Hydrotalcite R060527



Name: Hydrotalcite
RRUFF ID: R060527
Ideal Chemistry: Mg6Al2CO3(OH)16(H2O)4
Locality: Jacupiranga Pegmatite, Sao Paulo State, Brazil
Source: Michael Scott S100217 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Orange hexagonal prisms topped with steep pyramids. 2H polytype
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by single crystal X-ray diffraction.
Mineral Group: [ Hydrotalcite (22) ]
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CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R060527.2
Sample Description: Microprobe Fragment
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
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RRUFF ID: R060527
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW
POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R060527.9
Sample Description: Single crystal, powder profile is calculated
Cell Refinement Output: a: 3.037(3)Å    b: 3.037(3)Å    c: 15.08(2)Å
alpha: 90°    beta: 90°    gamma: 120°   Volume: 120.51(4)Å3    Crystal System: hexagonal
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REFERENCES for Hydrotalcite

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]

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Caillère S (1945) Sur l'hydrotalcite de snarum (Norvège), Bulletin de la Société Française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie, 67, 411-419   [view file]

Ross G J, Kodama H (1967) Properties of a synthetic magnesium-aluminum carbonate hydroxide and its realtionship to magnesium-aluminum double hydroxide, manasseite and hydrotalcite, American Mineralogist, 52, 1036-1047   [view file]

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Taylor H F W (1973) Crystal structures of some double hydroxide minerals, Mineralogical Magazine, 39, 377-389   [view file]

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Rousselot I, Taviot-Gueho C, Leroux F, Leone P, Palvadeau P, Besse J (2002) Insights on the structural chemistry of hydrocalumite and hydrotalcite-like materials: investigation of the series Ca2M3+(OH)6Cl·2H2O (M3+: Al3+, Ga3+, Fe3+, and Sc3+) by x-ray powder diffraction, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 167, 137-144

Frost R L, Weier M L, Kloprogge J T (2003) Raman spectroscopy of some natural hydrotalcites with sulphate and carbonate in the interlayer, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 34, 760-768

Lozano R P, Rossi C, La Iglesia A, Matesanz E (2012) Zaccagnaite-3R, a new Zn-Al hydrotalcite polytype from El Soplao cave (Cantabria, Spain), American Mineralogist, 97, 513-523   [view file]

Mills S J, Christy A G, Génin J -M R, Kameda T, Colombo F (2012) Nomenclature of the hydrotalcite supergroup: natural layered double hydroxides, Mineralogical Magazine, 76, 1289-1336   [view file]

Mills S J, Christy A G, Kampf A R, Housley R M, Favreau G, Boulliard J -C, Bourgoin V (2012) Zincalstibite-9R: the first nine-layer polytype with the layered double hydroxide structure-type, Mineralogical Magazine, 76, 1337-1345   [view file]

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Mills S J, Christy A G, Schmitt R (2016) The creation of neotypes for hydrotalcite, Mineralogical Magazine, 80, 1023-1029   [view file]

Zhitova E S, Krivovichev S V, Pekov I, Greenwell H C (2019) Crystal chemistry of natural layered double hydroxides. 5. Single-crystal structure refinement of hydrotalcite, [Mg6Al2(OH)16](CO3)(H2O)4, Mineralogical Magazine, 83, 269-280   [view file]