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Prosopite R100181

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Name: Prosopite
RRUFF ID: R100181
Ideal Chemistry: CaAl2F4(OH)4
Locality: Carlota mine, Pinto Creek, Gila, Arizona, USA
Source: Joe Ruiz [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Colorless granular crystals, associated with blue azurite, green elongated szenicsite (R100179) and pale green thick tabular powellite (R100180)
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction.
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RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented Raman on the primary sample
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RRUFF ID: R100181
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Sample Description: Unoriented Raman on the primary sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW
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POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R100181.9
Sample Description: Single crystal, powder profile is calculated
Cell Refinement Output: a: 6.703(2)Å    b: 11.151(2)Å    c: 7.367(1)Å
alpha: 90°    beta: 94.98(2)°    gamma: 90°   Volume: 548.6(1)Å3    Crystal System: monoclinic
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Calculated diffraction file.

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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Prosopite

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]

Scheerer T (1853) Ueber Pseudomorphosen, nebst Beiträgen zur Charakteristik eineger Arten derselben, Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 90, 315-323   [view file]

Pudovkina Z V, Pyatenko Y A (1970) About the structure of the prosopite, Ca[Al2F4(OH)4], and about some features of the fluoroaluminate crystal chemistry, Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, 190, 665-667   [view file]

Pudovkina Z V, Chernitsova N M, Pyatenko Y A (1973) Refinement of the crystalline structure of prosopite, CaAl2F4(OH)4, Journal of Structural Chemistry, 14, 345-347

Hongu H, Yoshiasa A, Teshima A, Isobe H, Sugiyama K, Arima H, Nakatsuka A, Momma K, Miyawaki R (2018) Crystal structure refinement and chemical formula of prosopite, CaAl2F4[(OH)4-xFx] x = 0.0-1.0, Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences, 113, 152-158   [view file]