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Nepheline R060581

Name: Nepheline
RRUFF ID: R060581
Ideal Chemistry: Na₃K(Al₄Si₄O₁₆)
Locality: Capo di Bova, Via Appia Antica, Rome, Italy
Source: Michael Scott S100810 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Colorless hexagonal prisms
Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis.

Mineral Groups: [ Tridymite (7) ] [ Nepheline (6) ]

Quick search: [ All Nepheline samples (3) ]

CHEMISTRY

RRUFF ID:	R060581.2
Sample Description:	Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry:	(Na_0.66K_0.27Ca_0.04)Al_0.98Si_1.01O₄
Microprobe Data File:	[ Download Excel File ]

RAMAN SPECTRUM

RRUFF ID:

Sample Description:

Sample is oriented and mounted on a pin.

Pin ID:

M01882

Orientation:

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

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BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS

RRUFF ID:

R060581

Wavelength:

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:

R060581.9

Sample Description:

Single crystal, powder profile is calculated

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 10.06(1)Å b: 10.06(1)Å c: 8.426(6)Å
alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 120° Volume: 738(3)Å³ Crystal System: hexagonal

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 Nepheline
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]
Haüy R J (1801) Népheline, Traité de Minéralogie, 3, 186-190 [view file]
Rammelsberg C (1877) Ueber Nephelin, Monacit und Silberwismuthglanz, Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft, 29, 77-81 [view file]
Lorenzen J (1882) On some minerals from the sodalite-syenite in the Juliane-haab district, south Greenland, Mineralogical Magazine, 5, 49-70 [view file]
Bowen N L (1917) The sodium-potassium nephelites, American Journal of Science, 43, 115-132 [view file]
Bannister F A, Hey M H (1931) A chemical, optical, and X-ray study of nepheline and kaliophilite, Mineralogical Magazine, 22, 569-608 [view file]
Barrer R M, White E A D (1952) The hydrothermal chemitry of silicates Part II.* Synthetic crystalline sodium aluminosilicates, Journal of the Chemical Society, 1952, 1561-1571 [view file]
Smith J V, Tuttle O F (1957) The nepheline-kalsilite system: I. X-ray data for the crystalline phases, American Journal of Science, 255, 282-305
Chao G Y, Harris D C, Hounslow A W, Mandarino J A, Perrault G (1967) Minerals from the nepheline syenite Mont St. Hilaire, Quebec, The Canadian Mineralogist, 9, 109-123 [view file]
Moyd L (1967) Abstract of paper presented at the twelfth annual meeting: Large nepheline and biotite crystals in calcite veins near Bancroft, Ontario, The Canadian Mineralogist, 9, 302-303 [view file]
Rimsaite J (1967) Abstract of paper presented at the twelfth annual meeting: Studies of micas from uncommon rocks. I. Micas from nepheline syenite, Blue Mountain, Ontario, and from carbonatite, Oka, Quebec, The Canadian Mineralogist, 9, 304-304 [view file]
Davidson A (1970) Nepheline-K-feldspar intergrowth from Kaminak Lake, Northwest territories, The Canadian Mineralogist, 10, 191-206 [view file]
Sood M K, Platt R G, Edgar A D (1970) Phase relations in portions of the system diopside-nepheline-kalsilite-silica and their importance in the genesis of alkaline rocks, The Canadian Mineralogist, 10, 380-394 [view file]
Simmons W B, Peacor D R (1972) Refinement of the crystal structure of a volcanic nepheline, American Mineralogist, 57, 1711-1719 [view file]
Mitchell R H, Platt R G (1979) Nepheline – plagioclase intergrowth of metasomatic origin from the Coldwell complex, Ontario, The Canadian Mineralogist, 17, 537-540 [view file]
Matson D W, Sharma S K, Philpotts J A (1986) Raman-spectra of some tectosilicates and of glasses along the orthoclase-anorthite and nepheline-anorthite joins, American Mineralogist, 71, 694-704 [view file]
Papike J J (1988) Chemistry of the rock-forming silicates: Multiple-chain, sheet, and framework structures, Reviews of Geophysics, 26, 407-444 [view file]
Elías-Herrera M, Rubinovich-Kogan R, Cruz R L S, Sánchez-Zavala J L (1991) Nepheline-rich foidolites and rare-earth mineralization in the El Picacho Tertiary intrusive complex, Sierra de Tamaulipas, northeastern Mexico, The Canadian Mineralogist, 29, 319-336 [view file]
Pinckston R D, Smith D G W (1994) Mineralogy of the Lake zone, Thor Lake rare-metals deposit, N.W.T., Canada, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 32, 516-532
Kahlenberg V, Bohm H (1998) Crystal structure of hexagonal trinepheline - A new synthetic NaAlSiO₄ modification, American Mineralogist, 83, 631-637 [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]
Hassan I, Antao S M, Hersi A A M (2003) Single-crystal XRD, TEM and thermal studies of the satellite reflections in nepheline, The Canadian Mineralogist, 41, 759-783 [view file]
Tait K T, Sokolova E, Hawthorne F C, Khomyakov A P (2003) The crystal chemistry of nepheline, The Canadian Mineralogist, 41, 61-70 [view file]
Gatta G D, Angel R J (2007) Elastic behavior and pressure-induced structural evolution of nepheline: implications for the nature of the modulated superstructure, American Mineralogist, 92, 1446-1455 [view file]
Angel R J, Gatta G C, Boffa Ballaran T, Carpenter M A (2008) The mechanism of coupling in the modulated structure of nepheline, The Canadian Mineralogist, 46, 1465-1476 [view file]
Vulic P, Kahlenberg V, Konzett J (2008) On the existence of a Na-deficient monoclinic trinepheline with composition Na_7.85Al_7.85Si_8.15O₃₂, American Mineralogist, 93, 1072-1079 [view file]
Antao S M, Hassan I (2010) Nepheline: structure of three samples from the Bancroft area, Ontario, obtained using synchrotron high-resolution powder x-ray diffraction, The Canadian Mineralogist, 48, 69-80 [view file]
Zaitsev V A, Kogarko L N, Senin V G (2013) Phase equilibria in the system lamprophyllite-nepheline, Geochemistry International, 51, 889-895 [view file]
Hålenius U, Hatert F, Pasero M, Mills S J (2018) IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) Newsletter 42. New minerals and nomenclature modifications approved in 2018, Mineralogical Magazine, 82, 445-451 [view file]
Hamada M, Akasaka M, Ohfuji H (2019) Crystal chemistry of K-rich nepheline in nephelinite from Hamada, Shimane Prefecture, Japan, Mineralogical Magazine, 83, 239-247
Henderson, C M B (2020) Nepheline solid solution compositions: stoichiometry revisited, reviewed, clarified and rationalised, Mineralogical Magazine, 84, 813-838 [view file]

