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Phlogopite R050485

Name: Phlogopite
RRUFF ID: R050485
Ideal Chemistry: KMg₃(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₂
Locality: Libby, Montana, USA
Source: California Institute of Technology W-20935
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Green micaceous fragment
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis

Mineral Groups: [ mica (50) ] [ Clay (86) ]

Quick search: [ All Phlogopite samples (4) ]

CHEMISTRY

RRUFF ID:	R050485.2
Sample Description:	Microprobe fragment
Measured Chemistry:	(K_0.92Na_0.06Ca_0.02)(Mg_0.80Fe²⁺_0.17Ti_0.02Cr_0.01)₃(Si_2.83Al_1.17)O₁₀(OH)₂

RAMAN SPECTRUM

RRUFF ID:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

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BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS

RRUFF ID:

R050485

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:

R050485.1

Sample Description:

Powder

Instrument settings:

SensIR Durascope on a Nicolet Magna 860 FTIR

Resolution:

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R050485.1

Sample Description:

Powder

Instrument settings:

PIKE GladiATR - Far-IR on a Nicolet Magna 860 FTIR

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POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R050485.1

Sample Description:

Powder

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 5.2874(8)Å b: 9.5213(7)Å c: 10.3428(3)Å
alpha: 90° beta: 101.802(8)° gamma: 90° Volume: 509.68(5)Å³ Crystal System: monoclinic

