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Name: Quartz RRUFF ID: X080016 Ideal Chemistry: SiO2 Locality: Synthetic Source: Gemological Institute of America 16730 Owner: GIA Description: Faceted citrine gemstone, 10.23 ct Status: The identification of this mineral has been determined only by Raman spectroscopy |
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Mineral Group: [ Quartz (11) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Quartz samples (10) ] |
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REFERENCES for Quartz | |
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American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record] |
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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] |
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Rülein von Calw, U (1527) Querz, in Ein nützilch Bergbüchlin: von allen Metallen / als Golt / Silber / Zcyn / Kupferertz / Eisenstein / Bleyertz / und vom Quecksilber Loersfelt Erffurd 25, 38 [view file] |
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Agricola G (1530) Quarzum, in Georgii Agricolae Medici Bermannus, Sive De Re Metallica in aedibus Frobenianis Basileae 88, 129 [view file] |
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Agricola G (1546) Book V. Quartz, in De Natura Fossilium Froben Basileae 249-275 [view file] |
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Wallerius J G (1747) in Mineralogia, eller Mineralriket Stockholm [view file] |
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Bras-de-Fer L (1778) (84) Terre (Élément), in Explication Morale du Jeu de Cartes; Anecdote Curieuse et Interessante Bruxelles 99-100 [view file] |
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Hoffmann C A S (1789) Mineralsystem des Herrn Inspektor Werners mit dessen Erlaubnis herausgegeben von C A S Hoffmann, Bergmannisches Journal, 1, 369-398 [view file] |
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Ichikawa S (1915) Studies on the etched figures of Japanese quartz, American Journal of Science, 39, 455-473 [view file] |
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Tomkeieff S I (1942) On the origin of the name quartz, Mineralogical Magazine, 26, 172-178 [view file] |
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Barrer R M, White E A D (1952) The hydrothermal chemitry of silicates Part II.* Synthetic crystalline sodium aluminosilicates, Journal of the Chemical Society, 1952, 1561-1571 [view file] |
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Cohen L H, Klement W (1967) High-low quartz inversion: Determination to 35 kilobars, Journal of Geophysical Research, 72, 4245-4251 |
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Green D H, Lockwood J P, Kiss E (1968) Eclogite and almandine-jadeite-quartz rock from the Guajira Peninsula, Columbia, South America, American Mineralogist, 53, 1320-1335 [view file] |
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Scott S D, O'Connor T P (1971) Fluid inclusions in vein quartz, Silverfields Mine, Cobalt, Ontario, The Canadian Mineralogist, 11, 263-271 [view file] |
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Bates J B, Quist A S (1972) Polarized Raman spectra of β-quartz, The Journal of Chemical Physics, 56, 1528-1533 |
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Ghent E D (1972) Electron microprobe study of allanite from the Mt. Falconer quartz monzonite pluton, Lower Taylor Valley, South Victoria Land, Antartica, The Canadian Mineralogist, 11, 526-530 [view file] |
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Corlett M I, McIlreath I A (1974) An authigenic quartz-calcite-rutile assemblage in ordovician limestones, The Canadian Mineralogist, 12, 411-416 [view file] |
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Barron T H K, Huang C C, Pasternak A (1976) Interatomic forces and lattice dynamics of α-quartz, Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics, 9, 3925-3940 |
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Le Page Y, Donnay G (1976) Refinement of the crystal structure of low-quartz, Acta Crystallographica, B32, 2456-2459 |
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Fransolet A M, Bourguignon P (1978) Di/trioctahedral chlorite in quartz veins from the Ardenne, Belgium, The Canadian Mineralogist, 16, 365-373 [view file] |
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Abbott R N, Clarke D B (1979) Hypothetical liquidus relationships in the subsystem Al2O3FeOMgO projected from quartz, alkali feldspar and plagioclase for a(H2O) ≤ 1, The Canadian Mineralogist, 17, 549-560 [view file] |
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Wright A F, Lehmann M S (1981) The structure of quartz at 25 and 590°C determined by neutron diffraction, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 36, 371-380 |
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Grambling J A (1984) Coesxisting paragonite and quartz in sillimanitic rocks from New Mexico, American Mineralogist, 69, 79-87 [view file] |
