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Serendibite R120069

Name: Serendibite
RRUFF ID: R120069
Ideal Chemistry: Ca₄[Mg₆Al₆]O₄[Si₆B₃Al₃O₃₆]
Locality: Mogok, Burma
Source: William W. Pinch [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Deep blue/purple fragment that almost appears black. Twinned by a 2-fold rotation around (010), according to single crystal X-ray diffraction.
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction.

Mineral Group: [ Sapphirine (12) ]

Quick search: [ All Serendibite samples (3) ]

RAMAN SPECTRUM

RRUFF ID:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

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BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS

RRUFF ID:

R120069

Wavelength:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

Instrument settings:

Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW

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	Raman Data (Processed)
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POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R120069.9

Sample Description:

Single crystal, powder profile is calculated

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 10.0130(7)Å b: 10.4001(9)Å c: 8.6431(8)Å
alpha: 106.415(4)° beta: 96.024(5)° gamma: 124.361(4)° Volume: 671.8(1)Å³ Crystal System: triclinic

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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	DIF File
	X-ray Data (XY - RAW)
	RRUFF File

REFERENCES for Serendibite
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]
Prior G T, Coomáraswámy A K (1903) Serendibite, a new borosilicate from Ceylon, Mineralogical Magazine, 13, 224-227 [view file]
Hutcheon I, Gunter A E, Lecheminant A N (1977) Serendibite from Penrhyn Group marble, Melville Peninsula, District of Franklin, The Canadian Mineralogist, 15, 108-112 [view file]
Van Derveer D G, Swihart G H, Sen Gupta P K, Grew E S (1993) Cation occupancies in serendibite: a crystal structure study, American Mineralogist, 78, 195-203 [view file]
Burt D M (1994) Vector representation of some mineral compositions in the aenigmatite group, with special reference to hogtuvaite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 32, 449-457 [view file]
Jensen B B (1996) Solid solution among members of the aenigmatite group, Mineralogical Magazine, 60, 982-986 [view file]
Kunzmann T (1999) The aenigmatite-rhönite mineral group, European Journal of Mineralogy, 11, 743-756 [view file]
Grew E S, Hålenius U, Pasero M, Barbier J (2008) Recommended nomenclature for the sapphirine and surinamite group (sapphirine supergroup), Mineralogical Magazine, 72, 839-876 [view file]
Belley P M, Grice J D, Fayek M, Kowalski P M, Grew E S (2014) A new occurrence of the borosilicate serendibite in tourmaline-bearing calc-silicate rocks, Portage-du-Fort marble, Grenville province, Québec: evolution of boron isotope and tourmaline compositions in a metamorphic context, The Canadian Mineralogist, 52, 595-615
Grice J D, Belley P M, Fayek M (2014) Serendibite, a complex chemical borosilicate mineral from Pontiac, Quebec: Description, chemical composition, and crystallographic data, The Canadian Mineralogist, 52, 1-14 [view file]

REFERENCES for Serendibite

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]

Prior G T, Coomáraswámy A K (1903) Serendibite, a new borosilicate from Ceylon, Mineralogical Magazine, 13, 224-227 [view file]

Hutcheon I, Gunter A E, Lecheminant A N (1977) Serendibite from Penrhyn Group marble, Melville Peninsula, District of Franklin, The Canadian Mineralogist, 15, 108-112 [view file]

Van Derveer D G, Swihart G H, Sen Gupta P K, Grew E S (1993) Cation occupancies in serendibite: a crystal structure study, American Mineralogist, 78, 195-203 [view file]

Burt D M (1994) Vector representation of some mineral compositions in the aenigmatite group, with special reference to hogtuvaite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 32, 449-457 [view file]

Jensen B B (1996) Solid solution among members of the aenigmatite group, Mineralogical Magazine, 60, 982-986 [view file]

Kunzmann T (1999) The aenigmatite-rhönite mineral group, European Journal of Mineralogy, 11, 743-756 [view file]

Grew E S, Hålenius U, Pasero M, Barbier J (2008) Recommended nomenclature for the sapphirine and surinamite group (sapphirine supergroup), Mineralogical Magazine, 72, 839-876 [view file]

Belley P M, Grice J D, Fayek M, Kowalski P M, Grew E S (2014) A new occurrence of the borosilicate serendibite in tourmaline-bearing calc-silicate rocks, Portage-du-Fort marble, Grenville province, Québec: evolution of boron isotope and tourmaline compositions in a metamorphic context, The Canadian Mineralogist, 52, 595-615

Grice J D, Belley P M, Fayek M (2014) Serendibite, a complex chemical borosilicate mineral from Pontiac, Quebec: Description, chemical composition, and crystallographic data, The Canadian Mineralogist, 52, 1-14 [view file]