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Jadeite R050220

Name: Jadeite
RRUFF ID: R050220
Ideal Chemistry: NaAlSi₂O₆
Locality: Clear Creek, San Benito County, California, USA
Source: Hatt Yoder
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Aggregate of colorless bladed crystals
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis

Mineral Group: [ pyroxene (81) ]

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CHEMISTRY

RRUFF ID:	R050220.2
Sample Description:	Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry:	Na_1.00Al_1.00(Si_0.99Al_0.01)₂O₆

RAMAN SPECTRUM

RRUFF ID:

Sample Description:

Sample is oriented and mounted onto a pin.

Pin ID:

L01047

Orientation:

Laser parallel to b* (0 1 0). Fiducial mark perpendicular to laser is parallel to c [0 0 1].

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Raman Mode Analysis

BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS

RRUFF ID:

R050220

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:

R050220.1

Instrument settings:

SensIR Durascope on a Nicolet Magna 860 FTIR

Resolution:

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POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R050220.1

Sample Description:

Powder

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 9.4257(3)Å b: 8.5684(1)Å c: 5.2255(2)Å
alpha: 90.° beta: 107.565(2)° gamma: 90.° Volume: 402.35(1)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.

File Type Information

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

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REFERENCES for Jadeite
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]
Damour A A (1863) Notice et analyse sur le jade vert. Réunion de cette matière minérale à la famille des wernerites, Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences, 56, 861-865 [view file]
Dana E S (1904) Monoclinic Section. Pyroxene, in The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Data 1837-1868, Sixth Edition John Wiley & Sons New York 352-371 [view file]
Wolfe C W (1955) Crystallography of jadeite crystals from near Cloverdale, California, American Mineralogist, 40, 248-260 [view file]
Prewitt C T, Burnham C W (1966) The crystal structure of jadeite, NaAlSi₂O₆, American Mineralogist, 51, 956-975 [view file]
Burnham C W, Clark J R, Papike J J, Prewitt C T (1967) A proposed crystallographic nomenclature for clinopyroxene structures, Zeitschrift für Mineralogie, 125, 109-119 [view file]
McBirney A, Aoki K, Bass M N (1967) Eclogites and jadeite from the Motagua fault zone, Guatemala, American Mineralogist, 52, 908-918 [view file]
Ringwood A E, Major A (1967) Some high-pressure transformations of geophysical significance, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2, 106-110
Coleman R G, Clark J R (1968) Pyroxenes in the blueschist facies of california, American Journal of Science, 266, 43-59 [view file]
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]
Cameron M, Sueno S, Prewitt C T, Papike J J (1973) High-temperature crystal chemistry of acmite, diopside, hedenbergite, jadeite, spodumene, and ureyite, American Mineralogist, 58, 594-618 [view file]
Cameron M, Papike J J (1981) Structural and chemical variations in pyroxenes, American Mineralogist, 66, 1-50 [view file]
Morimoto N (1988) Nomenclature of pyroxenes, Mineralogical Magazine, 52, 535-550 [view file]
Ballaran T B, Carpenter M A, Domeneghetti M C, Tazzoli V (1998) Structural mechanisms of solid solution and cation ordering in augite-jadeite pyroxenes: I. A macroscopic perspective, American Mineralogist, 83, 419-433
Gendron F, Smith D C, Gendron-Badou A (2002) Discovery of jadeite-jade in Guatemala confirmed by non-destructive Raman microscopy, Journal of Archaeological Science, 29, 837-851 [link]
Boffa Ballaran T, Carpenter M A (2003) Line broadening and enthalpy: Some empirical calibrations of solid solution behaviour from IR spectra, Phase Transitions, 76, 137-154
Nestola F, Ballaran T B, Liebske C, Bruno M, Tribaudino M (2006) High-pressure behaviour along the jadeite NaAlSi2O6–aegirine NaFeSi2O6 solid solution up to 10 GPa, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 33, 417-425
Nestola F, Tribaudino M, Boffa Ballaran T, Liebske C, Bruno M (2007) The crystal structure of pyroxenes along the jadeite-hedenbergite and jadeite-aegirine joins, American Mineralogist, 92, 1492-1501 [view file]
Knight K S, Price G D (2008) Powder neutron-diffraction studies of clinopyroxenes. I. The crystal structure and thermoelastic properties of jadeite between 1.5 and 270 K, The Canadian Mineralogist, 46, 1593-1622 [view file]
McCarthy A C, Downs R T, Thompson R M (2008) Compressibility trends of the clinopyroxenes, and in-situ high-pressure single-crystal X-ray diffraction study of jadeite, American Mineralogist, 93, 198-209 [view file]
Nestola F, Ballaran T B, Liebske C, Thompson R, Downs R T (2008) The effect of the hedenbergitic substitution on the compressibility of jadeite, American Mineralogist, 93, 1005-1013 [view file]
Yang H, Konzett J, Frost D J, Downs R T (2009) X-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopic study of clinopyroxenes with six-coordinated Si in the Na(Mg_0.5Si_0.5)Si₂O₆-NaAlSi₂O₆ system, American Mineralogist, 94, 942-949 [view file]
Kawai K, Tsuchiya T (2012) High-P, T phase relations in the NaAlSi₂O₆ system from first principles computation, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 39, 305-310
Posner E S, Dera P, Downs R T, Lazarz J D, Irmen P (2014) High-pressure single-crystal X-ray diffraction study of jadeite and kosmochlor, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 41, 695-707 [view file]
Tribaudino M, Mantovani L (2014) Thermal expansion in C2/c pyroxenes: a review and new high-temperature structural data for a pyroxene of composition (Na_0.53Ca_0.47)(Al_0.53Fe_0.47)Si₂O₆ (Jd₅₃Hd₄₇), Mineralogical Magazine, 78, 311-324
Nespolo M, Aroyo M I (2016) The modular structure of pyroxenes, European Journal of Mineralogy, 28, 189-203
Hao M, Pierotti C E, Tkachev S, Prakapenka V, Zhang J S (2019) The single-crystal elastic properties of the jadeite-diopside solid solution and their implications for the composition-dependent seismic properties of eclogite, American Mineralogist, 104, 1016-1021
Baziotis I, Xydous S, Papoutsa A, Hu J, Ma C, Klemme S, Berndt J, Ferrière L, Caracas R, Asimow P D (2022) Jadeite and related species in shocked meteorites: Limitations on inference of shock conditions, American Mineralogist, 107, 1868-1877

