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Muscovite R060266

Name: Muscovite
RRUFF ID: R060266
Ideal Chemistry: KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂
Locality: Bolet, Vasterbotten, Sweden
Source: Michael Scott S100304 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Pink earthy massive
Status: The identification of this mineral has been made only by X-ray diffraction.

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

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RAMAN SPECTRUM

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Sample Description:

Unoriented Raman on the primary sample

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RRUFF ID:

R060266

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:

R060266.9

Sample Description:

Single crystal, powder profile is calculated

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 8.78(4)Å b: 13.14(7)Å c: 8.63(4)Å
alpha: 90° beta: 130.7(1)° gamma: 90° Volume: 754(3)Å³ Crystal System: monoclinic

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REFERENCES for Muscovite
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]
Dana J D (1850) Mica Family: Muscovite, in A System of Mineralogy, Third Edition George P Putnam New York 356-358 [view file]
Axelrod J M, Grimaldi F S (1949) Muscovite with small optic axial angle, American Mineralogist, 34, 559-572 [view file]
Claringbull G F (1953) Mineralogical Society (London), American Mineralogist, 38, 734-737 [view file]
Hurlbut C S (1956) Muscovite from Methuen Township, Ontario, American Mineralogist, 41, 892-898 [view file]
Clifford T N (1957) Fuchsite from a silurian (?) quartz conglomerate, Acworth Township, New Hampshire, American Mineralogist, 42, 566-568 [view file]
Fleischer M (1958) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 43, 1006-1008 [view file]
Zvyagin B B, Mishchenko K S (1960) Electron-diffraction refinement of the structure of muscovite, Soviet Physics - Crystallography, 5, 575-579 [view file]
Güven N, Burnham C W (1966) The crystal structure of 3T muscovite, Carnegie Institution of Washington Year book, 65, 290-293
Güven N, Burnham C W (1967) The crystal structure of 3T muscovite, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 125, 163-183 [view file]
Rothbauer R (1971) Untersuchung eines 2M1-muskovits mit neutronenstrahlen, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1971, 143-154
Leavens P B, Thomssen R W (1972) Identity of astrolite with muscovite, American Mineralogist, 57, 993-995 [view file]
Bailey S W (1977) Report of the I.M.A-I.U.Cr. Joint Committee on Nomenclature, American Mineralogist, 62, 411-415 [view file]
Tsipursky S I, Drits V A (1977) Effectivity of the electronic method of intensity measurement in structural investigation by electron diffraction, Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Fizicheskaya, 41, 2263-2271
Miller C F, Stoddard E F, Bradfish L J, Dollase W A (1981) Composition of plutonic muscovite: genetic implications, The Canadian Mineralogist, 19, 25-34 [view file]
Abbott R N (1985) Muscovite-bearing granites in the AFM liquidus projection, The Canadian Mineralogist, 23, 553-561 [view file]
Rule A C, Bailey S W (1985) Refinement of the crystal structure of phengite-2M₁, Clays and Clay Minerals, 33, 403-409
Knurr R A, Bailey S W (1986) Refinement of Mn-substituted muscovite and phlogopite, Clays and Clay Minerals, 34, 7-16
Guggenheim S, Chang Y H, Koster van Groos A F (1987) Muscovite dehydroxylation: High-temperature studies, American Mineralogist, 72, 537-550 [view file]
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]
Kontak D J (1990) The East Kemptville topaz-muscovite leucogranite, Nova Scotia. I. Geological setting and whole-rock geochemistry, The Canadian Mineralogist, 28, 787-825 [view file]
Kontak D J (1991) The East Kemptville topaz-muscovite leucogranite, Nova Scotia. II. Mineral chemistry, The Canadian Mineralogist, 29, 37-60 [view file]
Chabu M, Boulègue J (1992) Barian feldspar and muscovite from the Kipushi Zn-Pb-Cu deposit, Shaba, Zaire, The Canadian Mineralogist, 30, 1143-1152 [view file]
Kazachenko V T, Butsik L A, Sapin V I, Kitaev I V, Barinov N N, Narnov G A (1993) Vanadian—chromian tourmaline and vanadian muscovite in contact–metamorphosed carbonaceous rocks, Primorye, Russia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 31, 347-356 [view file]
Abbott R N (1994) Energy calculations bearing on the dehydroxylation of muscovite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 32, 87-92 [view file]
Amisano-Canesi A, Chiari G, Ferraris G, Ivaldi G, Soboleva S V (1994) Muscovite- and phengite-3T: crystal structure and conditions of formation, European Journal of Mineralogy, 6, 489-496
Catti M, Ferraris G, Hull S, Pavese A (1994) Powder neutron diffraction study of 2M₁ muscovite at room pressure and at 2 GPa, European Journal of Mineralogy, 6, 171-178
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]
