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Amblygonite R040067

Name: Amblygonite
RRUFF ID: R040067
Ideal Chemistry: LiAl(PO₄)F
Locality: Montebras, France
Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 4802 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Pale blue fine-grained massive, associated with wavellite
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis

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CHEMISTRY

RRUFF ID:	R040067.2
Sample Description:	Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry:	(Li_0.76Na_0.24)Al(PO₄)(F_0.80(OH)_0.20)

RAMAN SPECTRUM

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Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

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Raman Mode Analysis

BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS

RRUFF ID:

R040067

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:

R040067.1

Sample Description:

Powder

Instrument settings:

SensIR Durascope on a Nicolet Magna 860 FTIR

Resolution:

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POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R040067.1

Sample Description:

Powder, mixed with ~14 wt % wavellite

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 6.6770(6)Å b: 7.7199(5)Å c: 6.9531(4)Å
alpha: 90.752(8)° beta: 117.631(7)° gamma: 91.230(8)° Volume: 317.35(3)Å³ Crystal System: triclinic

File Type Information

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

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REFERENCES for Amblygonite
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]
Breithaupt J F A (1818) Gattung B. amblygonit, in Handbuch der Mineralogie von C. A. S. Hoffmann, Volume 4 Craz und Gerlach Freiberg 159-161 [view file]
Coiseaux D (1864) Ueber die doppeltbrechenden eigenschaften und die krytallform des amblygonits, Annalen der Physik, 199, 183-187 [view file]
Richmond W E (1940) Crystal chemistry of the phosphates, arsenates and vanadates of the type A₂XO₄(Z), American Mineralogist, 25, 441-478 [view file]
Nel H J (1946) Petalite and amblygonite from Karibib, South West Africa, American Mineralogist, 31, 51-57 [view file]
Baur W H (1959) Die Kristallstruktur des Edelamblygonits LiAlPO₄(OH,F), Acta Crystallographica, 12, 988-994
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]
Loh S E, Wise W S (1976) Synthesis and fluorine-hydroxyl exchange in the amblygonite series, The Canadian Mineralogist, 14, 357-363 [view file]
Shigley J E, Brown G E (1985) Occurance and alteration of phosphate minerals at the Stewart Pegmatite, Pala District, San Diego County, California, American Mineralogist, 70, 395-408 [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]
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]

REFERENCES for Amblygonite

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]

Breithaupt J F A (1818) Gattung B. amblygonit, in Handbuch der Mineralogie von C. A. S. Hoffmann, Volume 4 Craz und Gerlach Freiberg 159-161 [view file]

Coiseaux D (1864) Ueber die doppeltbrechenden eigenschaften und die krytallform des amblygonits, Annalen der Physik, 199, 183-187 [view file]

Richmond W E (1940) Crystal chemistry of the phosphates, arsenates and vanadates of the type A₂XO₄(Z), American Mineralogist, 25, 441-478 [view file]

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

Baur W H (1959) Die Kristallstruktur des Edelamblygonits LiAlPO₄(OH,F), Acta Crystallographica, 12, 988-994

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]

Loh S E, Wise W S (1976) Synthesis and fluorine-hydroxyl exchange in the amblygonite series, The Canadian Mineralogist, 14, 357-363 [view file]

Shigley J E, Brown G E (1985) Occurance and alteration of phosphate minerals at the Stewart Pegmatite, Pala District, San Diego County, California, American Mineralogist, 70, 395-408 [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]

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]