REFERENCES for Jadeite

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]

Damour A A (1863) Notice et analyse sur le jade vert. Réunion de cette matière minérale à la famille des wernerites, Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences, 56, 861-865 [view file]

Dana E S (1904) Monoclinic Section. Pyroxene, in The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Data 1837-1868, Sixth Edition John Wiley & Sons New York 352-371 [view file]

Wolfe C W (1955) Crystallography of jadeite crystals from near Cloverdale, California, American Mineralogist, 40, 248-260 [view file]

Prewitt C T, Burnham C W (1966) The crystal structure of jadeite, NaAlSi₂O₆, American Mineralogist, 51, 956-975 [view file]

Burnham C W, Clark J R, Papike J J, Prewitt C T (1967) A proposed crystallographic nomenclature for clinopyroxene structures, Zeitschrift für Mineralogie, 125, 109-119 [view file]

McBirney A, Aoki K, Bass M N (1967) Eclogites and jadeite from the Motagua fault zone, Guatemala, American Mineralogist, 52, 908-918 [view file]

Ringwood A E, Major A (1967) Some high-pressure transformations of geophysical significance, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2, 106-110

Coleman R G, Clark J R (1968) Pyroxenes in the blueschist facies of california, American Journal of Science, 266, 43-59 [view file]

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]