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

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REFERENCES for Phlogopite
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]
Breithaupt J F A (1841) Phengites Phlogopites, in Vollständige Charakteristik des Mineral-Systems 2nd Edition Arnoldische Buchhandlung Dresden and Leipzig 398-399 [view file]
Ross C S, Kerr P F (1932) The manganese minerals of a vein near Bald Knob, North Carolina, American Mineralogist, 17, 1-18 [view file]
Yoder H S, Eugster H P (1954) Phlogopite synthesis and stability range, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 6, 157-185
Faye G H (1968) The optical absorption spectra of iron in six-coordinate sites in chlorite, biotite, phlogopite and vivianite. Some aspects of pleochroism in the sheet silicates, The Canadian Mineralogist, 9, 403-425 [view file]
Faye G H, Hogarth D D (1969) On the origin of 'reverse pleochroism' of a phlogopite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 10, 25-34 [view file]
Hogarth D D, Brown F F, Pritchard (1970) Biabsorption, Mössbauer spectra, and chemical investigation of five phlogopite samples from Quebec, The Canadian Mineralogist, 10, 710-722 [view file]
Joswig W (1972) Neutronenbeugungsmessungen an einem 1M-Phlogopit, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1972, 1-11
Hazen R M, Burnham C W (1973) The crystal structures of one-layer phlogopite and annite, American Mineralogist, 58, 889-900 [view file]
Krausz K (1974) Potassium-barium exchange in phlogopite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 12, 394-398 [view file]
Tateyama H, Shimoda S, Sudo T (1974) The crystal structure of synthetic Mg^IV mica, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 139, 196-206 [view file]
International Mineralogical Association (1980) International Mineralogical Association: Commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Magazine, 43, 1053-1055 [view file]
Kwak T A P (1981) Sector–zoned annite₈₅phlogopite₁₅ micas from the Mt. Lindsay Sn—W—F(—Be) deposit, Tasmania, Australia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 19, 643-650 [view file]
Miyano T, Miyano S (1982) Ferri-annite from the Dales Gorge Member iron-formations, Wittenoom area, Western Australia, American Mineralogist, 67, 1179-1194 [view file]
Pasteris J D (1983) Spinel zonation in the De Beers kimberlite, South Africa: possible role of phlogopite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 21, 41-58 [view file]
Knurr R A, Bailey S W (1986) Refinement of Mn-substituted muscovite and phlogopite, Clays and Clay Minerals, 34, 7-16
Tlili A, Smith D C, Beny J M, Boyer H (1989) A Raman microprobe study of natural micas, Mineralogical Magazine, 53, 165-179 [view file]
Brigatti M F, Poppi L (1993) Crystal chemistry of Ba-rich trioctahedral micas-1M, European Journal of Mineralogy, 5, 857-871
Shaw C S J, Penczak R S (1996) Barium- and titanium-rich biotite and phlogopite from the Western and Eastern Gabbro, Coldwell alkaline complex, northeastern Ontario, The Canadian Mineralogist, 34, 967-975 [view file]
Alietti E, Brigatti M F, Poppi L (1997) Clintonite-1M: Crystal chemistry and its relationships to closely associated Al-rich phlogopite, American Mineralogist, 82, 936-945 [view file]
Rieder M, Cavazzini G, D’Yakonov Y S, Frank-Kamenetskii V A, Gottardt G, Guggenheim S, Koval P V, Muller G, Neiva A M R, Radoslovich E W, Robert J L, Sassi F P, Takeda H, Weiss Z, Wones D R (1998) Nomenclature of the micas, The Canadian Mineralogist, 36, 905-912 [view file]
McKeown D A, Bell M I, Etz E S (1999) Raman spectra and vibrational analysis of the trioctahedral mica phlogopite, American Mineralogist, 84, 970-976 [view file]
Brigatti M F, Medici L, Poppi L, Vaccaro C (2001) Crystal chemistry of trioctahedral micas-1M from the Alto Paranaíba Igneous Province, southeastern Brazil, The Canadian Mineralogist, 39, 1333-1345 [view file]
Ferraris G, Gula A, Ivaldi G, Nespolo M, Sokolova E, Uvarova Y, Khomyakov A P (2001) First structure determination of an MDO-2O mica polytype associated with a 1M polytype, European Journal of Mineralogy, 13, 1013-1023
Schingaro E, Scordari F, Ventruti G (2001) Trioctahedral micas-1M from Mt. Vulture (Italy): Structural disorder and crystal chemistry, European Journal of Mineralogy, 13, 1057-1069
Kogure T, Banno Y, Miyawaki R (2004) Interlayer structure in aspidolite, the Na analogue of phlogopite, European Journal of Mineralogy, 16, 891-897
Brigatti M F, Caprilli E, Funiciello R, Giordano G, Mottana A, Poppi L (2005) Crystal chemistry of ferroan phlogopites from the Albano maar lake (Colli Albani volcano, central Italy), European Journal of Mineralogy, 17, 611-621
Chon C M, Lee C K, Song Y, Kim S A (2006) Structural changes and oxidation of ferroan phlogopite with increasing temperature: in situ neutron powder diffraction and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 33, 289-299
Mesto E, Schingaro E, Scordari F, Ottolini L (2006) An electron microprobe analysis, secondary ion mass spectrometry and single crystal X-ray diffraction study of phlogopites from Mt. Vulture, Potenza, Italy: Consideration of cation partitioning, American Mineralogist, 91, 182-190 [view file]
Scordari F, Ventruti G, Sabato A, Bellatreccia F, Della Ventura G, Pedrazzi G (2006) Ti-rich phlogopite from Mt. Vulture (Potenza, Italy) investigated by a multianalytical approach: substitutional mechanisms and orientation of the OH dipoles, European Journal of Mineralogy, 18, 379-391
Armbruster T, Richards R P, Gnos E, Pettke T, Herwegh M (2007) Unusual fibrous sodian tainiolite epitactic on phlogopite from marble xenoliths of Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada, The Canadian Mineralogist, 45, 541-549 [view file]
Laurora A, Brigatti M F, Mottana A, Malferrari D, Caprilli E (2007) Crystal chemistry of trioctahedral micas in alkaline and subalkaline volcanic rocks: A case study from Mt. Sassetto (Tolfa district, Latium, central Italy), American Mineralogist, 92, 468-480 [view file]
Matarrese S, Schingaro E, Scordari F, Stoppa F, Rosatelli G, Pedrazzi G, Ottolini L (2008) Crystal chemistry of phlogopite from Vulture-S. Michele Subsynthem volcanic rocks (Mt. Vulture, Italy) and volcanological implications, American Mineralogist, 93, 426-437 [view file]
Nazzareni S, Comodi P, Bindi L, Safonov O G, Litvin Y A, Perchuk L L (2008) Synthetic hypersilicic Cl-bearing mica in the phlogopite-celadonite join: a mulitmethodical characterization of the missing link between di- and tri-octahedral micas at high pressures, American Mineralogist, 93, 1429-1436 [view file]
Ventruti G, Zema M, Scordari F, Pedrazzi G (2008) Thermal behavior of a Ti-rich phlogopite from Mt. Vulture (Potenza, Italy): An in situ X-ray single-crystal diffraction study, American Mineralogist, 93, 632-643 [view file]
Zema M, Ventruti G, Lacalamita M, Scordari F (2010) Kinetics of Fe-oxidation/deprotonation process in Fe-rich phlogopite under isothermal conditions, American Mineralogist, 95, 1458-1466 [view file]
Scordari F, Schingaro E, Lacalamita, Mesto E (2012) Crystal chemistry of trioctahedral micas-2M₁ from Bunyaruguru kamafugite (southwest Uganda), American Mineralogist, 97, 430-439 [view file]
Scordari F, Schingaro E, Mesto E, Lacalamita M (2012) 2M₁-phlogopite from Black Hills (South Australia): The first case of configurational polytype in micas, American Mineralogist, 97, 2016-2023 [view file]
Williams Q, Knittle E, Scott H P, Liu Z (2012) The high-pressure behavior of micas: Vibrational spectra of muscovite, biotite, phloglopite, American Mineralogist, 97, 241-252 [view file]
Schingaro E, Lacalamita M, Scordari F, Mesto E (2013) 3T-phlogopite from Kasenyi kamafugite (SW Uganda): EPMA, XPS, FTIR, and SCXRD study, American Mineralogist, 98, 709-717
Hofmeister A M, Carpenter P K (2015) Heat transport of micas, The Canadian Mineralogist, 53, 557-570
Zhang M, Tarantino S C, Su W, Lou X, Ren X, Salje E K, Carpenter M A, Redfern S A (2016) Optical phonons, OH vibrations, and structural modifications of phlogopite at high temperatures: An in-situ infrared spectroscopic study, American Mineralogist, 101, 1873-1883
Breiter K, Vaňková M, Galiová M V, Korbelová Z, Kanický V (2017) Lithium and trace-element concentrations in trioctahedral micas from granites of different geochemical types measured via laser ablation ICP-MS, Mineralogical Magazine, 81, 15-33
Giebel R J, Gauert C D K, Marks M A W, Costin G, Markl G (2017) Multi-stage formation of REE minerals in the Palabora Carbonatite Complex, South Africa, American Mineralogist, 102, 1218-1233
Pascal M L, Fonteilles M, Tournis V, Baptiste B, Robert J L, Boulliard J C (2018) Ba-, Si- and vacancy-rich phlogopites from the talc-bearing sulfide ore deposit of La Creuse, Beaujolais, France, Mineralogical Magazine, 82, 1187-1210
Lacalamita M, Schingaro E, Mesto E, Zaccarini F, Biagioni C (2020) Crystal‐chemistry of micas belonging to the yangzhumingite‐fluorophlogopite and phlogopite‐fluorophlogopite series from the Apuan Alps (northern Tuscany, Italy), Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 47, 54 [view file]
Sun J, Yang Y, Ingrin J, Wang Z, Xia Q (2022) Impact of fluorine on the thermal stability of phlogopite, American Mineralogist, 107, 815-825