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Jayaraman A, Wood D L, Maines R G (1987) High-pressure Raman study of the vibrational modes in AlPO4 and SiO2 (α-quartz), Physical Review B, 35, 8316-8321 |
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Shiga Y, Urashima Y (1987) A sodian sulfatian fluorapatite from an epithermal calcite-quartz vein of the Kushikino mine, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, The Canadian Mineralogist, 25, 673-681 [view file] |
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Papike J J (1988) Chemistry of the rock-forming silicates: Multiple-chain, sheet, and framework structures, Reviews of Geophysics, 26, 407-444 [view file] |
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Sowa H (1988) The oxygen packings of low-quartz and ReO3 under high pressure, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 184, 257-268 [view file] |
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Drees L R, Wilding L P, Smeck N E, Senkayi A L (1989) Silica in soils: quartz and disordered silica polymorphs, in Minerals in Soil Environments Editor S B Weed. Soil Science Society of America Madison Wisconsin, USA 913-974 |
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Dubrovinskii L S, Nozik Y Z (1989) Calculation of the anisotropic thermal parameters of the atoms of α-quartz, Soviet Physics - Doklady, 34, 484-485 |
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Hazen R M ,Finger L W, Hemley R J, Mao H K (1989) High-pressure crystal chemistry and amorphization of α-quartz, Solid State Communications, 72, 507-511 |
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Rao P S, Weil J A, Williams J A S (1989) EPR investigation of carbonaceous natural quartz single crystals, The Canadian Mineralogist, 27, 219-224 [view file] |
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Kihara K (1990) An X-ray study of the temperature dependence of the quartz structure, European Journal of Mineralogy, 2, 63-77 |
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Chernosky J V, Berman R G (1991) Experimental reversal of the equilibrium andalusite + calcite + quartz = anorthite + CO2, The Canadian Mineralogist, 29, 791-802 [view file] |
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Lüttge A, Metz P (1991) Mechanism and kinetics of the reaction 1 dolomite + 2 quartz = 1 diopside + 2 CO2 investigated by powder experiments, The Canadian Mineralogist, 29, 803-821 [view file] |
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Vanko D A, Milby B J, Heinzquith S W (1991) Massive sulfides with fluid-inclusion-bearing quartz from a young seamount on the East Pacific Rise, The Canadian Mineralogist, 29, 453-460 [view file] |
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Glinnemann J, King H E, Schulz H, Hahn Th, La Placa S J, Dacol F (1992) Crystal structures of the low-temperature quartz-type phases of SiO2 and GeO2 at elevated pressure, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 198, 177-212 [view file] |
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Lentz D R, Fowler A D (1992) A dynamic model for graphic quartz-feldspar intergrowths in granitic pegmatites in the southwestern Grenville Province, The Canadian Mineralogist, 30, 571-585 [view file] |
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Samson I M, Sinclair W D (1992) Magmatic hydrothermal fluids and the origin of quartz - tourmaline orbicules in the Seagull batholith, Yukon Territory, The Canadian Mineralogist, 30, 937-954 [view file] |
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Sinclair W D, Richardson J M (1992) Quartz-tourmaline orbicules in the Seagull batholith, Yukon Territory, The Canadian Mineralogist, 30, 923-935 [view file] |
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Swamy V, Saxena S K, Sundman B, Zhang J (1994) A thermodynamic assessment of silica phase diagram, Journal of Geophysical Research, 99, 11787-11794 |
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Mulja T, Williams-Jones A E, Wood S A, Boily M (1995) The rare-element-enriched monzogranite - pegmatite - quartz vein systems in the Preissac-Lacorne batholith, Quebec. I. Geology and mineralogy, The Canadian Mineralogist, 33, 793-815 [view file] |
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Mulja T, Williams-Jones A E, Wood S A, Boily M (1995) The rare-element-enriched monzogranite - pegmatite - quartz vein systems in the Preissac-Lacorne batholith, Quebec. II. Geochemistry and petrogenesis, The Canadian Mineralogist, 33, 817-833 [view file] |
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Von Goerne G, Franz G, Robert J L (1999) Upper thermal stability of tourmaline + quartz in the system MgOAl2O3SiO2B2O3H2O and Na2OMgOAl2O3SiO2B2O3H2OHCl in hydrothermal solutions and siliceous melts, The Canadian Mineralogist, 37, 1025-1039 [view file] |
