Important Update News
The RRUFF Project has been migrated to RRUFF.net. Please update your bookmarks immediately, if you have not done so.
The data on this website is already three years out of date, and the entire website will be taken offline before the end of the year.
We are grateful to NASA for the funding of this effort.
|   |   | Name: Amesite RRUFF ID: R070116 Ideal Chemistry: Mg2Al(AlSiO5)(OH)4 Locality: Saranovskii Mine (Saranovskoye), Saranovskaya (Sarany; Saranje) Village, Gorozavod area, Permskaya Oblast', Urais Region, Russia Source: Michael Scott S100416 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Purple thin micaceous crystals, not a standard polytype, see Wiewiora et al (Am Min 76 (1991) 647-652) Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis. | 
| Mineral Groups: [ Clay (86) ] [ serpentine (12) ] | ||
| Quick search: [ All Amesite samples (2) ] | ||
| CHEMISTRY | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|   | 
 | |||||||||
| RAMAN SPECTRUM | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 
 | ||||||||||||
| BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 
 | ||||||||||||
| POWDER DIFFRACTION | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RRUFF ID: | R070116.9 | ||||||
| Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
| Cell Refinement Output: | a: 5.296(5)Å    b: 9.17(1)Å    c: 14.37(1)Å alpha: 102.33(5)° beta: 90.51(6)° gamma: 90.01(5)° Volume: 682.8(4)Å3 Crystal System: triclinic | ||||||
| 
 
 | 
 | ||||||
| REFERENCES for Amesite | |
|---|---|
| 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] | |
| Shepard C U (1876) Order XI. Talcite. Amesine, in Catalogue of minerals found within about 75 miles of Amherst College, Ms Amherst 4-4 [view file] | |
| Steadman R, Nuttall P M (1962) The crystal structure of amesite, Acta Crystallographica, 15, 510-511 | |
| Anderson C S, Bailey S W (1981) A new cation ordering pattern in amesite-2H2, American Mineralogist, 66, 185-195 [view file] | |
| Taner M F, Laurent R (1984) Iron-rich amesite from the Lake Asbestos mine, Black Lake, Quebec, The Canadian Mineralogist, 22, 437-442 [view file] | |
| Bailey S W (1988) Structures and compositions of other trioctahedral 1:1 phyllosilicates, Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, 19, 169-188 | |
| Wiewióra A (1990) Crystallochemical classifications of phyllosilicates based on the unified system of projection of chemical composition: III. The serpentine-kaolin group, Clay Minerals, 25, 93-98 [view file] | |
| Wiewióra A, Rausell-Colom J A, García-González T (1991) The crystal structure of amesite from Mount Sobotka: A nonstandard polytype, American Mineralogist, 76, 647-652 [view file] | |
| Zheng H, Bailey S W, (1997) Refinement of an amesite-2H1 polytype from Postmasburg, South Africa, Clays and Clay Minerals, 45, 301-310 | |
| Bobos I, Noronha F, Mateus A (2018) Fe-, Fe,Mn- and Fe,Mg-chlorite: a genetic linkage to W, (Cu,Mo) mineralization in the magmatic-hydrothermal system at Borralha, northern Portugal, Mineralogical Magazine, 82, S259-S279 | |
|  |