Å    b: 4.9138(2)Å    c: 16.325(1)Å
alpha: 90.°    beta: 90.°    gamma: 120.°   Volume: 341.38(3)Å3    Crystal System: hexagonal
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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 Otavite

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]

Schneider O (1906) Vorläufige Notiz über einige sekundäre Minerlien von Otavi (Deutsch Süd-West-Afrika), darunter ein neues Cadmium-Mineral, Centralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie, 1906, 388-389   [view file]

Graf D L (1961) Crystallographic tables for the rhombohedral carbonates, American Mineralogist, 46, 1283-1316   [view file]

Rutt H N, Nicola J H (1974) Raman spectra of carbonates of calcite structure, Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics, 7, 4522-4528

Borodin V L, Liutin V I, Iliukhin V V (1979) Calcite - otavite isomorphous series, Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, 245, 1099-1101   [view file]

Liu L, Lin C (1997) A calcite --> aragonite-type phase transition in CdCO3, American Mineralogist, 82, 643-646   [view file]

Bromiley F A, Ballaran T B, Langenhorst F, Seifert F (2007) Order and miscibility in the otavite-magnesite solid solution, American Mineralogist, 92, 829-836   [view file]

Bromiley F A, Ballaran T B, Zhang M (2007) An infrared investigation of the otavite-magnesite solid solution, American Mineralogist, 92, 837-843   [view file]

Ballirano P (2016) Thermal behaviour of otavite, CdCO3, European Journal of Mineralogy, 28, 285-293

Wang M, Shi G, Qin J, Bai Q (2018) Thermal behaviour of calcite-structure carbonates: a powder X-ray diffraction study between 83 and 618 K, European Journal of Mineralogy, 30, 939-949