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Magnesite R050676

Name: Magnesite
RRUFF ID: R050676
Ideal Chemistry: Mg(CO₃)
Locality: Tyrol, Austria
Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 3874 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Brown rhombohedral crystals
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis

Mineral Group: [ Calcite (36) ]

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CHEMISTRY

RRUFF ID:	R050676.2
Sample Description:	Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry:	(Mg_0.87Fe²⁺_0.12Ca_0.01)CO₃; trace amounts of Mn and Cd; CO₂ estimated by difference
Microprobe Data File:	[ Download Excel File ]

RAMAN SPECTRUM

RRUFF ID:

Sample Description:

Sample is oriented, mounted on a pin, and polished.

Pin ID:

M01410

Orientation:

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

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Raman Mode Analysis

BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS

RRUFF ID:

R050676

Wavelength:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

Instrument settings:

Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW

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INFRARED SPECTRUM (Attenuated Total Reflectance)

RRUFF ID:

R050676.1

Sample Description:

Powder

Instrument settings:

SensIR Durascope on a Nicolet Magna 860 FTIR

Resolution:

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POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R050676.1

Sample Description:

Powder

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 4.64154(8)Å b: 4.64154(8)Å c: 15.0710(4)Å
alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 120° Volume: 281.19(1)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.

File Type Information

Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Magnesite
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]
Karsten D L G (1808) Erd-und Steinarten, Magnesit, in Mineralogische Tabellen 2nd ed. Berlin 48-48 [view file]
Goldsmith J R, Graf D L (1958) Relation between lattice constants and compositions of the Ca-Mg carbonates, American Mineralogist, 43, 84-101 [view file]
Graf D L (1961) Crystallographic tables for the rhombohedral carbonates, American Mineralogist, 46, 1283-1316 [view file]
International Mineralogical Association (1962) International Mineralogical Association: Commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Magazine, 33, 260-263 [view file]
Rutt H N, Nicola J H (1974) Raman spectra of carbonates of calcite structure, Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics, 7, 4522-4528
Whittaker E J W, Middleton A P (1979) The intergrowth of fibrous brucite and fibrous magnesite with chrysotile, The Canadian Mineralogist, 17, 699-702 [view file]
International Mineralogical Association (1980) International Mineralogical Association: Commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Magazine, 43, 1053-1055 [view file]
Effenberger H, Mereiter K, Zemann J (1981) Crystal structure refinements of magnesite, calcite, rhodochrosite, siderite, smithonite, and dolomite, with discussion of some aspects of the stereochemistry of calcite type carbonates, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 156, 233-243 [view file]
Cloots R (1991) Raman spectrum of carbonates M^IICO₃ in the 1100-1000 cm^-1 region: observation of the v₁ mode of the isotopic (C¹⁶O₂¹⁸O)^2- ion, Spectrochimica Acta Part A-Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 47, 1745-1750
Ford F D, Skippen G B (1997) Petrology of the Flinton Creek metaperidotites: enstatite - magnesite and anthophyllite - magnesite assemblages from the Grenville Province, The Canadian Mineralogist, 35, 1221-1236 [view file]
Ross N L (1997) The equation of state and high-pressure behavior of magnesite, American Mineralogist, 82, 682–688 [view file]
Zhang J, Martinez I, Guyot F, Gillet P, Saxena S K (1997) X-ray diffraction study of magnesite at high pressure and high temperature, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 24, 122-130
Fiquet G, Guyot F, Kunz M, Matas J, Andrault D, Hanfland M (2002) Structural refinements of magnesite at very high pressure, American Mineralogist, 87, 1261–1265 [view file]
Isshiki M, Irifune T, Hirose K, Ono S, Ohishi Y, Watanuki T, Nishibori E, Takata M, Sakata M (2004) Stability of magnesite and its high-pressure form in the lowermost mantle, Nature, 427, 60-63
Bromiley F A, Ballaran T B, Langenhorst F, Seifert F (2007) Order and miscibility in the otavite-magnesite solid solution, American Mineralogist, 92, 829-836 [view file]
Bromiley F A, Ballaran T B, Zhang M (2007) An infrared investigation of the otavite-magnesite solid solution, American Mineralogist, 92, 837-843 [view file]
Litasov K D, Fei Y, Ohtani E, Kuribayashi T, Funakoshi K (2008) Thermal equation of state of magnesite to 32 GPa and 2073 K, Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors, 168, 191-203
Rividi N, van Zuilen M, Philippot P, Ménez B, Godard G, Poidatz E (2010) Calibration of carbonate composition using micro-Raman analysis: Application to planetary surface exploration, Astrobiology, 10, 293-309
Boulard E, Guyot F, Fiquet G (2012) The influence on Fe content on Raman spectra and unit cell parameters of magnesite-siderite solid solutions, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 39, 239-246
Lin J-F, Liu J, Jacobs C, Prakapenka V B (2012) Vibrational and elastic properties of ferromagnesite across the electronic spin-pairing transition of iron, American Mineralogist, 97, 583-591 [view file]
Scott H P, Doczy V M, Frank M R, Hasan M, Lin J F, Yang J (2013) Magnesite formation from MgO and CO₂ at the pressures and temperatures of Earth’s mantle, American Mineralogist, 98, 1211-1218
Theiss F L, Ayoko G A, Frost R L (2013) Stichtite a review, Clay Minerals, 48, 143-148 [view file]
Barton I F, Yang H, Barton M D (2014) The mineralogy, geochemistry, and metallurgy of cobalt in the rhombohedral carbonates, The Canadian Mineralogist, 52, 653-669
Merlini M, Sapelli F, Fumagalli P, Gatta G D, Lotti P, Tumiati S, Abdellatief M, Lausi A, Plaisier J, Hanfland M, Crichton W, Chantel J, Guignard J, Meneghini C, Pavese A, Poli S (2016) High-temperature and high-pressure behavior of carbonates in the ternary diagram CaCO₃-MgCO₃-FeCO₃, American Mineralogist, 101, 1423-1430
Perrin J, Vielzeuf D, Laporte D, Ricolleau A, Rossman G R, Floquet N (2016) Raman characterization of synthetic magnesian calcites, American Mineralogist, 101, 2525-2538
Müller J, Efthimiopoulos I, Jahn S, Koch-Müller M (2017) Effect of temperature on the pressure-induced spin transition in siderite and iron-bearing magnesite: a Raman spectroscopy study, European Journal of Mineralogy, 29, 785-793
Farsang S, Facq S, Redfern S A T (2018) Raman modes of carbonate minerals as pressure and temperature gauges up to 6 GPa and 500 °C, American Mineralogist, 103, 1988-1998
Liang W, Li Z, Yin Y, Li R, Chen L, He Y, Dong H, Dai L, Li H (2018) Single crystal growth, characterization and high-pressure Raman spectroscopy of impurity-free magnesite (MgCO₃), Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 45, 423-434
Shatskiy A, Podborodnikov I V, Arefiev A V, Minin D A, Chanyshev A D, Litasov K D (2018) Revision of the CaCO₃-MgCO₃ phase diagram at 3 and 6 GPa, American Mineralogist, 103, 441-452
Wang M, Shi G, Qin J, Bai Q (2018) Thermal behaviour of calcite-structure carbonates: a powder X-ray diffraction study between 83 and 618 K, European Journal of Mineralogy, 30, 939-949
Zhao C, Lv C, Xu L, Liang L, Liu J (2021) Raman signatures of the distortion and stability of MgCO₃ to 75 GPa, American Mineralogist, 106, 367-373

