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Montebrasite R040060

Name: Montebrasite
RRUFF ID: R040060
Ideal Chemistry: LiAl(PO₄)(OH)
Locality: Oxford County, Maine, USA
Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 5573 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: White massive
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis

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CHEMISTRY

RRUFF ID:	R040060.2
Sample Description:	Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry:	LiAl(PO₄)((OH)_0.79F_0.21)

RAMAN SPECTRUM

RRUFF ID:

Sample Description:

Sample is oriented, mounted onto a pin and polished

Pin ID:

L00548

Orientation:

Laser parallel to b* (0 1 0). Fiducial mark perpendicular to laser is parallel to -c [0 0 -1].

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BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS

RRUFF ID:

R040060

Wavelength:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

Instrument settings:

Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW

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INFRARED SPECTRUM (Attenuated Total Reflectance)

RRUFF ID:

R040060.1

Instrument settings:

SensIR Durascope on a Nicolet Magna 860 FTIR

Resolution:

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POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R040060.1

Sample Description:

Powder

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 6.7105(5)Å b: 7.7179(6)Å c: 7.0047(5)Å
alpha: 91.195(6)° beta: 117.861(6)° gamma: 91.586(7)° Volume: 320.37(3)Å³ Crystal System: triclinic

File Type Information

Calculated diffraction file.

File Type Information

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

File Type Information

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

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REFERENCES for Montebrasite
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]
Des Cloizeaux A (1871) Note sur la montebrasite, Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences, 73, 306-306 [view file]
Nel H J (1946) Petalite and amblygonite from Karibib, South West Africa, American Mineralogist, 31, 51-57 [view file]
Černá I, Černý P, Ferguson R B (1972) The Tanco pegmatite at Bernic Lake, Manitoba. III. Amblygonite-montebrasite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 11, 643-659 [view file]
Groat L A, Rausepp M, Hawthorne F C, Ercit T S, Sherriff B L, Hartman J S (1990) The amblygonite-montebrasite series: Characterization by single-crystal structure refinement, infrared spectroscopy, and multinuclear MAS-NMR spectroscopy, American Mineralogist, 75, 992-1008 [view file]
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]
Rondeau B, Fritsch E, Lefevre P, Guiraud M, Fransolet A M, Lulzac Y (2006) A Raman investigation of the amblygonite—montebrasite series, The Canadian Mineralogist, 44, 1109-1117 [view file]
Dias L N, Pinheiro M V B, Moreira R L, Krambrock K, Guedes K J, Menezes L A D, Karfunkel J, Schnellrath J, Scholz R (2011) Spectroscopic characterization of transition metal impurities in natural montebrasite/amblygonite, American Mineralogist, 96, 42-52 [view file]
Simmons W B, Falster A U, Nizamoff J W, Freeman G (2019) Giant spodumene and montebrasite crystals from the Plumbago North pegmatite, Oxford County, Maine, The Canadian Mineralogist, 57, 795-797
Toledo J R, De Oliveira R, Dias L N, Chaves M L C, Karfunkel J, Scholz R, Pinheiro M V B, Krambrock K (2020) Radiation-induced defects in montebrasite: An electron paramagnetic resonance study of O^– hole and Ti³⁺ electron centers, American Mineralogist, 105, 1051-1059

REFERENCES for Montebrasite

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]

Des Cloizeaux A (1871) Note sur la montebrasite, Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences, 73, 306-306 [view file]

Nel H J (1946) Petalite and amblygonite from Karibib, South West Africa, American Mineralogist, 31, 51-57 [view file]

Černá I, Černý P, Ferguson R B (1972) The Tanco pegmatite at Bernic Lake, Manitoba. III. Amblygonite-montebrasite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 11, 643-659 [view file]

Groat L A, Rausepp M, Hawthorne F C, Ercit T S, Sherriff B L, Hartman J S (1990) The amblygonite-montebrasite series: Characterization by single-crystal structure refinement, infrared spectroscopy, and multinuclear MAS-NMR spectroscopy, American Mineralogist, 75, 992-1008 [view file]

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]

Rondeau B, Fritsch E, Lefevre P, Guiraud M, Fransolet A M, Lulzac Y (2006) A Raman investigation of the amblygonite—montebrasite series, The Canadian Mineralogist, 44, 1109-1117 [view file]

Dias L N, Pinheiro M V B, Moreira R L, Krambrock K, Guedes K J, Menezes L A D, Karfunkel J, Schnellrath J, Scholz R (2011) Spectroscopic characterization of transition metal impurities in natural montebrasite/amblygonite, American Mineralogist, 96, 42-52 [view file]

Simmons W B, Falster A U, Nizamoff J W, Freeman G (2019) Giant spodumene and montebrasite crystals from the Plumbago North pegmatite, Oxford County, Maine, The Canadian Mineralogist, 57, 795-797

Toledo J R, De Oliveira R, Dias L N, Chaves M L C, Karfunkel J, Scholz R, Pinheiro M V B, Krambrock K (2020) Radiation-induced defects in montebrasite: An electron paramagnetic resonance study of O^– hole and Ti³⁺ electron centers, American Mineralogist, 105, 1051-1059