Cameron M, Sueno S, Prewitt C T, Papike J J (1973) High-temperature crystal chemistry of acmite, diopside, hedenbergite, jadeite, spodumene, and ureyite, American Mineralogist, 58, 594-618 [view file]

Cameron M, Papike J J (1981) Structural and chemical variations in pyroxenes, American Mineralogist, 66, 1-50 [view file]

Morimoto N (1988) Nomenclature of pyroxenes, Mineralogical Magazine, 52, 535-550 [view file]

Ballaran T B, Carpenter M A, Domeneghetti M C, Tazzoli V (1998) Structural mechanisms of solid solution and cation ordering in augite-jadeite pyroxenes: I. A macroscopic perspective, American Mineralogist, 83, 419-433

Gendron F, Smith D C, Gendron-Badou A (2002) Discovery of jadeite-jade in Guatemala confirmed by non-destructive Raman microscopy, Journal of Archaeological Science, 29, 837-851 [link]

Boffa Ballaran T, Carpenter M A (2003) Line broadening and enthalpy: Some empirical calibrations of solid solution behaviour from IR spectra, Phase Transitions, 76, 137-154

Nestola F, Ballaran T B, Liebske C, Bruno M, Tribaudino M (2006) High-pressure behaviour along the jadeite NaAlSi2O6–aegirine NaFeSi2O6 solid solution up to 10 GPa, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 33, 417-425

Nestola F, Tribaudino M, Boffa Ballaran T, Liebske C, Bruno M (2007) The crystal structure of pyroxenes along the jadeite-hedenbergite and jadeite-aegirine joins, American Mineralogist, 92, 1492-1501 [view file]

Knight K S, Price G D (2008) Powder neutron-diffraction studies of clinopyroxenes. I. The crystal structure and thermoelastic properties of jadeite between 1.5 and 270 K, The Canadian Mineralogist, 46, 1593-1622 [view file]

McCarthy A C, Downs R T, Thompson R M (2008) Compressibility trends of the clinopyroxenes, and in-situ high-pressure single-crystal X-ray diffraction study of jadeite, American Mineralogist, 93, 198-209 [view file]

Nestola F, Ballaran T B, Liebske C, Thompson R, Downs R T (2008) The effect of the hedenbergitic substitution on the compressibility of jadeite, American Mineralogist, 93, 1005-1013 [view file]

Yang H, Konzett J, Frost D J, Downs R T (2009) X-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopic study of clinopyroxenes with six-coordinated Si in the Na(Mg_0.5Si_0.5)Si₂O₆-NaAlSi₂O₆ system, American Mineralogist, 94, 942-949 [view file]

Kawai K, Tsuchiya T (2012) High-P, T phase relations in the NaAlSi₂O₆ system from first principles computation, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 39, 305-310

Posner E S, Dera P, Downs R T, Lazarz J D, Irmen P (2014) High-pressure single-crystal X-ray diffraction study of jadeite and kosmochlor, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 41, 695-707 [view file]

Tribaudino M, Mantovani L (2014) Thermal expansion in C2/c pyroxenes: a review and new high-temperature structural data for a pyroxene of composition (Na_0.53Ca_0.47)(Al_0.53Fe_0.47)Si₂O₆ (Jd₅₃Hd₄₇), Mineralogical Magazine, 78, 311-324

Nespolo M, Aroyo M I (2016) The modular structure of pyroxenes, European Journal of Mineralogy, 28, 189-203

Hao M, Pierotti C E, Tkachev S, Prakapenka V, Zhang J S (2019) The single-crystal elastic properties of the jadeite-diopside solid solution and their implications for the composition-dependent seismic properties of eclogite, American Mineralogist, 104, 1016-1021

Baziotis I, Xydous S, Papoutsa A, Hu J, Ma C, Klemme S, Berndt J, Ferrière L, Caracas R, Asimow P D (2022) Jadeite and related species in shocked meteorites: Limitations on inference of shock conditions, American Mineralogist, 107, 1868-1877