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Roselite R150066

Name: Roselite
RRUFF ID: R150066
Ideal Chemistry: Ca₂Co(AsO₄)₂·2H₂O
Locality: Bou Azzer, Morocco
Source: William Pinch [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Dark rose-pink elongated or thick tabular crystals, associated with quartz and calcite.
Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis.

Mineral Group: [ Roselite (18) ]

Quick search: [ All Roselite samples (2) ]

CHEMISTRY

RRUFF ID:	R150066
Sample Description:	Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry:	Ca_1.96(Co_0.63Mg_0.26Zn_0.04Fe_0.02Mn_0.01)(As_1.02O₄)₂·2H₂O
Microprobe Data File:	[ Download Excel File ]

RAMAN SPECTRUM

RRUFF ID:

Sample Description:

Unoriented Raman on the primary sample

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BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS

RRUFF ID:

R150066

Wavelength:

Sample Description:

Unoriented Raman on the primary sample

Instrument settings:

Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW

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	Raman Data (RAW)
	RRUFF File

POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R150066.9

Sample Description:

Single crystal, powder profile is calculated

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 5.805(2)Å b: 12.891(3)Å c: 5.626(2)Å
alpha: 90° beta: 107.50(1)° gamma: 90° Volume: 401.51(8)Å³ Crystal System: monoclinic

File Type Information

Calculated diffraction file.

File Type Information

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

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	DIF File
	X-ray Data (XY - RAW)
	RRUFF File

REFERENCES for Roselite
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]
Levy M, Children J G (1824) Account of a new mineral substance, The Annals of Philosophy, 8, 439-442 [view file]
Weisbach A (1877) Mineralogische Mittheilungen, Jahrbuch für das Berg- und Hüttenwesen im Königreiche Sachsen, 1877, 42-53 [view file]
Peacock M A (1936) On roselite and the rule of highest pseudo-symmetry, American Mineralogist, 21, 589-602 [view file]
Hawthorne F C, Ferguson R B (1977) The crystal structure of roselite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 15, 36-42 [view file]
Keller P, Hess H, Riffel H (1981) Die kristallstrukturen von zwei neuen calcium-zink-arsenat-mineralen von Tsumeb/Nambia, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 156, 70-71 [view file]
Dunn P J, Sturman B D, Nelen J A (1987) Wendwilsonite, the Mg analogue of roselite, from Morocco, New Jersey, and Mexico, and new data on roselite, American Mineralogist, 72, 217-221 [view file]
Pekov I V, Vinogradova R A, Chukanov N V, Kulikova I M (2001) On magnesian and cobalt arsenates of the fairfieldite and roselite groups, Zapiski Vserossijskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva, 130, issue 4 10-23 [view file]
Fleck M, Kolitsch U, Hertweck B (2002) Natural and synthetic compounds with kröhnkite-type chains: review and classification, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 217, 435-443
Frost R L (2009) Raman and infrared spectroscopy of arsenates of the roselite and fairfieldite mineral subgroups, Spectrochimica Acta Part A-Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 71, 1788-1794
Yang H, Jenkins R A, Downs R T, Evans S H, Tait K T (2011) Rruffite, Ca₂Cu(AsO₄)₂·2H₂O, a new member of the roselite group, from Tierra Amarilla, Chile, The Canadian Mineralogist, 49, 877-884 [view file]
Hazen R M, Hystad G, Golden J J, Hummer D R, Liu C, Downs R T, Morrison S M, Ralph J, Grew E S (2017) Cobalt mineral ecology, American Mineralogist, 102, 108-116 [view file]

REFERENCES for Roselite

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]

Levy M, Children J G (1824) Account of a new mineral substance, The Annals of Philosophy, 8, 439-442 [view file]

Weisbach A (1877) Mineralogische Mittheilungen, Jahrbuch für das Berg- und Hüttenwesen im Königreiche Sachsen, 1877, 42-53 [view file]

Peacock M A (1936) On roselite and the rule of highest pseudo-symmetry, American Mineralogist, 21, 589-602 [view file]

Hawthorne F C, Ferguson R B (1977) The crystal structure of roselite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 15, 36-42 [view file]

Keller P, Hess H, Riffel H (1981) Die kristallstrukturen von zwei neuen calcium-zink-arsenat-mineralen von Tsumeb/Nambia, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 156, 70-71 [view file]

Dunn P J, Sturman B D, Nelen J A (1987) Wendwilsonite, the Mg analogue of roselite, from Morocco, New Jersey, and Mexico, and new data on roselite, American Mineralogist, 72, 217-221 [view file]

Pekov I V, Vinogradova R A, Chukanov N V, Kulikova I M (2001) On magnesian and cobalt arsenates of the fairfieldite and roselite groups, Zapiski Vserossijskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva, 130, issue 4 10-23 [view file]

Fleck M, Kolitsch U, Hertweck B (2002) Natural and synthetic compounds with kröhnkite-type chains: review and classification, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 217, 435-443

Frost R L (2009) Raman and infrared spectroscopy of arsenates of the roselite and fairfieldite mineral subgroups, Spectrochimica Acta Part A-Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 71, 1788-1794

Yang H, Jenkins R A, Downs R T, Evans S H, Tait K T (2011) Rruffite, Ca₂Cu(AsO₄)₂·2H₂O, a new member of the roselite group, from Tierra Amarilla, Chile, The Canadian Mineralogist, 49, 877-884 [view file]

Hazen R M, Hystad G, Golden J J, Hummer D R, Liu C, Downs R T, Morrison S M, Ralph J, Grew E S (2017) Cobalt mineral ecology, American Mineralogist, 102, 108-116 [view file]