REFERENCES for Magnesite

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]

Karsten D L G (1808) Erd-und Steinarten, Magnesit, in Mineralogische Tabellen 2nd ed. Berlin 48-48 [view file]

Goldsmith J R, Graf D L (1958) Relation between lattice constants and compositions of the Ca-Mg carbonates, American Mineralogist, 43, 84-101 [view file]

Graf D L (1961) Crystallographic tables for the rhombohedral carbonates, American Mineralogist, 46, 1283-1316 [view file]

International Mineralogical Association (1962) International Mineralogical Association: Commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Magazine, 33, 260-263 [view file]

Rutt H N, Nicola J H (1974) Raman spectra of carbonates of calcite structure, Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics, 7, 4522-4528

Whittaker E J W, Middleton A P (1979) The intergrowth of fibrous brucite and fibrous magnesite with chrysotile, The Canadian Mineralogist, 17, 699-702 [view file]

International Mineralogical Association (1980) International Mineralogical Association: Commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Magazine, 43, 1053-1055 [view file]

Effenberger H, Mereiter K, Zemann J (1981) Crystal structure refinements of magnesite, calcite, rhodochrosite, siderite, smithonite, and dolomite, with discussion of some aspects of the stereochemistry of calcite type carbonates, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 156, 233-243 [view file]

Cloots R (1991) Raman spectrum of carbonates M^IICO₃ in the 1100-1000 cm^-1 region: observation of the v₁ mode of the isotopic (C¹⁶O₂¹⁸O)^2- ion, Spectrochimica Acta Part A-Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 47, 1745-1750

