Important Update News
The RRUFF Project (rruff.info) is being updated to improve its interface and content. The beta version of the update is accessible to the public at RRUFF.net. New data is only being added to the beta site. Please note that it is in development, and some components are not functional.
We are grateful to NASA for the funding of this effort.
![]() |
![]() |
Name: Witherite RRUFF ID: R050267 Ideal Chemistry: Ba(CO3) Locality: Fallowfields mine, Alston Moor, England Source: Marcus Origlieri Owner: RRUFF Description: Colorless granular aggregate Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis |
Mineral Group: [ Aragonite (18) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Witherite samples (3) ] |
CHEMISTRY | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() |
|
RAMAN SPECTRUM | ||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS | ||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
INFRARED SPECTRUM (Attenuated Total Reflectance) | |||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
POWDER DIFFRACTION | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
RRUFF ID: | R050267.1 | |||||||
Sample Description: | Powder | |||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 5.3083(8)Å b: 8.8828(5)Å c: 6.4165(7)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 302.55(3)Å3 Crystal System: orthorhombic |
|||||||
|
|
REFERENCES for Witherite | |
---|---|
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] |
|
Withering W, Kirwan R (1784) Experiments and observations on the terra ponderosa, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 74, 293-311 [view file] |
|
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] |
|
Klaproth M H (1797) Noch einige Erfahrungen über Witherit und Strontianit, Beiträge zur Chemischen Kenntniss der Mineralkörper, 2, 84-91 [view file] |
|
Zachariasen W H (1928) Untersuchungen über die Kristallstruktur von Sesquioxyden und Verbindungen ABO3, Skrifter Utgitt av Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi i Oslo, 1, 1-165 [view file] |
|
De Villiers J P R (1971) Crystal structures of aragonite, strontianite, and witherite, American Mineralogist, 56, 758-772 [view file] |
|
Blount C (1974) Synthesis of barite, celestite, anglesite, witherite, and strontianite from aqueous solutions, American Mineralogist, 59, 1209-1219 [view file] |
|
Chamberlain S C, Dossert W P, Siegel D I (1986) A new paragenesis and new localities for witherite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 24, 79-90 [view file] |
|
Cloots R (1991) Raman spectrum of carbonates MIICO3 in the 1100-1000 cm-1 region: observation of the v1 mode of the isotopic (C16O218O)2- ion, Spectrochimica Acta Part A-Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 47, 1745-1750 |
|
Antao S M, Hassan I (2007) BaCO3: high-temperature crystal structures and the Pmcn R3m phase transition at 811°C, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 34, 573-580 |
|
Antao S M, Hassan I (2009) The orthorhombic structure of CaCO3, SrCO3, PbCO3 and BaCO3: Linear structural trends, The Canadian Mineralogist, 47, 1245-1255 [view file] |
|
Buzgar N, Apopei A I (2009) The Raman study of certain carbonates, Analele Stiintifice Ale Universitatii, Al. I. Cuza Iasi Geologie, 55, 97-112 [view file] |
|
Ye Y, Smyth J R, Boni P (2012) Crystal structure and thermal expansion of aragonite-group carbonates by single-crystal X-ray diffraction, American Mineralogist, 97, 707-712 [view file] |
|
Nie S, Liu Y, Liu Q, Wang M, Wang H (2017) Phase transitions and thermal expansion of BaCO3 and SrCO3 up to 1413 K, European Journal of Mineralogy, 29, 433-443 |
|
Lindner M, Jordan G (2018) On the growth of witherite and its relacement by the Mg-bearing double carbonate norsethite: Implications for the dolomite problem, American Mineralogist, 103, 252-259 |
|
Li K, Liu X, Guo R, Wu C, Peng B, Li Z, Duan X, Zhou Y, Pei C (2020) Non-isodiametric growth and confinement effect in the mineralisation of witherite, Mineralogical Magazine, 84, 524-532 |
|
|