REFERENCES for Nepheline

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]

Haüy R J (1801) Népheline, Traité de Minéralogie, 3, 186-190 [view file]

Rammelsberg C (1877) Ueber Nephelin, Monacit und Silberwismuthglanz, Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft, 29, 77-81 [view file]

Lorenzen J (1882) On some minerals from the sodalite-syenite in the Juliane-haab district, south Greenland, Mineralogical Magazine, 5, 49-70 [view file]

Bowen N L (1917) The sodium-potassium nephelites, American Journal of Science, 43, 115-132 [view file]

Bannister F A, Hey M H (1931) A chemical, optical, and X-ray study of nepheline and kaliophilite, Mineralogical Magazine, 22, 569-608 [view file]

Barrer R M, White E A D (1952) The hydrothermal chemitry of silicates Part II.* Synthetic crystalline sodium aluminosilicates, Journal of the Chemical Society, 1952, 1561-1571 [view file]

Smith J V, Tuttle O F (1957) The nepheline-kalsilite system: I. X-ray data for the crystalline phases, American Journal of Science, 255, 282-305

Chao G Y, Harris D C, Hounslow A W, Mandarino J A, Perrault G (1967) Minerals from the nepheline syenite Mont St. Hilaire, Quebec, The Canadian Mineralogist, 9, 109-123 [view file]

Moyd L (1967) Abstract of paper presented at the twelfth annual meeting: Large nepheline and biotite crystals in calcite veins near Bancroft, Ontario, The Canadian Mineralogist, 9, 302-303 [view file]

