Fluor-elbaite R130035
Name: Fluor-elbaite
RRUFF ID: R130035
Ideal Chemistry: Na(Li1.5Al1.5)Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3F
Locality: Aqueana pegmatite, Aracuai, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Source: William W. Pinch [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Green prismatic crystal; holotype specimen
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by single crystal X-ray diffraction.
Mineral Group: [ tourmaline (49) ]
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
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RRUFF ID: R130035
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
Instrument settings: Almega 532nm @ 100% of 150mW
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POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R130035.9
Sample Description: Single crystal, powder profile is calculated
Cell Refinement Output: a: 15.909(1)Å    b: 15.909(1)Å    c: 7.1254(8)Å
alpha: 90°    beta: 90°    gamma: 120°   Volume: 1561.8(2)Å3    Crystal System: hexagonal
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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Fluor-elbaite

American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record]

Grice J D, Ercit T S (1993) Ordering of Fe and Mg in the tourmaline crystal structure: The correct formula, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Abhandlungen, 165, 245-266   [view file]

Burns P C, MacDonald D J, Hawthorne F C (1994) The crystal chemistry of manganese-bearing elbaite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 32, 31-41   [view file]

Cámara F, Ottolini L, Hawthorne F C (2002) Crystal chemistry of three tourmalines by SREF, EMPA and SIMS, American Mineralogist, 87, 1437-1442   [view file]

Henry D J, Novák M, Hawthorne F C, Ertl A, Dutrow B L, Uher P, Pezzotta F (2011) Nomenclature of the tourmaline-supergroup minerals, American Mineralogist, 96, 895-913   [view file]

Williams P A, Hatert F, Pasero M, Mills S J (2011) IMA Commission on new minerals, nomenclature and classification (CNMNC) Newsletter 11. New minerals and nomenclature modifications approved in 2011, Mineralogical Magazine, 75, 2887-2893   [view file]

Ertl A, Schuster R, Hughes J M, Ludwig T, Meyer H-P, Finger F, Dyar M D, Ruschel K, Rossman G R, Klötzli U, Brandstätter F, Lengauer C L, Tillmanns E (2012) Li-bearing tourmalines in Variscan granitic pegmatites from the Moldanubian nappes, Lower Austria, European Journal of Mineralogy, 24, 695-715

Bosi F, Andreozzi G B, Skogby H, Lussier A J, Abdu Y, Hawthorne F C (2013) Fluor-elbaite, Na(Li1.5Al1.5)Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3F, a new mineral species of the tourmaline supergroup, American Mineralogist, 98, 297-303   [view file]

Kolitsch U, Andresen P, Husdal T A, Ertl A, Haugen A, Ellingsen H V, Larsen A O (2013) Tourmaline-group minerals from Norway, part II: Occurrences of luinaite-(OH) in Tvedalen, Larvik and Porsgrunn, and fluor-liddicoatite, fluor-elbaite and fluor-schorl at Ågskardet, Nordland, Norsk Bergverksmuseum Skrift, 50, 23-41

Bosi F (2018) Tourmaline crystal chemistry, American Mineralogist, 103, 298-306   [view file]

Grew E S, Bosi F, Ros L, Kristiansson P, Gunter M E (2018) Fluor-elbaite, lepidolite and Ta-Nb oxides from a pegmatite of the 3000 Ma Sinceni Pluton, Swaziland: evidence for lithium-cesium-tantalum (LCT) pegmatites in the Mesoarchean, European Journal of Mineralogy, 30, 205-218

Pieczka A, Ertl A, Gołębiowska B, Jeleń P, Kotowski J, Nejbert K, Stachowicz M, Giester G. (2020) Crystal structure and Raman spectroscopic studies of OH stretching vibrations in Zn-rich fluor-elbaite, American Mineralogist, 105, 1622-1630   [view file]

Hovis G L, Tribaudino M, Altomare C, Bosi F (2023) Thermal expansion of minerals in the tourmaline supergroup, American Mineralogist, 108, 1053-1063