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Name: Jadeite RRUFF ID: R070117 Ideal Chemistry: NaAlSi2O6 Locality: Tawmaw (Tawhmaw; Taw Maw), Myitkyina-Mogaung District, Kachin State, Myanmar (Burma) Source: Michael Scott S100409 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Green massive Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis. |
Mineral Group: [ pyroxene (81) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Jadeite samples (2) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R070117.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 9.463(2)Å b: 8.606(1)Å c: 5.245(1)Å alpha: 90° beta: 107.57(1)° gamma: 90° Volume: 407.2(2)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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REFERENCES for Jadeite | |
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American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record] |
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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] |
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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] |
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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] |
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Wolfe C W (1955) Crystallography of jadeite crystals from near Cloverdale, California, American Mineralogist, 40, 248-260 [view file] |
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Prewitt C T, Burnham C W (1966) The crystal structure of jadeite, NaAlSi2O6, American Mineralogist, 51, 956-975 [view file] |
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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] |
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McBirney A, Aoki K, Bass M N (1967) Eclogites and jadeite from the Motagua fault zone, Guatemala, American Mineralogist, 52, 908-918 [view file] |
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Ringwood A E, Major A (1967) Some high-pressure transformations of geophysical significance, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2, 106-110 |
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Coleman R G, Clark J R (1968) Pyroxenes in the blueschist facies of california, American Journal of Science, 266, 43-59 [view file] |
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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] |
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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] |
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Cameron M, Papike J J (1981) Structural and chemical variations in pyroxenes, American Mineralogist, 66, 1-50 [view file] |
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Morimoto N (1988) Nomenclature of pyroxenes, Mineralogical Magazine, 52, 535-550 [view file] |
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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 |
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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] |
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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 |
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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 |
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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] |
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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] |
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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] |
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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] |
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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(Mg0.5Si0.5)Si2O6-NaAlSi2O6 system, American Mineralogist, 94, 942-949 [view file] |
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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 |
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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] |
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Tribaudino M, Mantovani L (2014) Thermal expansion in C2/c pyroxenes: a review and new high-temperature structural data for a pyroxene of composition (Na0.53Ca0.47)(Al0.53Fe0.47)Si2O6 (Jd53Hd47), Mineralogical Magazine, 78, 311-324 |
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Nespolo M, Aroyo M I (2016) The modular structure of pyroxenes, European Journal of Mineralogy, 28, 189-203 |
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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 |
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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 |
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