REFERENCES for Phlogopite

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]

Breithaupt J F A (1841) Phengites Phlogopites, in Vollständige Charakteristik des Mineral-Systems 2nd Edition Arnoldische Buchhandlung Dresden and Leipzig 398-399 [view file]

Ross C S, Kerr P F (1932) The manganese minerals of a vein near Bald Knob, North Carolina, American Mineralogist, 17, 1-18 [view file]

Yoder H S, Eugster H P (1954) Phlogopite synthesis and stability range, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 6, 157-185

Faye G H (1968) The optical absorption spectra of iron in six-coordinate sites in chlorite, biotite, phlogopite and vivianite. Some aspects of pleochroism in the sheet silicates, The Canadian Mineralogist, 9, 403-425 [view file]

Faye G H, Hogarth D D (1969) On the origin of 'reverse pleochroism' of a phlogopite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 10, 25-34 [view file]

Hogarth D D, Brown F F, Pritchard (1970) Biabsorption, Mössbauer spectra, and chemical investigation of five phlogopite samples from Quebec, The Canadian Mineralogist, 10, 710-722 [view file]

Joswig W (1972) Neutronenbeugungsmessungen an einem 1M-Phlogopit, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1972, 1-11

Hazen R M, Burnham C W (1973) The crystal structures of one-layer phlogopite and annite, American Mineralogist, 58, 889-900 [view file]

Krausz K (1974) Potassium-barium exchange in phlogopite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 12, 394-398 [view file]

