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Jadeite R070117

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) ]

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CHEMISTRY

RRUFF ID:	R070117.2
Sample Description:	Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry:	Na_1.00(Al_0.86Cr_0.09Fe³⁺_0.05)_Σ=1Si_2.00O₆
Microprobe Data File:	[ Download Excel File ]

RAMAN SPECTRUM

RRUFF ID:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

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Raman Mode Analysis

BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS

RRUFF ID:

R070117

Wavelength:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

Instrument settings:

Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 10% of 150mW

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POWDER DIFFRACTION

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

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 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