Benstonite R050484

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Name: Benstonite
RRUFF ID: R050484
Ideal Chemistry: Ba6Ca6Mg(CO3)13
Locality: Minerva #1 mine, Cave-in-Rock, Hardin County, Illinois, USA
Source: California Institute of Technology W-40011
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Colorless fragment
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis
CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R050484.2
Sample Description: Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry: lighter phase: (Ba5.77Sr0.23)Σ=6Ca6.00(Mg0.90Ca0.10)Σ=1(CO3)13 ; darker phase: (Ba5.75Sr0.25)Σ=6Ca6.00(Mg0.86Ca0.14)Σ=1(CO3)13 ; C estimated by difference
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RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
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RRUFF ID: R050484
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW
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INFRARED SPECTRUM (Attenuated Total Reflectance) 
RRUFF ID: R050484.1
Sample Description: Powder
Instrument settings: SensIR Durascope on a Nicolet Magna 860 FTIR
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Sample Description: Powder
Instrument settings: PIKE GladiATR - Far-IR on a Nicolet Magna 860 FTIR
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POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R050484.1
Sample Description: Powder
Cell Refinement Output: a: 18.2712(7)Å    b: 18.2712(7)Å    c: 8.700(1)Å
alpha: 90.°    beta: 90.°    gamma: 120.°   Volume: 2515.3(4)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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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Benstonite

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 (1961) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 46, 1513-1520   [view file]

Lippmann F (1961) Benstonit, Ca7Ba6(CO3)13, ein neues Mineral, Naturwissenschaften, 16, 550-551

Lippmann F (1962) Benstonite, Ca7Ba6(CO3)13, a new mineral from the barite deposit in Hot Spring County, Arkansas, American Mineralogist, 47, 585-598   [view file]

Fleischer M (1963) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 48, 433-437   [view file]

International Mineralogical Association (1967) Commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Magazine, 36, 131-136   [view file]

Welin E (1968) Notes on the mineralogy of Sweden 6. X-ray powder data for minerals from Långban and the related mineral deposits of Central Sweden, Arkiv för Mineralogi och Geologi, 4, 499-541

Effenberger H (1979) Kristallstruktur und chemische formel des benstonits, Ba6Ca6Mg(CO3)13, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Abhandlungen, 136, 326-337

Konev A A, Kartashev P M, Koneva A A, Ushchapovskaya Z F, Nartova N V (2004) Mg-deficient strontium benstonite from the ore occurrence Biraya (Siberia), Zapiski Vserossijskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva, 133, issue 6 65-73   [view file]