Tateyama H, Shimoda S, Sudo T (1974) The crystal structure of synthetic Mg^IV mica, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 139, 196-206 [view file]

International Mineralogical Association (1980) International Mineralogical Association: Commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Magazine, 43, 1053-1055 [view file]

Kwak T A P (1981) Sector–zoned annite₈₅phlogopite₁₅ micas from the Mt. Lindsay Sn—W—F(—Be) deposit, Tasmania, Australia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 19, 643-650 [view file]

Miyano T, Miyano S (1982) Ferri-annite from the Dales Gorge Member iron-formations, Wittenoom area, Western Australia, American Mineralogist, 67, 1179-1194 [view file]

Pasteris J D (1983) Spinel zonation in the De Beers kimberlite, South Africa: possible role of phlogopite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 21, 41-58 [view file]

Knurr R A, Bailey S W (1986) Refinement of Mn-substituted muscovite and phlogopite, Clays and Clay Minerals, 34, 7-16

Tlili A, Smith D C, Beny J M, Boyer H (1989) A Raman microprobe study of natural micas, Mineralogical Magazine, 53, 165-179 [view file]

Brigatti M F, Poppi L (1993) Crystal chemistry of Ba-rich trioctahedral micas-1M, European Journal of Mineralogy, 5, 857-871

Shaw C S J, Penczak R S (1996) Barium- and titanium-rich biotite and phlogopite from the Western and Eastern Gabbro, Coldwell alkaline complex, northeastern Ontario, The Canadian Mineralogist, 34, 967-975 [view file]

Alietti E, Brigatti M F, Poppi L (1997) Clintonite-1M: Crystal chemistry and its relationships to closely associated Al-rich phlogopite, American Mineralogist, 82, 936-945 [view file]

Rieder M, Cavazzini G, D’Yakonov Y S, Frank-Kamenetskii V A, Gottardt G, Guggenheim S, Koval P V, Muller G, Neiva A M R, Radoslovich E W, Robert J L, Sassi F P, Takeda H, Weiss Z, Wones D R (1998) Nomenclature of the micas, The Canadian Mineralogist, 36, 905-912 [view file]

McKeown D A, Bell M I, Etz E S (1999) Raman spectra and vibrational analysis of the trioctahedral mica phlogopite, American Mineralogist, 84, 970-976 [view file]

Brigatti M F, Medici L, Poppi L, Vaccaro C (2001) Crystal chemistry of trioctahedral micas-1M from the Alto Paranaíba Igneous Province, southeastern Brazil, The Canadian Mineralogist, 39, 1333-1345 [view file]

Ferraris G, Gula A, Ivaldi G, Nespolo M, Sokolova E, Uvarova Y, Khomyakov A P (2001) First structure determination of an MDO-2O mica polytype associated with a 1M polytype, European Journal of Mineralogy, 13, 1013-1023

Schingaro E, Scordari F, Ventruti G (2001) Trioctahedral micas-1M from Mt. Vulture (Italy): Structural disorder and crystal chemistry, European Journal of Mineralogy, 13, 1057-1069

Kogure T, Banno Y, Miyawaki R (2004) Interlayer structure in aspidolite, the Na analogue of phlogopite, European Journal of Mineralogy, 16, 891-897

Brigatti M F, Caprilli E, Funiciello R, Giordano G, Mottana A, Poppi L (2005) Crystal chemistry of ferroan phlogopites from the Albano maar lake (Colli Albani volcano, central Italy), European Journal of Mineralogy, 17, 611-621

Chon C M, Lee C K, Song Y, Kim S A (2006) Structural changes and oxidation of ferroan phlogopite with increasing temperature: in situ neutron powder diffraction and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 33, 289-299

Mesto E, Schingaro E, Scordari F, Ottolini L (2006) An electron microprobe analysis, secondary ion mass spectrometry and single crystal X-ray diffraction study of phlogopites from Mt. Vulture, Potenza, Italy: Consideration of cation partitioning, American Mineralogist, 91, 182-190 [view file]

Scordari F, Ventruti G, Sabato A, Bellatreccia F, Della Ventura G, Pedrazzi G (2006) Ti-rich phlogopite from Mt. Vulture (Potenza, Italy) investigated by a multianalytical approach: substitutional mechanisms and orientation of the OH dipoles, European Journal of Mineralogy, 18, 379-391

