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Austinite R060703

Name: Austinite
RRUFF ID: R060703
Ideal Chemistry: CaZn(AsO₄)(OH)
Locality: Gold Hill mine, Tooele County, Utah, USA
Source: Bob Jenkins [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Radial sprays of colorless bladed crystals, associated with adamite
Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis.

Mineral Group: [ Adelite (19) ]

CHEMISTRY

RRUFF ID:	R060703.2
Sample Description:	Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry:	Ca_1.00Zn_1.00(As_1.00O₄)(OH) ; = darker phase. The lighter phase is adamite Zn_2.00(As_1.00O₄)(OH)
Microprobe Data File:	[ Download Excel File ]

RAMAN SPECTRUM

RRUFF ID:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

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BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS

RRUFF ID:

R060703

Wavelength:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

Instrument settings:

Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW

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POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R060703.9

Sample Description:

Single crystal, powder profile is calculated

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 7.501(1)Å b: 9.028(2)Å c: 5.923(1)Å
alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 401.1(1)Å³ Crystal System: orthorhombic

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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REFERENCES for Austinite
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]
Staples L W (1935) Austinite, a new arsenate mineral, from Gold Hill, Utah, American Mineralogist, 20, 112-119 [view file]
Richmond W E (1940) Crystal chemistry of the phosphates, arsenates and vanadates of the type A₂XO₄(Z), American Mineralogist, 25, 441-478 [view file]
Fleischer M (1945) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 30, 548-550 [view file]
Sumin de Portilla V I (1974) Infrared spectroscopic investigation of the structure of some natural arsenates and the nature of H-bonds in their structures, The Canadian Mineralogist, 12, 262-268 [view file]
Jambor J L, Owens D R, Dutrizac J E (1980) Solid solution in the adelite group of arsenates, The Canadian Mineralogist, 18, 191-195 [view file]
Giuseppetti G, Tadini C (1988) The crystal structure of austinite, CaZn(AsO₄)(OH), from Kamareza, Laurion (Greece), Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1988, 159-166
Clark L A, Pluth J J, Steele I, Smith J V, Sutton S R (1997) Crystal structure of austinite, CaZn(AsO₄)OH, Mineralogical Magazine, 61, 677-683 [view file]
Martens W, Frost R L, Williams P A (2003) Molecular structure of the adelite group of minerals - a Raman spectroscopic study, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 34, 104-111
Mauro D, Biagioni C, Sejkora J, Dolníček Z (2023) Occurrence and crystal chemistry of austinite, conichalcite and zincolivenite from the Peloritani Mountains, northeastern Sicily, Italy, Mineralogical Magazine, 87, 659-669

REFERENCES for Austinite

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]

Staples L W (1935) Austinite, a new arsenate mineral, from Gold Hill, Utah, American Mineralogist, 20, 112-119 [view file]

Richmond W E (1940) Crystal chemistry of the phosphates, arsenates and vanadates of the type A₂XO₄(Z), American Mineralogist, 25, 441-478 [view file]

Fleischer M (1945) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 30, 548-550 [view file]

Sumin de Portilla V I (1974) Infrared spectroscopic investigation of the structure of some natural arsenates and the nature of H-bonds in their structures, The Canadian Mineralogist, 12, 262-268 [view file]

Jambor J L, Owens D R, Dutrizac J E (1980) Solid solution in the adelite group of arsenates, The Canadian Mineralogist, 18, 191-195 [view file]

Giuseppetti G, Tadini C (1988) The crystal structure of austinite, CaZn(AsO₄)(OH), from Kamareza, Laurion (Greece), Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1988, 159-166

Clark L A, Pluth J J, Steele I, Smith J V, Sutton S R (1997) Crystal structure of austinite, CaZn(AsO₄)OH, Mineralogical Magazine, 61, 677-683 [view file]

Martens W, Frost R L, Williams P A (2003) Molecular structure of the adelite group of minerals - a Raman spectroscopic study, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 34, 104-111

Mauro D, Biagioni C, Sejkora J, Dolníček Z (2023) Occurrence and crystal chemistry of austinite, conichalcite and zincolivenite from the Peloritani Mountains, northeastern Sicily, Italy, Mineralogical Magazine, 87, 659-669