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Ghent E D, Stout M Z (2000) Mineral equilibria in quartz leucoamphibolites (quartzgarnetplagioclasehornblende cacl-silicates) from southeastern British Columbia, Canada, The Canadian Mineralogist, 38, 233-244 [view file] |
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Ouillon R, Pinan-Lucarre J P, Ranson P (2000) Anharmonicity of zone-centre optical phonons: Raman spectra of the isomorphous α-quartz, berlinite and gallium phosphate in the temperature range 8300 K, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 31, 605-613 |
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Monger H C, Kelly E F (2002) Silica minerals, in Soil Mineralogy with Environmental Applications Soil Science Society of America Madison Wisconsin, USA 611-636 |
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Ostroumov M, Faulques E, Lounejeva E (2002) Raman spectroscopy of natural silica in Chicxulub impactite, Mexico, Comptes Rendus Geoscience, 334, 21-26 |
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Botis S, Nokhrin S M, Pan Y, Xu Y, Bonli T, Sopuck V (2005) Natural radiation-induced damage in quartz. I. Correlations between cathodoluminescence colors and paramagnetic defects, The Canadian Mineralogist, 43, 1565-1580 [view file] |
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Antao S M, Hassan I, Wang J, Lee P L, Toby B H (2008) State-of-the-art high-resolution powder x-ray diffraction (HRPXRD) illustrated with Rietveld structure refinement of quartz, sodalite, tremolite, and meionite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 46, 1501-1509 [view file] |
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Baur W H (2009) In search of the crystal structure of low quartz, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 224, 580-592 |
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Korsakov A V, Perraki M, Zhukov V P, De Gussem K, Vandenabeele P, Tomilenko A A (2009) Is quartz a potential indicator of ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism? Laser Raman spectroscopy of quartz inclusions in ultrahigh-pressure garnets, European Journal of Mineralogy, 21, 1313-1323 |
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Cordier P, Heidelbach F (2013) Origin of twist in 'gwindel' quartz crystals from the Alps: a transmission electron microscopy study, European Journal of Mineralogy, 25, 145-153 |
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Drits V A, Skibsted J, Dorzhieva O V, Fallick A E, Lindgreen H (2017) Structural characterization of marine nano-quartz in chalk and flint from North Sea Tertiary chalk reservoirs for oil and gas, American Mineralogist, 102, 1402-1417 |
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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 |
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Negrão L B A, Da Costa M L, Pöllmann H, Horn A (2018) An application of the Rietveld refinement method to the mineralogy of a bauxite-bearing regolith in the Lower Amazon, Mineralogical Magazine, 82, 413-431 |
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Nesbitt H W, Bancroft G M, Henderson G S (2018) Temperature dependence of Raman shifts and line widths for Q0 and Q2 crystals of silicates, phosphates, and sulphates, American Mineralogist, 103, 966-976 |
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Novembre D, Pace C, Gimeno D (2018) Synthesis and characterization of wollastonite-2M by using a diatomite precursor, Mineralogical Magazine, 82, 95-110 |
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Plotinskaya O Y, Abramova V D, Groznova E O, Tessalina S G, Seltmann R, Spratt J (2018) Trace-element geochemistry of molybdenite from porphyry Cu deposits of the Birgilda-Tomino ore cluster (South Urals, Russia), Mineralogical Magazine, 82, S281-S306 |
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Kigai I N (2019) The genesis of agates and amethyst geodes, The Canadian Mineralogist, 57, 867-883 |
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Markl G, Keim M F, Bayerl R (2019) Unusual mineral diversity in hydrothermal vein-type deposit: The Clara mine, SW Germany, as a type example, The Canadian Mineralogist, 57, 427-456 |
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Jollands M C, Blanchard M, Balan E (2020) Structure and theoretical infrared spectra of OH defects in quartz, European Journal of Mineralogy, 32, 311-323 [view file] |
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Natkaniec-Nowak L, Dumańska-Słowik M, Gaweł A, Łatkiewicz A, Kowalczyk-Szpyt J, Wolska A, Milovská S, Luptáková J, Ładoń K (2020) Fire agate from the Deer Creek deposit (Arizona, USA) – new insights into structure and mineralogy, Mineralogical Magazine, 84, 343-354 [view file] |
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Götze J, Pan Y, Müller A (2021) Mineralogy and mineral chemistry of quartz: A review, Mineralogical Magazine, 85, 639-664 |
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