Ford F D, Skippen G B (1997) Petrology of the Flinton Creek metaperidotites: enstatite - magnesite and anthophyllite - magnesite assemblages from the Grenville Province, The Canadian Mineralogist, 35, 1221-1236 [view file]

Ross N L (1997) The equation of state and high-pressure behavior of magnesite, American Mineralogist, 82, 682–688 [view file]

Zhang J, Martinez I, Guyot F, Gillet P, Saxena S K (1997) X-ray diffraction study of magnesite at high pressure and high temperature, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 24, 122-130

Fiquet G, Guyot F, Kunz M, Matas J, Andrault D, Hanfland M (2002) Structural refinements of magnesite at very high pressure, American Mineralogist, 87, 1261–1265 [view file]

Isshiki M, Irifune T, Hirose K, Ono S, Ohishi Y, Watanuki T, Nishibori E, Takata M, Sakata M (2004) Stability of magnesite and its high-pressure form in the lowermost mantle, Nature, 427, 60-63

Bromiley F A, Ballaran T B, Langenhorst F, Seifert F (2007) Order and miscibility in the otavite-magnesite solid solution, American Mineralogist, 92, 829-836 [view file]

Bromiley F A, Ballaran T B, Zhang M (2007) An infrared investigation of the otavite-magnesite solid solution, American Mineralogist, 92, 837-843 [view file]

Litasov K D, Fei Y, Ohtani E, Kuribayashi T, Funakoshi K (2008) Thermal equation of state of magnesite to 32 GPa and 2073 K, Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors, 168, 191-203

Rividi N, van Zuilen M, Philippot P, Ménez B, Godard G, Poidatz E (2010) Calibration of carbonate composition using micro-Raman analysis: Application to planetary surface exploration, Astrobiology, 10, 293-309

Boulard E, Guyot F, Fiquet G (2012) The influence on Fe content on Raman spectra and unit cell parameters of magnesite-siderite solid solutions, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 39, 239-246

Lin J-F, Liu J, Jacobs C, Prakapenka V B (2012) Vibrational and elastic properties of ferromagnesite across the electronic spin-pairing transition of iron, American Mineralogist, 97, 583-591 [view file]

Scott H P, Doczy V M, Frank M R, Hasan M, Lin J F, Yang J (2013) Magnesite formation from MgO and CO₂ at the pressures and temperatures of Earth’s mantle, American Mineralogist, 98, 1211-1218

Theiss F L, Ayoko G A, Frost R L (2013) Stichtite a review, Clay Minerals, 48, 143-148 [view file]

Barton I F, Yang H, Barton M D (2014) The mineralogy, geochemistry, and metallurgy of cobalt in the rhombohedral carbonates, The Canadian Mineralogist, 52, 653-669

Merlini M, Sapelli F, Fumagalli P, Gatta G D, Lotti P, Tumiati S, Abdellatief M, Lausi A, Plaisier J, Hanfland M, Crichton W, Chantel J, Guignard J, Meneghini C, Pavese A, Poli S (2016) High-temperature and high-pressure behavior of carbonates in the ternary diagram CaCO₃-MgCO₃-FeCO₃, American Mineralogist, 101, 1423-1430

Perrin J, Vielzeuf D, Laporte D, Ricolleau A, Rossman G R, Floquet N (2016) Raman characterization of synthetic magnesian calcites, American Mineralogist, 101, 2525-2538

Müller J, Efthimiopoulos I, Jahn S, Koch-Müller M (2017) Effect of temperature on the pressure-induced spin transition in siderite and iron-bearing magnesite: a Raman spectroscopy study, European Journal of Mineralogy, 29, 785-793

Farsang S, Facq S, Redfern S A T (2018) Raman modes of carbonate minerals as pressure and temperature gauges up to 6 GPa and 500 °C, American Mineralogist, 103, 1988-1998

Liang W, Li Z, Yin Y, Li R, Chen L, He Y, Dong H, Dai L, Li H (2018) Single crystal growth, characterization and high-pressure Raman spectroscopy of impurity-free magnesite (MgCO₃), Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 45, 423-434

Shatskiy A, Podborodnikov I V, Arefiev A V, Minin D A, Chanyshev A D, Litasov K D (2018) Revision of the CaCO₃-MgCO₃ phase diagram at 3 and 6 GPa, American Mineralogist, 103, 441-452

Wang M, Shi G, Qin J, Bai Q (2018) Thermal behaviour of calcite-structure carbonates: a powder X-ray diffraction study between 83 and 618 K, European Journal of Mineralogy, 30, 939-949

Zhao C, Lv C, Xu L, Liang L, Liu J (2021) Raman signatures of the distortion and stability of MgCO₃ to 75 GPa, American Mineralogist, 106, 367-373