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Graftonite R070153

Name: Graftonite
RRUFF ID: R070153
Ideal Chemistry: Fe²⁺Fe²⁺₂(PO₄)₂
Locality: Bull Moose mine, Custer, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
Source: James Shigley [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Dark brown vitreous massive
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by single crystal X-ray diffraction.

Mineral Group: [ Graftonite (2) ]

CHEMISTRY

RRUFF ID:	R070153.2
Sample Description:	Microprobe Fragment

RAMAN SPECTRUM

RRUFF ID:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

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BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS

RRUFF ID:

R070153

Wavelength:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

Instrument settings:

Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW

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	Raman Data (RAW)
	RRUFF File

POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R070153.9

Sample Description:

Single crystal, powder profile is calculated

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 8.8076(7)Å b: 11.556(2)Å c: 6.1396(7)Å
alpha: 90° beta: 99.286(7)° gamma: 90° Volume: 616.7(2)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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	DIF File
	X-ray Data (XY - RAW)
	RRUFF File

REFERENCES for Graftonite
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]
Penfield S L (1900) On graftonite, a new mineral from Grafton, New Hampshire, and its intergrowth with triphylite, American Journal of Science, 159, 20-32 [view file]
Lindberg M L (1950) Arrojadite, hühnerkobelite, and graftonite, American Mineralogist, 35, 59-76 [view file]
Calvo C (1968) The crystal structure of graftonite, American Mineralogist, 53, 742-750 [view file]
Hurlbut C S, Aristarain L F (1968) Beusite, a new mineral from Argentina, and the graftonite-beusite series, American Mineralogist, 53, 1799-1814 [view file]
Fransolet A M (1977) Intercroissances et inclusions dans les associations graftonite-sarcopside-triphylite, Bulletin de la Société Française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie, 100, 198-207 [view file]
Mattievich E and Danon J (1977) Hydrothermal synthesis and Mössbauer studies of ferrous phosphates of the homologous series Fe₃²⁺(PO₄)₂(H₂O)_n, Journal of Inorganic and Nuclear Chemistry, 39, 569-580
Warner J K, Cheetham A K, Cox D E (1995) Determination of the cation distribution in NiFe₂(PO₄)₂ using resonant X-ray and neutron powder diffraction, Journal of Applied Crystallography, 28, 494-502
Černý P, Selway J B, Ercit T S, Breaks F W, Anderson A J, Anderson S D (1998) Graftonite – beusite in granitic pegmatites of the Superior Province: a study in contrasts, The Canadian Mineralogist, 36, 367-376 [view file]
Smeds S A, Uher P, Černý P, Wise M A, Gustafsson L, Penner P (1998) Graftonite – beusite in Sweden: primary phases, products of exsolution, and distribution in zoned populations of granitic pegmatites, The Canadian Mineralogist, 36, 377-394 [view file]
Łodziński M, Sitarz M (2009) Chemical and spectroscopic characterization of some phosphate accessory minerals from pegmatites of the Sowie Góry Mts, SW Poland, Journal of Molecular Structure, 924-926, 442-447
Tait K T, Hawthorne F C, Wise M A (2013) The crystal chemistry of the graftonite-beusite minerals, The Canadian Mineralogist, 51, 653-662
Dyar M D, Jawin E R, Breves E, Marchand G, Nelms M, Lane M D, Mertzman S A, Bish D L and Bishop J L (2014) Mössbauer parameters of iron in phosphate minerals: Implications for interpretation of martian data, American Mineralogist, 99, 914-942 [view file]
Roda-Robles E, Pesquera A, García de Madinabeitia S , Gil Ibarguchi J, Nizamoff J, Simmons W, Falster A, Galliski M A (2014) On the geochemical character of primary Fe-Mn phosphates belonging to the triphylite-lithiophilite, graftonite-beusite, and triplite-zwieselite series: first results and implications for pegmatite petrogenesis, The Canadian Mineralogist, 52, 321-335 [view file]
Hålenius U, Hatert F, Pasero M, Mills S J (2017) IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) Newsletter 36. New minerals and nomenclature modifications approved in 2017, European Journal of Mineralogy, 29, 339-344 [view file]
Hawthorne F C, Pieczka A (2018) Classification of the minerals of the graftonite group, Mineralogical Magazine, 82, 1301-1306 [view file]

REFERENCES for Graftonite

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]

Penfield S L (1900) On graftonite, a new mineral from Grafton, New Hampshire, and its intergrowth with triphylite, American Journal of Science, 159, 20-32 [view file]

Lindberg M L (1950) Arrojadite, hühnerkobelite, and graftonite, American Mineralogist, 35, 59-76 [view file]

Calvo C (1968) The crystal structure of graftonite, American Mineralogist, 53, 742-750 [view file]

Hurlbut C S, Aristarain L F (1968) Beusite, a new mineral from Argentina, and the graftonite-beusite series, American Mineralogist, 53, 1799-1814 [view file]

Fransolet A M (1977) Intercroissances et inclusions dans les associations graftonite-sarcopside-triphylite, Bulletin de la Société Française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie, 100, 198-207 [view file]

Mattievich E and Danon J (1977) Hydrothermal synthesis and Mössbauer studies of ferrous phosphates of the homologous series Fe₃²⁺(PO₄)₂(H₂O)_n, Journal of Inorganic and Nuclear Chemistry, 39, 569-580

Warner J K, Cheetham A K, Cox D E (1995) Determination of the cation distribution in NiFe₂(PO₄)₂ using resonant X-ray and neutron powder diffraction, Journal of Applied Crystallography, 28, 494-502

Černý P, Selway J B, Ercit T S, Breaks F W, Anderson A J, Anderson S D (1998) Graftonite – beusite in granitic pegmatites of the Superior Province: a study in contrasts, The Canadian Mineralogist, 36, 367-376 [view file]

Smeds S A, Uher P, Černý P, Wise M A, Gustafsson L, Penner P (1998) Graftonite – beusite in Sweden: primary phases, products of exsolution, and distribution in zoned populations of granitic pegmatites, The Canadian Mineralogist, 36, 377-394 [view file]

Łodziński M, Sitarz M (2009) Chemical and spectroscopic characterization of some phosphate accessory minerals from pegmatites of the Sowie Góry Mts, SW Poland, Journal of Molecular Structure, 924-926, 442-447

Tait K T, Hawthorne F C, Wise M A (2013) The crystal chemistry of the graftonite-beusite minerals, The Canadian Mineralogist, 51, 653-662

Dyar M D, Jawin E R, Breves E, Marchand G, Nelms M, Lane M D, Mertzman S A, Bish D L and Bishop J L (2014) Mössbauer parameters of iron in phosphate minerals: Implications for interpretation of martian data, American Mineralogist, 99, 914-942 [view file]

Roda-Robles E, Pesquera A, García de Madinabeitia S , Gil Ibarguchi J, Nizamoff J, Simmons W, Falster A, Galliski M A (2014) On the geochemical character of primary Fe-Mn phosphates belonging to the triphylite-lithiophilite, graftonite-beusite, and triplite-zwieselite series: first results and implications for pegmatite petrogenesis, The Canadian Mineralogist, 52, 321-335 [view file]

Hålenius U, Hatert F, Pasero M, Mills S J (2017) IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) Newsletter 36. New minerals and nomenclature modifications approved in 2017, European Journal of Mineralogy, 29, 339-344 [view file]

Hawthorne F C, Pieczka A (2018) Classification of the minerals of the graftonite group, Mineralogical Magazine, 82, 1301-1306 [view file]