Kupletskite R110176
Name: Kupletskite
RRUFF ID: R110176
Ideal Chemistry: K2NaMn2+7Ti2(Si4O12)2O2(OH)4F
Locality: Mont St-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
Source: Donald Doell [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Dark brown micaceous associated with orthoclase and aegirine
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by single crystal X-ray diffraction.
Mineral Groups: [ astrophyllite (11) ] [ Kupletskite (2) ]
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented Raman on the primary sample
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RRUFF ID: R110176
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Sample Description: Unoriented Raman on the primary sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW
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POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R110176.9
Sample Description: Single crystal, powder profile is calculated
Cell Refinement Output: a: 5.407(1)Å    b: 11.925(2)Å    c: 11.737(2)Å
alpha: 113.02(1)°    beta: 94.78(1)°    gamma: 103.27(1)°   Volume: 665.1(1)Å3    Crystal System: triclinic
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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Kupletskite

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]

Semenov E I (1956) Kupletskite - a new mineral of the astrophyllite group, Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, 108, 933-936   [view file]

Fleischer M (1957) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 42, 117-124   [view file]

Piilonen P C, Mcdonald A M, Lalonde A E (2001) Kupletskite polytypes from the Lovozero massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia: Kupletskite-1A and kupletskite-Ma2b2c, European Journal of Mineralogy, 13, 973-984

Jambor J L, Roberts A C (2002) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 87, 765-768   [view file]

Piilonen P C, LaLonde A E, McDonald A M, Gault R A, Larsen A O (2003) Insights into astrophyllite–group minerals. I. Nomenclature, composition and development of a standardized general formula, The Canadian Mineralogist, 41, 1-26   [view file]

Piilonen P C, McDonald A M, LaLonde A E (2003) Insights into astrophyllite–group minerals. II. Crystal chemistry, The Canadian Mineralogist, 41, 27-54   [view file]

Pillonen P C, Pekov I V, Back M, Steede T, Gault R A (2006) Crystal-structure refinement of a Zn-rich kupletskite from Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, with contributions to the geochemistry of zinc in peralkaline environments, Mineralogical Magazine, 70, 565-578   [view file]

Ercit T S, Piilonen P C, Rowe R (2007) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 92, 1539-1542   [view file]

Cámara F, Sokolova E, Abdu Y, Hawthorne F C (2010) The crystal structures of niobophyllite, kupletskite-(Cs) and Sn-rich astrophyllite: Revisions to the crystal chemistry of the astrophyllite-group minerals, The Canadian Mineralogist, 48, 1-16   [view file]

Sokolova E (2012) Further developments in the structure topology of the astrophyllite-group minerals, Mineralogical Magazine, 76, 863-882   [view file]

Sokolova E, Cámara F, Hawthorne F C, Ciriotti M E (2017) The astrophyllite supergroup: nomenclature and classification, Mineralogical Magazine, 81, 143-153