Kontak D J, Farrar E, McBride S, Martin R F (1995) Mineral chemistry and ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar dating of muscovite from the East Kemptville leucogranite, southern Nova Scotia: evidence for localized resetting of ⁴⁰/³⁹Ar systematics in a shear zone, The Canadian Mineralogist, 33, 1237-1253 [view file]
Ni Y, Hughes J M (1996) The crystal structure of nanpingite-2M₂, the Cs end-member of muscovite, American Mineralogist, 81, 105-110 [view file]
Brigatti M F, Frigieri P, Poppi L (1998) Crystal chemistry of Mg-,Fe2+-bearing muscovites-2M1, American Mineralogist, 83, 775-785
Liang J J, Hawthorne F C, Swainson I P (1998) Triclinic muscovite: X-ray diffraction, neutron diffraction and photo-acoustic FTIR spectroscopy, The Canadian Mineralogist, 36, 1017-1027 [view file]
Raith J G, Vali H (1998) Fibrous chlorite and muscovite from the Kaisersberg graphite mine, Styria, Austria, The Canadian Mineralogist, 36, 741-754 [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]
Tomita K, Shiraki K, Kawano M (1998) Crystal structure of dehydroxylated 2M1 sericite and its relationship with mixed-layer mica/smectite, Clay Science, 10, 432-441
Guidotti C V, Sassi F P, Comodi P, Zanazzi P F, Blencoe J G (2000) The contrasting responses of muscovite and paragonite to increasing pressure: petrological implications, The Canadian Mineralogist, 38, 707-712 [view file]
Brigatti M F, Galli E, Medici L, Poppi L, Cibin G, Marcelli A, Mottana A (2001) Chromium-containing muscovite: crystal chemistry and XANES spectroscopy, European Journal of Mineralogy, 13, 377-389
Brigatti M F, Kile D E, Poppi M (2001) Crystal structure and crystal chemistry of lithium-bearing muscovite-2M₁, The Canadian Mineralogist, 39, 1171-1180 [view file]
Alfonso P, Melgarejo J C, Yusta I, Velasco F (2003) Geochemistry of feldspars and muscovite in granitic pegmatite from the Cap de Creus field, Catalonia, Spain, The Canadian Mineralogist, 41, 103-116 [view file]
Clarke D B, Bogutyn P A (2003) Oscillatory epitactic-growth zoning in biotite and muscovite from the Lake Lewis leucogranite, South Mountain Batholith, Nova Scotia, Canada, The Canadian Mineralogist, 41, 1027-1047 [view file]
Ondruš P, Veselovský F, Gabašová A, Hloušek J, Šrein V, Vavrín I, Skála R, Sejkora J, Drábek M (2003) Primary minerals of the Jáchymov ore district, Journal of the Czech Geological Society, 48, 19-147 [view file]
Tokiwai K, Nakashima S (2010) Integral molar absorptivities of OH in muscovite at 20 to 650 °C by in-situ high-temperature IR microspectroscopy, American Mineralogist, 95, 1052-1059 [view file]
Bačík P, Uher P, Ertl A, Jonsson E, Nysten P, Kanický V, Vaculovič T (2012) Zoned REE-enriched dravite from a granitic pegmatite in Forshammar Bergslagen Province, Sweden: An EMPA, XRD and LA-ICP-MS study, The Canadian Mineralogist, 50, 825-841 [view file]
Mesto E, Scordari F, Lacalamita M, Schingaro E (2012) Tobelite and NH₄⁺ -rich muscovite single crystals from Ordovician Armorican sandstones (Brittany, France): Structure and crystal chemistry, American Mineralogist, 97, 1460-1468 [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]
Zviagina B B, Drits V A (2012) Structural regularities in 2M₁ dioctahedral micas: The structure modeling approach, American Mineralogist, 97, 1939-1954 [view file]
Elmi C, Brigatti M F, Guggenheim S, Pasquali L, Montecchi M, Malferrari D, Nannarone S (2013) Sodian muscovite-2M₁: crystal chemistry and surface features, The Canadian Mineralogist, 51, 5-14
Hernández-Haro N, Ortega-Castro J, Del Valle C P, Muñoz-Santiburcio D, Sainz-Díaz C I, Hernández-Laguna A (2013) Computational study of the elastic behavior of the 2M₁ muscovite-paragonite series, American Mineralogist, 98, 651-664
Ishida K, Hawthorne F C (2013) Far-infrared spectra of synthetic dioctahedral muscovite and muscovite-tobelite series micas: Characterization and assignment of the interlayer I-O_inner and I-O_outer stretching bands, American Mineralogist, 98, 1848-1859
Marchal K L, Simmons W B, Falster A U, Webber K L, Roda-Robles E (2014) Geochemistry, mineralogy, and evolution of Li-Al micas and feldspars from the Mount Mica pegmatite, Maine, USA, The Canadian Mineralogist, 52, 221-233
Hofmeister A M, Carpenter P K (2015) Heat transport of micas, The Canadian Mineralogist, 53, 557-570
Hernández-Haro N, Muñoz-Santiburcio D, Pérez Del Valle C, Ortega-Castro J, Sainz-Díaz C I, Garrido C J, Hernández-Laguna A (2016) Compressibility of 2M₁ muscovite-paragonite series minerals: A computational study to 6 GPa, American Mineralogist, 101, 1207-1216
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
Hulsobosch N, Thomas R, Boiron M-C, Dewaele S, Muchez P (2017) Direct observation of boro-aluminosilicate melt compositions: Insights from Raman spectroscopy of melt inclusions in pegmatitic tourmaline of the Gatumba-Gitarama area (Rwanda), The Canadian Mineralogist, 55, 377-397
Ertl A, Rakovan J, Hughes J M, Bernhardt H-J, Rossman G R (2019) Vanadium-rich muscovite from Austria: Crystal structure, chemical analysis, and spectroscopic investigations, The Canadian Mineralogist, 57, 383-389

