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The data on this website is already three years out of date, and the entire website will be taken offline before the end of the year.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: Guilleminite RRUFF ID: R090007 Ideal Chemistry: Ba(UO2)3(Se4+O3)2O2·3H2O Locality: Musonoi mine, Kolwezi, Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo Source: William W. Pinch Owner: RRUFF Description: Yellow transparent thin tabular crystals removed from the structure type specimen of Cooper & Hawthorne (1995) study Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. | 
| Mineral Group: [ Guilleminite (3) ] | ||
| RAMAN SPECTRUM | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 
 | ||||||||||||
| BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 
 | ||||||||||||
| POWDER DIFFRACTION | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RRUFF ID: | R090007.9 | ||||||
| Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
| Cell Refinement Output: | a: 7.084(2)Å    b: 7.296(4)Å    c: 16.887(9)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 873(1)Å3 Crystal System: orthorhombic | ||||||
| 
 
 | 
 | ||||||
| REFERENCES for Guilleminite | |
|---|---|
| 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] | |
| Fleischer M (1965) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 50, 2096-2111 [view file] | |
| Pierrot R, Toussaint J, Verbeek T (1965) La guilleminite, une nouvelle espèce minérale, Bulletin de la Société Française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie, 88, 132-135 [view file] | |
| Cooper M A, Hawthorne F C (1995) The crystal structure of guilleminite, a hydrated BaUSe sheet structure, The Canadian Mineralogist, 33, 1103-1109 [view file] | |
| Jambor J L, Pertsev N N, Roberts A C (1996) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 81, 766-770 [view file] | |
| Cooper M A, Hawthorne F C (2001) Structure topology and hydrogen bonding in marthozite, Cu2+[(UO2)3(SeO3)2O2](H2O)8, a comparison with guilleminite, Ba[(UO2)3(SeO3)2O2](H2O)3, The Canadian Mineralogist, 39, 797-807 [view file] | |
|  |