R100181 - RRUFF Database: Raman, X-ray, Infrared, and Chemistry

Prosopite R100181

Name: Prosopite
RRUFF ID: R100181
Ideal Chemistry: CaAl₂F₄(OH)₄
Locality: Carlota mine, Pinto Creek, Gila, Arizona, USA
Source: Joe Ruiz [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Colorless granular crystals, associated with blue azurite, green elongated szenicsite (R100179) and pale green thick tabular powellite (R100180)
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction.

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RAMAN SPECTRUM

RRUFF ID:

Sample Description:

Unoriented Raman on the primary sample

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BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS

RRUFF ID:

R100181

Wavelength:

Sample Description:

Unoriented Raman on the primary sample

Instrument settings:

Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW

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POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R100181.9

Sample Description:

Single crystal, powder profile is calculated

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 6.703(2)Å b: 11.151(2)Å c: 7.367(1)Å
alpha: 90° beta: 94.98(2)° gamma: 90° Volume: 548.6(1)Å³ Crystal System: monoclinic

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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REFERENCES for Prosopite
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]
Scheerer T (1853) Ueber Pseudomorphosen, nebst Beiträgen zur Charakteristik eineger Arten derselben, Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 90, 315-323 [view file]
Pudovkina Z V, Pyatenko Y A (1970) About the structure of the prosopite, Ca[Al₂F₄(OH)₄], and about some features of the fluoroaluminate crystal chemistry, Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, 190, 665-667 [view file]
Pudovkina Z V, Chernitsova N M, Pyatenko Y A (1973) Refinement of the crystalline structure of prosopite, CaAl₂F₄(OH)₄, Journal of Structural Chemistry, 14, 345-347
Hongu H, Yoshiasa A, Teshima A, Isobe H, Sugiyama K, Arima H, Nakatsuka A, Momma K, Miyawaki R (2018) Crystal structure refinement and chemical formula of prosopite, CaAl₂F₄[(OH)_4-xF_x] x = 0.0-1.0, Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences, 113, 152-158 [view file]

REFERENCES for Prosopite

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]

Scheerer T (1853) Ueber Pseudomorphosen, nebst Beiträgen zur Charakteristik eineger Arten derselben, Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 90, 315-323 [view file]

Pudovkina Z V, Pyatenko Y A (1970) About the structure of the prosopite, Ca[Al₂F₄(OH)₄], and about some features of the fluoroaluminate crystal chemistry, Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, 190, 665-667 [view file]

Pudovkina Z V, Chernitsova N M, Pyatenko Y A (1973) Refinement of the crystalline structure of prosopite, CaAl₂F₄(OH)₄, Journal of Structural Chemistry, 14, 345-347

Hongu H, Yoshiasa A, Teshima A, Isobe H, Sugiyama K, Arima H, Nakatsuka A, Momma K, Miyawaki R (2018) Crystal structure refinement and chemical formula of prosopite, CaAl₂F₄[(OH)_4-xF_x] x = 0.0-1.0, Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences, 113, 152-158 [view file]