REFERENCES for Muscovite

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]

Dana J D (1850) Mica Family: Muscovite, in A System of Mineralogy, Third Edition George P Putnam New York 356-358 [view file]

Axelrod J M, Grimaldi F S (1949) Muscovite with small optic axial angle, American Mineralogist, 34, 559-572 [view file]

Claringbull G F (1953) Mineralogical Society (London), American Mineralogist, 38, 734-737 [view file]

Hurlbut C S (1956) Muscovite from Methuen Township, Ontario, American Mineralogist, 41, 892-898 [view file]

Clifford T N (1957) Fuchsite from a silurian (?) quartz conglomerate, Acworth Township, New Hampshire, American Mineralogist, 42, 566-568 [view file]

Fleischer M (1958) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 43, 1006-1008 [view file]

Zvyagin B B, Mishchenko K S (1960) Electron-diffraction refinement of the structure of muscovite, Soviet Physics - Crystallography, 5, 575-579 [view file]

Güven N, Burnham C W (1966) The crystal structure of 3T muscovite, Carnegie Institution of Washington Year book, 65, 290-293

Güven N, Burnham C W (1967) The crystal structure of 3T muscovite, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 125, 163-183 [view file]

Rothbauer R (1971) Untersuchung eines 2M1-muskovits mit neutronenstrahlen, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1971, 143-154

Leavens P B, Thomssen R W (1972) Identity of astrolite with muscovite, American Mineralogist, 57, 993-995 [view file]

Bailey S W (1977) Report of the I.M.A-I.U.Cr. Joint Committee on Nomenclature, American Mineralogist, 62, 411-415 [view file]