Rimsaite J (1967) Abstract of paper presented at the twelfth annual meeting: Studies of micas from uncommon rocks. I. Micas from nepheline syenite, Blue Mountain, Ontario, and from carbonatite, Oka, Quebec, The Canadian Mineralogist, 9, 304-304 [view file]

Davidson A (1970) Nepheline-K-feldspar intergrowth from Kaminak Lake, Northwest territories, The Canadian Mineralogist, 10, 191-206 [view file]

Sood M K, Platt R G, Edgar A D (1970) Phase relations in portions of the system diopside-nepheline-kalsilite-silica and their importance in the genesis of alkaline rocks, The Canadian Mineralogist, 10, 380-394 [view file]

Simmons W B, Peacor D R (1972) Refinement of the crystal structure of a volcanic nepheline, American Mineralogist, 57, 1711-1719 [view file]

Mitchell R H, Platt R G (1979) Nepheline – plagioclase intergrowth of metasomatic origin from the Coldwell complex, Ontario, The Canadian Mineralogist, 17, 537-540 [view file]

Matson D W, Sharma S K, Philpotts J A (1986) Raman-spectra of some tectosilicates and of glasses along the orthoclase-anorthite and nepheline-anorthite joins, American Mineralogist, 71, 694-704 [view file]

Papike J J (1988) Chemistry of the rock-forming silicates: Multiple-chain, sheet, and framework structures, Reviews of Geophysics, 26, 407-444 [view file]

Elías-Herrera M, Rubinovich-Kogan R, Cruz R L S, Sánchez-Zavala J L (1991) Nepheline-rich foidolites and rare-earth mineralization in the El Picacho Tertiary intrusive complex, Sierra de Tamaulipas, northeastern Mexico, The Canadian Mineralogist, 29, 319-336 [view file]

Pinckston R D, Smith D G W (1994) Mineralogy of the Lake zone, Thor Lake rare-metals deposit, N.W.T., Canada, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 32, 516-532

Kahlenberg V, Bohm H (1998) Crystal structure of hexagonal trinepheline - A new synthetic NaAlSiO₄ modification, American Mineralogist, 83, 631-637 [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]

Hassan I, Antao S M, Hersi A A M (2003) Single-crystal XRD, TEM and thermal studies of the satellite reflections in nepheline, The Canadian Mineralogist, 41, 759-783 [view file]

Tait K T, Sokolova E, Hawthorne F C, Khomyakov A P (2003) The crystal chemistry of nepheline, The Canadian Mineralogist, 41, 61-70 [view file]

Gatta G D, Angel R J (2007) Elastic behavior and pressure-induced structural evolution of nepheline: implications for the nature of the modulated superstructure, American Mineralogist, 92, 1446-1455 [view file]

Angel R J, Gatta G C, Boffa Ballaran T, Carpenter M A (2008) The mechanism of coupling in the modulated structure of nepheline, The Canadian Mineralogist, 46, 1465-1476 [view file]

Vulic P, Kahlenberg V, Konzett J (2008) On the existence of a Na-deficient monoclinic trinepheline with composition Na_7.85Al_7.85Si_8.15O₃₂, American Mineralogist, 93, 1072-1079 [view file]

Antao S M, Hassan I (2010) Nepheline: structure of three samples from the Bancroft area, Ontario, obtained using synchrotron high-resolution powder x-ray diffraction, The Canadian Mineralogist, 48, 69-80 [view file]

Zaitsev V A, Kogarko L N, Senin V G (2013) Phase equilibria in the system lamprophyllite-nepheline, Geochemistry International, 51, 889-895 [view file]

Hålenius U, Hatert F, Pasero M, Mills S J (2018) IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) Newsletter 42. New minerals and nomenclature modifications approved in 2018, Mineralogical Magazine, 82, 445-451 [view file]

Hamada M, Akasaka M, Ohfuji H (2019) Crystal chemistry of K-rich nepheline in nephelinite from Hamada, Shimane Prefecture, Japan, Mineralogical Magazine, 83, 239-247

Henderson, C M B (2020) Nepheline solid solution compositions: stoichiometry revisited, reviewed, clarified and rationalised, Mineralogical Magazine, 84, 813-838 [view file]