Baddeleyite R100171

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Name: Baddeleyite
RRUFF ID: R100171
Ideal Chemistry: ZrO2
Locality: Palabora Mine, Phalaborwa, Transvaal, Republic of South Africa
Source: Mauricio Ibanez-Mejia [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Fragments of black prismatic crystals
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction.
Mineral Group: [ Baddeleyite (3) ]
Quick search: [ All Baddeleyite samples (3) ]
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented Raman on the primary sample
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RRUFF ID: R100171
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Sample Description: Unoriented Raman on the primary sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW
POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R100171.9
Sample Description: Single crystal, powder profile is calculated
Cell Refinement Output: a: 5.150(2)Å    b: 5.210(3)Å    c: 5.322(2)Å
alpha: 90°    beta: 99.36(3)°    gamma: 90°   Volume: 140.91(5)Å3    Crystal System: monoclinic
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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Baddeleyite

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]

Fletcher L (1893) On baddeleyite (native zirconia), a new mineral, from Rakawana, Ceylon, Mineralogical Magazine, 10, 148-160   [view file]

Hiemstra S A (1955) Baddeleyite from Phalaborwa, Eastern Transvaal, American Mineralogist, 40, 275-282   [view file]

McCullough J D, Trueblood K N (1959) The crystal structure of baddeleyite (monoclinic ZrO2), Acta Crystallographica, 12, 507-511

Smith D K, Newkirk W (1965) The crystal structure of baddeleyite (monoclinic ZrO2) and its relation to the polymorphism of ZrO2, Acta Crystallographica, A18, 983-991

Keramidas V G, White W B (1974) Raman scattering study of the crystallization and phase transformations of ZrO2, Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 57, 22-24

Andrews A J, Masliwec A, Morris W A, Owsiacki L, York D (1986) The silver deposits at Cobalt and Gowganda, Ontario. II: An experiment in age determinations employing radiometric and paleomagnetic measurements, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 23, 1507-1518

Naslund H R (1987) Lamellae of baddeleyite and Fe–Cr-spinel in ilmenite from the Basistoppen sill, east Greenland, The Canadian Mineralogist, 25, 91-96   [view file]

Howard C J, Hill R J, Reichert B E (1988) Structures of the ZrO2 polymorphs at room temperature by high-resolution neutron powder diffraction, Acta Crystallographica, B44, 116-120

Cabella R, Gazzotti M, Lucchetti G (1997) Loveringite and baddeleyite in layers of chromian spinel from the Bracco ophiolitic unit, northern Apennines, Italy, The Canadian Mineralogist, 35, 899-908   [view file]

Torres F J, Amigo J M, Alarcon J (2003) X-ray powder diffraction study of monoclinic V4+–ZrO2 solid solutions obtained from gels, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 173, 40-44

Swamy V, Dubrovinsky L S, Dubrovinskaia N A, Langenhorst F, Simionovici A S, Drakopoulos M, Dmitriev V, Weber H P (2005) Size effects on the structure and phase transition behavior of baddeleyite TiO2, Solid State Communications, 134, 541-546

Glass B P, Fries M (2008) Micro-Raman spectroscopic study of fine-grained, shock-metamorphosed rock fragments from the Australasian microtektite layer, Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 43, 1487-1496   [view file]

Giebel R J, Gauert C D K, Marks M A W, Costin G, Markl G (2017) Multi-stage formation of REE minerals in the Palabora Carbonatite Complex, South Africa, American Mineralogist, 102, 1218-1233