Tsipursky S I, Drits V A (1977) Effectivity of the electronic method of intensity measurement in structural investigation by electron diffraction, Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Fizicheskaya, 41, 2263-2271

Miller C F, Stoddard E F, Bradfish L J, Dollase W A (1981) Composition of plutonic muscovite: genetic implications, The Canadian Mineralogist, 19, 25-34 [view file]

Abbott R N (1985) Muscovite-bearing granites in the AFM liquidus projection, The Canadian Mineralogist, 23, 553-561 [view file]

Rule A C, Bailey S W (1985) Refinement of the crystal structure of phengite-2M₁, Clays and Clay Minerals, 33, 403-409

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

Guggenheim S, Chang Y H, Koster van Groos A F (1987) Muscovite dehydroxylation: High-temperature studies, American Mineralogist, 72, 537-550 [view file]

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]

Kontak D J (1990) The East Kemptville topaz-muscovite leucogranite, Nova Scotia. I. Geological setting and whole-rock geochemistry, The Canadian Mineralogist, 28, 787-825 [view file]

Kontak D J (1991) The East Kemptville topaz-muscovite leucogranite, Nova Scotia. II. Mineral chemistry, The Canadian Mineralogist, 29, 37-60 [view file]

Chabu M, Boulègue J (1992) Barian feldspar and muscovite from the Kipushi Zn-Pb-Cu deposit, Shaba, Zaire, The Canadian Mineralogist, 30, 1143-1152 [view file]

Kazachenko V T, Butsik L A, Sapin V I, Kitaev I V, Barinov N N, Narnov G A (1993) Vanadian—chromian tourmaline and vanadian muscovite in contact–metamorphosed carbonaceous rocks, Primorye, Russia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 31, 347-356 [view file]

Abbott R N (1994) Energy calculations bearing on the dehydroxylation of muscovite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 32, 87-92 [view file]

Amisano-Canesi A, Chiari G, Ferraris G, Ivaldi G, Soboleva S V (1994) Muscovite- and phengite-3T: crystal structure and conditions of formation, European Journal of Mineralogy, 6, 489-496

Catti M, Ferraris G, Hull S, Pavese A (1994) Powder neutron diffraction study of 2M₁ muscovite at room pressure and at 2 GPa, European Journal of Mineralogy, 6, 171-178

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]

Kontak D J, Farrar E, McBride S, Martin R F (1995) Mineral chemistry and ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar dating of muscovite from the East Kemptville leucogranite, southern Nova Scotia: evidence for localized resetting of ⁴⁰/³⁹Ar systematics in a shear zone, The Canadian Mineralogist, 33, 1237-1253 [view file]

Ni Y, Hughes J M (1996) The crystal structure of nanpingite-2M₂, the Cs end-member of muscovite, American Mineralogist, 81, 105-110 [view file]

Brigatti M F, Frigieri P, Poppi L (1998) Crystal chemistry of Mg-,Fe2+-bearing muscovites-2M1, American Mineralogist, 83, 775-785

Liang J J, Hawthorne F C, Swainson I P (1998) Triclinic muscovite: X-ray diffraction, neutron diffraction and photo-acoustic FTIR spectroscopy, The Canadian Mineralogist, 36, 1017-1027 [view file]

Raith J G, Vali H (1998) Fibrous chlorite and muscovite from the Kaisersberg graphite mine, Styria, Austria, The Canadian Mineralogist, 36, 741-754 [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]

Tomita K, Shiraki K, Kawano M (1998) Crystal structure of dehydroxylated 2M1 sericite and its relationship with mixed-layer mica/smectite, Clay Science, 10, 432-441

Guidotti C V, Sassi F P, Comodi P, Zanazzi P F, Blencoe J G (2000) The contrasting responses of muscovite and paragonite to increasing pressure: petrological implications, The Canadian Mineralogist, 38, 707-712 [view file]

Brigatti M F, Galli E, Medici L, Poppi L, Cibin G, Marcelli A, Mottana A (2001) Chromium-containing muscovite: crystal chemistry and XANES spectroscopy, European Journal of Mineralogy, 13, 377-389

