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Name: Grossular RRUFF ID: R100152 Ideal Chemistry: Ca3Al2(SiO4)3 Locality: Matara, Sri Lanka Source: William W. Pinch [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Pale brown cut gemstones Status: The identification of this mineral is not yet confirmed. |
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Mineral Group: [ garnet (97) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Grossular samples (21) ] |
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REFERENCES for Grossular | |
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American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record] |
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Skinner B J (1956) Physical properties of end-members of the garnet group, American Mineralogist, 41, 428-436 |
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Frankel J J (1959) Uvarovite garnet and South African jade (hydrogrossular) from the Bushveld Complex, Transvaal, American Mineralogist, 44, 565-591 [view file] |
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International Mineralogical Association (1962) International Mineralogical Association: Commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Magazine, 33, 260-263 [view file] |
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Heflik W, Żabiński W (1969) A chromian hydrogrossular from Jordanów, Lower Silesia, Poland, Mineralogical Magazine, 37, 241-243 [view file] |
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Novak G A, Gibbs G V (1971) The crystal chemistry of the silicate garnets, American Mineralogist, 56, 791-825 [view file] |
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Shimazaki H (1977) Grossular-spessartine-almandine garnets from some Japanese scheelite skarns, The Canadian Mineralogist, 15, 74-80 [view file] |
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International Mineralogical Association (1980) International Mineralogical Association: Commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Magazine, 43, 1053-1055 [view file] |
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Basso R, Della Giusta A, Zefiro L (1981) A crystal chemical study of a Ti-containing hydrogarnet, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1981, 230-236 |
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Nickel E H, Mandarino J A (1987) Procedures involving the IMA Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names and guidelines on mineral nomenclature, American Mineralogist, 72, 1031-1042 [view file] |
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Wang X, Greenwood H J (1988) An experimental study of the equilibrium: grossular + clinochlore = 3 diopside + 2 spinel + 4 H2O, The Canadian Mineralogist, 26, 269-281 [view file] |
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Hofmeister A M, Chopelas A (1991) Vibrational spectroscopy of end-member silicate garnets, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 17, 503-526 [link] |
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Pilati T, Demartin F, Gramaccioli C M (1996) Atomic displacement parameters for garnets: A lattice-dynamical evaluation, Acta Crystallographica, B52, 239-250 |
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Chmielová M, Martinec P, Weiss Z (1997) Almandine-pyrope-grossular garnets: a method for estimating their composition using X-ray powder diffraction patterns, European Journal of Mineralogy, 9, 403-409 |
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Geiger C A, Armbruster T (1997) Mn3Al2Si3O12 spessartine and Ca3Al2Si3O12 grossular garnet: Structural dynamic and thermodynamic properties, American Mineralogist, 82, 740-747 [view file] |
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Kolesov B A, Geiger C A (1998) Raman spectra of silicate garnets, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 25, 142-151 [link] |
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Milman V, Winkler B, Nobes R H, Akhmatchaya E V, Pickard C J, White J A (2000) Garnets: structure, compressibility, dynamics, and disorder, Journal of the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, 52, issue 7 22-25 |
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Arredondo E H, Rossman G R (2002) Feasibility of determining the quantitative OH content of garnets with Raman spectroscopy, American Mineralogist, 87, 307-311 [view file] |
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Shannon R D, Shannon R C, Medenbach O, Fischer R X (2002) Refractive index and dispersion of fluorides and oxides, Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data, 31, 931-970 [view file] |