Armbruster T, Richards R P, Gnos E, Pettke T, Herwegh M (2007) Unusual fibrous sodian tainiolite epitactic on phlogopite from marble xenoliths of Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada, The Canadian Mineralogist, 45, 541-549 [view file]

Laurora A, Brigatti M F, Mottana A, Malferrari D, Caprilli E (2007) Crystal chemistry of trioctahedral micas in alkaline and subalkaline volcanic rocks: A case study from Mt. Sassetto (Tolfa district, Latium, central Italy), American Mineralogist, 92, 468-480 [view file]

Matarrese S, Schingaro E, Scordari F, Stoppa F, Rosatelli G, Pedrazzi G, Ottolini L (2008) Crystal chemistry of phlogopite from Vulture-S. Michele Subsynthem volcanic rocks (Mt. Vulture, Italy) and volcanological implications, American Mineralogist, 93, 426-437 [view file]

Nazzareni S, Comodi P, Bindi L, Safonov O G, Litvin Y A, Perchuk L L (2008) Synthetic hypersilicic Cl-bearing mica in the phlogopite-celadonite join: a mulitmethodical characterization of the missing link between di- and tri-octahedral micas at high pressures, American Mineralogist, 93, 1429-1436 [view file]

Ventruti G, Zema M, Scordari F, Pedrazzi G (2008) Thermal behavior of a Ti-rich phlogopite from Mt. Vulture (Potenza, Italy): An in situ X-ray single-crystal diffraction study, American Mineralogist, 93, 632-643 [view file]

Zema M, Ventruti G, Lacalamita M, Scordari F (2010) Kinetics of Fe-oxidation/deprotonation process in Fe-rich phlogopite under isothermal conditions, American Mineralogist, 95, 1458-1466 [view file]

Scordari F, Schingaro E, Lacalamita, Mesto E (2012) Crystal chemistry of trioctahedral micas-2M₁ from Bunyaruguru kamafugite (southwest Uganda), American Mineralogist, 97, 430-439 [view file]

Scordari F, Schingaro E, Mesto E, Lacalamita M (2012) 2M₁-phlogopite from Black Hills (South Australia): The first case of configurational polytype in micas, American Mineralogist, 97, 2016-2023 [view file]

Williams Q, Knittle E, Scott H P, Liu Z (2012) The high-pressure behavior of micas: Vibrational spectra of muscovite, biotite, phloglopite, American Mineralogist, 97, 241-252 [view file]

Schingaro E, Lacalamita M, Scordari F, Mesto E (2013) 3T-phlogopite from Kasenyi kamafugite (SW Uganda): EPMA, XPS, FTIR, and SCXRD study, American Mineralogist, 98, 709-717

Hofmeister A M, Carpenter P K (2015) Heat transport of micas, The Canadian Mineralogist, 53, 557-570

Zhang M, Tarantino S C, Su W, Lou X, Ren X, Salje E K, Carpenter M A, Redfern S A (2016) Optical phonons, OH vibrations, and structural modifications of phlogopite at high temperatures: An in-situ infrared spectroscopic study, American Mineralogist, 101, 1873-1883

Breiter K, Vaňková M, Galiová M V, Korbelová Z, Kanický V (2017) Lithium and trace-element concentrations in trioctahedral micas from granites of different geochemical types measured via laser ablation ICP-MS, Mineralogical Magazine, 81, 15-33

Giebel R J, Gauert C D K, Marks M A W, Costin G, Markl G (2017) Multi-stage formation of REE minerals in the Palabora Carbonatite Complex, South Africa, American Mineralogist, 102, 1218-1233

Pascal M L, Fonteilles M, Tournis V, Baptiste B, Robert J L, Boulliard J C (2018) Ba-, Si- and vacancy-rich phlogopites from the talc-bearing sulfide ore deposit of La Creuse, Beaujolais, France, Mineralogical Magazine, 82, 1187-1210

Lacalamita M, Schingaro E, Mesto E, Zaccarini F, Biagioni C (2020) Crystal‐chemistry of micas belonging to the yangzhumingite‐fluorophlogopite and phlogopite‐fluorophlogopite series from the Apuan Alps (northern Tuscany, Italy), Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 47, 54 [view file]

Sun J, Yang Y, Ingrin J, Wang Z, Xia Q (2022) Impact of fluorine on the thermal stability of phlogopite, American Mineralogist, 107, 815-825