Brigatti M F, Kile D E, Poppi M (2001) Crystal structure and crystal chemistry of lithium-bearing muscovite-2M₁, The Canadian Mineralogist, 39, 1171-1180 [view file]

Alfonso P, Melgarejo J C, Yusta I, Velasco F (2003) Geochemistry of feldspars and muscovite in granitic pegmatite from the Cap de Creus field, Catalonia, Spain, The Canadian Mineralogist, 41, 103-116 [view file]

Clarke D B, Bogutyn P A (2003) Oscillatory epitactic-growth zoning in biotite and muscovite from the Lake Lewis leucogranite, South Mountain Batholith, Nova Scotia, Canada, The Canadian Mineralogist, 41, 1027-1047 [view file]

Ondruš P, Veselovský F, Gabašová A, Hloušek J, Šrein V, Vavrín I, Skála R, Sejkora J, Drábek M (2003) Primary minerals of the Jáchymov ore district, Journal of the Czech Geological Society, 48, 19-147 [view file]

Tokiwai K, Nakashima S (2010) Integral molar absorptivities of OH in muscovite at 20 to 650 °C by in-situ high-temperature IR microspectroscopy, American Mineralogist, 95, 1052-1059 [view file]

Bačík P, Uher P, Ertl A, Jonsson E, Nysten P, Kanický V, Vaculovič T (2012) Zoned REE-enriched dravite from a granitic pegmatite in Forshammar Bergslagen Province, Sweden: An EMPA, XRD and LA-ICP-MS study, The Canadian Mineralogist, 50, 825-841 [view file]

Mesto E, Scordari F, Lacalamita M, Schingaro E (2012) Tobelite and NH₄⁺ -rich muscovite single crystals from Ordovician Armorican sandstones (Brittany, France): Structure and crystal chemistry, American Mineralogist, 97, 1460-1468 [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]

Zviagina B B, Drits V A (2012) Structural regularities in 2M₁ dioctahedral micas: The structure modeling approach, American Mineralogist, 97, 1939-1954 [view file]

Elmi C, Brigatti M F, Guggenheim S, Pasquali L, Montecchi M, Malferrari D, Nannarone S (2013) Sodian muscovite-2M₁: crystal chemistry and surface features, The Canadian Mineralogist, 51, 5-14

Hernández-Haro N, Ortega-Castro J, Del Valle C P, Muñoz-Santiburcio D, Sainz-Díaz C I, Hernández-Laguna A (2013) Computational study of the elastic behavior of the 2M₁ muscovite-paragonite series, American Mineralogist, 98, 651-664

Ishida K, Hawthorne F C (2013) Far-infrared spectra of synthetic dioctahedral muscovite and muscovite-tobelite series micas: Characterization and assignment of the interlayer I-O_inner and I-O_outer stretching bands, American Mineralogist, 98, 1848-1859

Marchal K L, Simmons W B, Falster A U, Webber K L, Roda-Robles E (2014) Geochemistry, mineralogy, and evolution of Li-Al micas and feldspars from the Mount Mica pegmatite, Maine, USA, The Canadian Mineralogist, 52, 221-233

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

Hernández-Haro N, Muñoz-Santiburcio D, Pérez Del Valle C, Ortega-Castro J, Sainz-Díaz C I, Garrido C J, Hernández-Laguna A (2016) Compressibility of 2M₁ muscovite-paragonite series minerals: A computational study to 6 GPa, American Mineralogist, 101, 1207-1216

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

Hulsobosch N, Thomas R, Boiron M-C, Dewaele S, Muchez P (2017) Direct observation of boro-aluminosilicate melt compositions: Insights from Raman spectroscopy of melt inclusions in pegmatitic tourmaline of the Gatumba-Gitarama area (Rwanda), The Canadian Mineralogist, 55, 377-397

Ertl A, Rakovan J, Hughes J M, Bernhardt H-J, Rossman G R (2019) Vanadium-rich muscovite from Austria: Crystal structure, chemical analysis, and spectroscopic investigations, The Canadian Mineralogist, 57, 383-389