R061041 - RRUFF Database: Raman, X-ray, Infrared, and Chemistry

Uvarovite R061041

Name: Uvarovite
RRUFF ID: R061041
Ideal Chemistry: Ca₃Cr₂(SiO₄)₃
Locality: Outokumpu, Finland
Source: Royal Ontario Museum M52536 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Emerald-green euhedral crystal
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis

Mineral Group: [ garnet (97) ]

Quick search: [ All Uvarovite samples (2) ]

CHEMISTRY

RRUFF ID:	R061041.2
Sample Description:	Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry:	(Ca_2.93Mg_0.05Mn_0.01◻_0.01)_Σ=3.00(Cr_1.23Al_0.72Fe³⁺_0.03Ti_0.02)_Σ=2(Si_1.00O₄)₃
Microprobe Data File:	[ Download Excel File ]

RAMAN SPECTRUM

RRUFF ID:

Sample Description:

Sample is oriented and mounted on a pin

Pin ID:

M01830

Orientation:

Laser parallel to a* (1 0 0). Fiducial mark perpendicular to laser is parallel to c [0 0 1].

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BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS

RRUFF ID:

R061041

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:

R061041.1

Instrument settings:

SensIR Durascope on a Nicolet Magna 860 FTIR

Resolution:

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POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R061041.1

Sample Description:

Powder

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 11.9433(3)Å b: 11.9433(3)Å c: 11.9433(3)Å
alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 1703.6(1)Å³ Crystal System: cubic

File Type Information

Calculated diffraction file.

File Type Information

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

File Type Information

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

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	Cell Refinement Data
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REFERENCES for Uvarovite
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]
Hess H (1832) Ueber den Uwarowit, eine neue Mineralspecies, Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 24, 388-389 [view file]
Frankel J J (1959) Uvarovite garnet and South African jade (hydrogrossular) from the Bushveld Complex, Transvaal, American Mineralogist, 44, 565-591 [view file]
Sastri G G K (1963) Note on a chrome and two menganese garnets from India, Mineralogical Magazine, 33, 508-511 [view file]
Grubb P L C (1965) An unusual occurrence of diopside and uvarovite near Thetford, Quebec, The Canadian Mineralogist, 8, 241-248 [view file]
International Mineralogical Association (1967) Commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Magazine, 36, 131-136 [view file]
Manning P G (1969) Optical absorption studies of grossular, andradite (var. colophonite) and uvarovite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 9, 723-729 [view file]
Novak G A, Gibbs G V (1971) The crystal chemistry of the silicate garnets, American Mineralogist, 56, 791-825 [view file]
Challis A, Grapes R, Palmer K (1995) Chromian muscovite, uvarovite, and zincian chromite: products of regional metasomatism in northwest Nelson, New Zealand, The Canadian Mineralogist, 33, 1263-1284 [view file]
Kolesov B A, Geiger C A (1997) Raman scattering in silicate garnets an investigation of their resonance intensities, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 28, 659-662 [link]
Kolesov B A, Geiger C A (1998) Raman spectra of silicate garnets, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 25, 142-151 [link]
Proenza J, Solé J, Melgarejo J C (1999) Uvarovite in podiform chromitite: the Moa–Baracoa ophiolitic massif, Cuba, The Canadian Mineralogist, 37, 679-690 [view file]
Milman V, Winkler B, Nobes R H, Akhmatchaya E V, Pickard C J, White J A (2000) Garnets: structure, compressibility, dynamics, and disorder, Journal of the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, 52, issue 7 22-25
Manoun B, de Waal D, Merkle R (2001) The crystal chemistry and Raman spectroscopy of kimberlitic G-9 garnets, Crystal Engineering, 4, 283-291 [link]
Klemme S, Van Miltenburg J C, Javorsky P, Wastin F (2005) Thermodynamic properties of uvarovite garnet (Ca₃Cr₂Si₃O₁₂), American Mineralogist, 90, 663-666 [view file]
Teertstra D K (2006) Index-of-refraction and unit-cell constraints on cation valence and pattern of order in garnet-group minerals, The Canadian Mineralogist, 44, 341-346 [view file]
Moroz T, Ragozin A, Salikhov D, Belikova G, Puchkov V, Kagi H (2009) Micro-Raman spectra of ugrandite garnet, Spectrochimica Acta Part A-Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 73, 436-439
Righter K, Sutton S, Danielson L, Pando K, Schmidt G, Yang H, Berthet S, Newville M, Choi Y, Downs R T, Malavergne V (2011) The effect of f_O2 on the partitioning and valence of V and Cr in garnet/melt pairs and the relation to terrestrial mantle V and Cr content., American Mineralogist, 96, 1278-1290 [view file]
Grew E S, Locock A J, Mills S J, Galuskina I O, Galuskin E V, Hålenius U (2013) Nomenclature of the garnet supergroup, American Mineralogist, 98, 785-811 [view file]
Fan D, Xu J, Ma M, Wei S, Zhang B, Liu J, Xie H (2015) P-V-T equation of state of Ca₃Cr₂Si₃O₁₂ uvarovite garnet by using a diamond-anvil cell and in-situ synchrotron X-ray diffraction, American Mineralogist, 100, 588-597
Caporuscio F A, Oberti R, Smyth J R (2019) X-site control on rare earth elements in eclogitic garnets – an XRD study, European Journal of Mineralogy, 31, 453-463