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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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Oberti R, Quartieri S, Dalconi M C, Boscherini F, Iezzi G, Boiocchi M, Eeckhout S G (2006) Site preference and local geometry of Sc in garnets: Part I. Multifarious mechanisms in the pyrope-grossular join, American Mineralogist, 91, 1230-1239 [view file] |
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Teertstra D K (2006) Index-of-refraction and unit-cell constraints on cation valence and pattern of order in garnet-group minerals, The Canadian Mineralogist, 44, 341-346 [view file] |
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Moroz T, Ragozin A, Salikhov D, Belikova G, Puchkov V, Kagi H (2009) Micro-Raman spectra of ugrandite garnet, Spectrochimica Acta Part A-Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 73, 436-439 |
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Dachs E, Geiger C A, Benisek A, Grevel K-D (2012) Grossular: A crystal-chemical, calorimetric, and thermodynamic study, American Mineralogist, 97, 1299-1313 [view file] |
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Dachs E, Geiger C A, Benisek A, Grevel K D (2012) Grossular: A crystal-chemical, calorimetric, and thermodynamic study, American Mineralogist, 97, 1299-1313 [view file] |
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Antao S M (2013) Is near-endmember birefringent grossular non-cubic? New evidence from synchrotron diffraction, The Canadian Mineralogist, 51, 771-784 |
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De La Pierre M, Noël Y, Mustapha S, Meyer A, D'Arco P, Dovesi R (2013) The infrared vibrational spectrum of andradite-grossular solid solutions: A quantum mechanical simulation, American Mineralogist, 98, 966-976 |
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Geiger C A (2013) Static disorders of atoms and experimental determination of Debye temperature in pyrope: Low- and high-temperature single-crystal X-ray diffraction studyDiscussion, American Mineralogist, 98, 780-782 |
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Grew E S, Locock A J, Mills S J, Galuskina I O, Galuskin E V, Hålenius U (2013) Nomenclature of the garnet supergroup, American Mineralogist, 98, 785-811 [view file] |
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Nakatsuka A, Shimokawa M, Nakayama N, Ohtaka O, Arima H, Okube M, Yoshiasa A (2013) Static disorders of atoms and experimental determination of Debye temperature in pyrope: Low- and high-temperature single-crystal X-ray diffraction studyReply, American Mineralogist, 98, 783-784 |
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Feneyrol J, Giuliani G, Ohnenstetter D, Rondeau B, Fritsch E, Fallick A E, Ichang'i D, Omito E, Rakotondrazafy M, Ranatsenho M, Lallier F (2014) New typology and origin of tsavorite based on trace-element chemistry, European Journal of Mineralogy, 26, 293-308 |
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Du W, Clark S M, Walker D (2015) Thermo-compression of pyrope-grossular garnet solid solutions: Non-linear compositional dependence, American Mineralogist, 100, 215-222 |
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Lacivita V, Mahmoud A, Erba A, D'Arco P, Mustapha S (2015) Hydrogrossular, Ca3Al2(SiO4)3-x(H4O4)x: An ab initio investigation of its structural and energetic properties, American Mineralogist, 100, 2637-2649 |
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Du W, Clark S M, Walker D (2016) Excess mixing volume, microstrain, and stability of pyrope-grossular garnets, American Mineralogist, 101, 193-204 |
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Palke A C, Geiger C A (2016) Trivalent transition-metal cations and local structure in pyrope- and grossular-rich solid solutions investigated by 27Al and 29Si MAS NMR spectroscopy, 28, 179-187 |
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Milani S, Angel R J, Scandolo L, Mazzucchelli M L, Ballaran T B, Klemme S, Domeneghetti M C, Miletich R, Scheidl K S, Derzsi M, Tokár K, Prencipe M, Alvaro M, Nestola F (2017) Thermo-elastic behavior of grossular garnet at high pressures and temperatures, American Mineralogist, 102, 851-859 |
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Caporuscio F A, Oberti R, Smyth J R (2019) X-site control on rare earth elements in eclogitic garnets an XRD study, European Journal of Mineralogy, 31, 453-463 |
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Gajda R, Stachowicz M, Makal A, Sutuła S, Parafiniuk J, Fertey P, Woźniak K (2020) Experimental charge density of grossular under pressure a feasibility study, IUCrJ, 7, 383-392 |
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