Sogdianite R050648


 Name: Sogdianite
RRUFF ID: R050648
Ideal Chemistry: KZr2Li3Si12O30
Locality: Dara-i-Pioz, Tadjikistan
Source: Dmitri Belakyovski
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Purple tabular fragment, used in the Geiger & Grodzicki (2012) study
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis
Mineral Group: [ Milarite (18) ]
CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R050648.2
Sample Description: Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry: (◻1.13Na0.87)Σ=2K1.00Li3.00(Zr0.76Fe3+0.73Ti0.37Al0.14)Σ=2Si12.00O30 ; Li not measured but estimated by difference and charge balance.
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented Sample. Raman spectra are overwhelmed with fluorescence under laser 780 nm.
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RRUFF ID: R050648
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Sample Description: Unoriented Sample. Raman spectra are overwhelmed with fluorescence under laser 780 nm.
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW
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INFRARED SPECTRUM (Attenuated Total Reflectance) 
RRUFF ID: R050648.1
Instrument settings: SensIR Durascope on a Nicolet Magna 860 FTIR
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POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R050648.1
Sample Description: Powder
Cell Refinement Output: a: 10.0439(4)Å    b: 10.0439(4)Å    c: 14.2089(4)Å
alpha: 90.°    beta: 90.°    gamma: 120.°   Volume: 1241.3(1)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 Sogdianite

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]

Dusmatov V D, Efimov A F, Kataeva Z T, Khoroshilova L A, Yanulov K P (1968) Sogdianite - a new mineral, Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, 182, 1176-1177   [view file]

Fleischer M (1969) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 54, 1218-1223   [view file]

International Mineralogical Association (1971) International Mineralogical Association: Commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Magazine, 38, 102-105   [view file]

Fleischer M (1972) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 57, 1909-1914   [view file]

Cooper M A, Hawthorne F C, Grew E S (1999) The crystal chemistry of sogdianite, a milarite-group mineral, American Mineralogist, 84, 764-768   [view file]

Sokolova E V, Hawthorne F C, Pautov L A (2000) The crystal chemistry of Li-bearing minerals with the milarite-type structure: the crystal structure of end-member sogdianite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 38, 853-859   [view file]

Geiger C A, Grodzicki M (2012) A 57Fe Mössbauer spectroscopic study of sogdianite: an example of a symmetric electric field gradient around Fe3+, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 39, 73-78

Gagné O C, Hawthorne F C (2016) Chemographic exploration of the milarite-type structure, The Canadian Mineralogist, 54, 1229-1247