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Name: Richterite RRUFF ID: R060471 Ideal Chemistry: Na(NaCa)Mg5Si8O22(OH)2 Locality: Kipawa Complex, Villedieu Township, Quebec, Canada Source: Michael Scott S100107 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Black platy fragment embedded in albite Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis |
Mineral Group: [ amphibole (107) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Richterite samples (6) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R060471.1 | |||||||
Sample Description: | Powder | |||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 9.8914(4)Å b: 17.963(1)Å c: 5.2786(3)Å alpha: 90.° beta: 104.274(5)° gamma: 90.° Volume: 908.96(6)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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REFERENCES for Richterite | |
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American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record] |
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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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Breithaupt J F A (1865) Mineralogische Studien. 25. Richterit, Berg- und Huttenmannische Zeitung, 24, 364-364 [view file] |
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Leake B E (1978) Nomenclature of amphiboles, American Mineralogist, 63, 1023-1052 [view file] |
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Steel E, Wylie A (1981) Mineralogical characteristics of asbestos, 1, in Geology of Asbestos Deposits Edwards Brothers, Inc. Ann Arbor, MI. 93-99 |
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Goldman D S, Rossman G R (1982) The identification of Fe2+ in the M4 site of calcic amphiboles: reply, American Mineralogist, 67, 340-342 [view file] |
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Dorling M, Zussman J (1985) An investigation of nephrite jade by electron microscopy, Mineralogical Magazine, 49, 31-36 [view file] |
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Oberti R, Ungaretti L, Cannillo E, Hawthorne F C (1992) The behaviour of Ti in amphiboles: I. Four- and six-coordinate Ti in richterite, European Journal of Mineralogy, 4, 425-439 |
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Oberti R, Hawthorne F C, Ungaretti L, Cannillo E (1993) The behaviour of Mn in amphiboles: Mn in richterite, European Journal of Mineralogy, 5, 43-51 |
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Robert J L, Della Ventura G, Raudsepp M, Hawthorne F C (1993) Rietveld structure refinement of synthetic strontium-rich potassium-richterites, European Journal of Mineralogy, 5, 199-206 |
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Hawthorne F C, Della Ventura G, Robert J L, Welch M D, Raudsepp M, Jenkins D M (1997) A Rietveld and infrared study of synthetic amphiboles along the potassium-richterite-tremolite join, American Mineralogist, 82, 708-716 [view file] |
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Robert J L, Della Ventura G, Hawthorne F C (1999) Near-infrared study of short-range disorder of OH and F in monoclinic amphiboles, American Mineralogist, 84, 86-91 [view file] |
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Hawthorne F C, Oberti R, Zanetti A (2008) The crystal chemistry of alkali amphiboles from the Kajlidongri Manganese Mine, India, The Canadian Mineralogist, 46, 455-466 [view file] |
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Su S C (2008) in How to use the d-spacing/interfacial angle tables to index zone-axis patterns of amphibole asbestos minerals obtained by selected area electron diffraction in transmission electron microscope Asbestos Analysis Consulting Newark, Delaware 1-160 [view file] |
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Oberti R, Boiocchi M, Zema M, Ventura G D (2016) Synthetic potassic-ferro-richterite: 1. Composition, crystal structure refinement, and HT Behavior by in operando single-crystal X-ray diffraction, The Canadian Mineralogist, 54, 353-369 |
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Ventura G D, Redhammer G J, Robert J, Sergent J, Iezzi G, Cavallo A (2016) Crystal-chemistry of synthetic amphiboles along the richteriteferro-richterite join: A combined spectroscopic (FTIR, Mössbauer), XRPD, and microchemical study, The Canadian Mineralogist, 54, 97-114 |
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Day M C, Hawthorne F C, Susta U, Della Ventura G, Harlow G E (2018) Short-range order-disorder in gem richterite and pargasite from Afghanistan: Crystal-structure refinement and infrared spectroscopy, The Canadian Mineralogist, 56, 939-950 |
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Tribaudino M, Hovis G L, Almer C, Leaman A (2022) Thermal expansion of minerals in the amphibole supergroup, American Mineralogist, 107, 1302-1312 |
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Su S C in A preliminary characterization of “Libby-type amphiboles” by SAED (Selected Area Electron Diffraction) Batta Labratories, Inc. Newark, Delaware 1-7 [view file] |
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