REFERENCES for Uvarovite

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]

Hess H (1832) Ueber den Uwarowit, eine neue Mineralspecies, Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 24, 388-389 [view file]

Frankel J J (1959) Uvarovite garnet and South African jade (hydrogrossular) from the Bushveld Complex, Transvaal, American Mineralogist, 44, 565-591 [view file]

Sastri G G K (1963) Note on a chrome and two menganese garnets from India, Mineralogical Magazine, 33, 508-511 [view file]

Grubb P L C (1965) An unusual occurrence of diopside and uvarovite near Thetford, Quebec, The Canadian Mineralogist, 8, 241-248 [view file]

International Mineralogical Association (1967) Commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Magazine, 36, 131-136 [view file]

Manning P G (1969) Optical absorption studies of grossular, andradite (var. colophonite) and uvarovite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 9, 723-729 [view file]

Novak G A, Gibbs G V (1971) The crystal chemistry of the silicate garnets, American Mineralogist, 56, 791-825 [view file]

Challis A, Grapes R, Palmer K (1995) Chromian muscovite, uvarovite, and zincian chromite: products of regional metasomatism in northwest Nelson, New Zealand, The Canadian Mineralogist, 33, 1263-1284 [view file]

Kolesov B A, Geiger C A (1997) Raman scattering in silicate garnets an investigation of their resonance intensities, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 28, 659-662 [link]

Kolesov B A, Geiger C A (1998) Raman spectra of silicate garnets, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 25, 142-151 [link]

Proenza J, Solé J, Melgarejo J C (1999) Uvarovite in podiform chromitite: the Moa–Baracoa ophiolitic massif, Cuba, The Canadian Mineralogist, 37, 679-690 [view file]

Milman V, Winkler B, Nobes R H, Akhmatchaya E V, Pickard C J, White J A (2000) Garnets: structure, compressibility, dynamics, and disorder, Journal of the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, 52, issue 7 22-25

Manoun B, de Waal D, Merkle R (2001) The crystal chemistry and Raman spectroscopy of kimberlitic G-9 garnets, Crystal Engineering, 4, 283-291 [link]

Klemme S, Van Miltenburg J C, Javorsky P, Wastin F (2005) Thermodynamic properties of uvarovite garnet (Ca₃Cr₂Si₃O₁₂), American Mineralogist, 90, 663-666 [view file]

Teertstra D K (2006) Index-of-refraction and unit-cell constraints on cation valence and pattern of order in garnet-group minerals, The Canadian Mineralogist, 44, 341-346 [view file]

Moroz T, Ragozin A, Salikhov D, Belikova G, Puchkov V, Kagi H (2009) Micro-Raman spectra of ugrandite garnet, Spectrochimica Acta Part A-Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 73, 436-439

Righter K, Sutton S, Danielson L, Pando K, Schmidt G, Yang H, Berthet S, Newville M, Choi Y, Downs R T, Malavergne V (2011) The effect of f_O2 on the partitioning and valence of V and Cr in garnet/melt pairs and the relation to terrestrial mantle V and Cr content., American Mineralogist, 96, 1278-1290 [view file]

Grew E S, Locock A J, Mills S J, Galuskina I O, Galuskin E V, Hålenius U (2013) Nomenclature of the garnet supergroup, American Mineralogist, 98, 785-811 [view file]

Fan D, Xu J, Ma M, Wei S, Zhang B, Liu J, Xie H (2015) P-V-T equation of state of Ca₃Cr₂Si₃O₁₂ uvarovite garnet by using a diamond-anvil cell and in-situ synchrotron X-ray diffraction, American Mineralogist, 100, 588-597

Caporuscio F A, Oberti R, Smyth J R (2019) X-site control on rare earth elements in eclogitic garnets – an XRD study, European Journal of Mineralogy, 31, 453-463