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Tavorite R070523

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Name: Tavorite
RRUFF ID: R070523
Ideal Chemistry: LiFe3+(PO4)(OH)
Locality: Bull Moose mine, Custer District, Custer County, South Dakota, USA
Source: James Shigley [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Bright greenish-yellow vitreous crystals, associated with colorless triphylite, pale yellow hureaulite, and dark blue barbosalite.
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction.
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RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
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RRUFF ID: R070523
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW
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POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R070523.9
Sample Description: Single crystal, powder profile is calculated
Cell Refinement Output: a: 5.348(3)Å    b: 7.271(3)Å    c: 5.109(3)Å
alpha: 109.23(2)°    beta: 97.96(3)°    gamma: 106.35(2)°   Volume: 174.03(6)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 Tavorite

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]

Fleischer M (1954) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 39, 848-852   [view file]

Lindberg M L, Pecora W T (1954) Tavorite and barbosalite: two new phosphate minerals from Minas Gerais, Brazil, Science, 119, 739-739

Lindberg M L, Pecora W T (1955) Tavorite and barbosalite, two new phosphate minerals from Minas Gerias, Brazil, American Mineralogist, 40, 952-966   [view file]

Roberts A C, Dunn P J, Grice J D, Newbury D E, Roberts W L (1988) The X-ray crystallography of tavorite from the Tip Top pegmatite, Custer, South Dakota, Powder Diffraction, 3, 93-95   [view file]

Yakubovich O V, Urusov V S (1997) The structure and electron density of Fe2+-bearing tavorite in relation to the genetic crystal chemistry of secondary phosphates of lithium pegmatites, Geochemistry International, 35, 630-638

Marx N, Croguennec L, Carlier D, Wattiaux A, Le Cras F, Suard E, Delmas C (2010) The structure of tavorite LiFePO4(OH) from diffraction and GGA + U studies and its preliminary electrochemical characterization, Dalton Transactions, 39, 5108-5116

Yang Y, Hirayama M, Kubota K, Kanno R (2012) Synthesis and electrode characteristics of solid solution LiMn1−xFexPO4(OH) (0 ≤ x ≤ 0.3) with tavorite structure for lithium batteries, Journal of Power Sources, 205, 394-401