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Sakhaite R060897

Name: Sakhaite
RRUFF ID: R060897
Ideal Chemistry: Ca₄₈Mg₁₆(BO₃)₃₂(CO₃)₁₆·2(H₂O,HCl)
Locality: Solongo, Buryatiya, Transbaikal, Russia
Source: Michael Scott S100977 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Colorless to pale brown massive
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction.

Mineral Group: [ Harkerite (2) ]

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CHEMISTRY

RRUFF ID:	R060897.2
Sample Description:	Microprobe Fragment

RAMAN SPECTRUM

RRUFF ID:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

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BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS

RRUFF ID:

R060897

Wavelength:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

Instrument settings:

Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW

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POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R060897.9

Sample Description:

Single crystal, powder profile is calculated

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 14.632(2)Å b: 14.632(2)Å c: 14.632(2)Å
alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 3132.5(7)Å³ Crystal System: cubic

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 Sakhaite
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]
Fleischer M (1966) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 51, 1815-1820 [view file]
Ostrovskaya I V, Pertsev N N, Nikitina I B (1966) Sakhaite, a new carbonate-borate of calcium and magnesium, Zapiski Vsesoyuznogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva, 95, 193-202 [view file]
Fleischer M (1969) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 54, 326-330 [view file]
Davies W O, Machin M P (1970) Isomorphous replacements in harkerite and the relation of sakhaite to harkerite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 10, 689-695 [view file]
Yakubovich O V, Egorov-Tismenko Y K, Simonov M A, Belov N V (1978) Crystal structure of natural sakhaite Ca₃Mg[BO₃]₂[CO₃]·0.36H₂O, Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, 239, 1103-1106 [view file]
Yakubovich O V, Still I M, Gavrilenko P G, Urusov V S (2005) Crystal structure of sakhaite from the Solongo deposit in connection with the crystallochemical interpretation of the sakhaite—harkerite mineral series, Crystallography Reports, 50, 194-202
Evans R J, Groat L A, Cempírek J, Škoda R, Grew E S, Bernard C (2018) The crystal chemistry of the sakhaite-harkerite solid solution, American Mineralogist, 103, 1749-1760
Miyawaki R, Hatert F, Pasero M, Mills S J (2021) IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) – Newsletter 60, European Journal of Mineralogy, 33, 203-208 [view file]

REFERENCES for Sakhaite

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]

Fleischer M (1966) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 51, 1815-1820 [view file]

Ostrovskaya I V, Pertsev N N, Nikitina I B (1966) Sakhaite, a new carbonate-borate of calcium and magnesium, Zapiski Vsesoyuznogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva, 95, 193-202 [view file]

Fleischer M (1969) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 54, 326-330 [view file]

Davies W O, Machin M P (1970) Isomorphous replacements in harkerite and the relation of sakhaite to harkerite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 10, 689-695 [view file]

Yakubovich O V, Egorov-Tismenko Y K, Simonov M A, Belov N V (1978) Crystal structure of natural sakhaite Ca₃Mg[BO₃]₂[CO₃]·0.36H₂O, Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, 239, 1103-1106 [view file]

Yakubovich O V, Still I M, Gavrilenko P G, Urusov V S (2005) Crystal structure of sakhaite from the Solongo deposit in connection with the crystallochemical interpretation of the sakhaite—harkerite mineral series, Crystallography Reports, 50, 194-202

Evans R J, Groat L A, Cempírek J, Škoda R, Grew E S, Bernard C (2018) The crystal chemistry of the sakhaite-harkerite solid solution, American Mineralogist, 103, 1749-1760

Miyawaki R, Hatert F, Pasero M, Mills S J (2021) IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) – Newsletter 60, European Journal of Mineralogy, 33, 203-208 [view file]