Important Update News

The RRUFF Project has been migrated to RRUFF.net. Please update your bookmarks immediately, if you have not done so.

The data on this website is already three years out of date, and the entire website will be taken offline before the end of the year.

We are grateful to NASA for the funding of this effort.

Botallackite R080012

Browse Search Results 
<< Previous |  Back to Search Results |  Next >> 
Record 2 of 2  


Name: Botallackite
RRUFF ID: R080012
Ideal Chemistry: Cu2Cl(OH)3
Locality: Cligga Head, Cornwall, England
Source: William W. Pinch [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Aggregate of green bladed to platy crystals
Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis.
Mineral Group: [ Atacamite (16) ]
Quick search: [ All Botallackite samples (2) ]
CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R080012
Sample Description: Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry: (Cu2.00Zn0.02)Cl0.96(OH)3
Microprobe Data File: [ Download Excel File ]
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
RRUFF ID:
Sample Description: Unoriented sample
DOWNLOADS:

  To download sample data,
  please select a specific
  orientation angle.
Direction of polarization of laser relative to fiducial mark:
X Min:    X Max:    X Sort:
BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS
RRUFF ID: R080012
Wavelength:
Sample Description: Unoriented sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 80% of 150mW
DOWNLOADS:

Raman Data (Processed)
RRUFF File
POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R080012.9
Sample Description: Single crystal, powder profile is calculated
Cell Refinement Output: a: 5.725(3)Å    b: 6.122(3)Å    c: 5.627(3)Å
alpha: 90°    beta: 93.01(3)°    gamma: 90°   Volume: 197.0(1)Å3    Crystal System: monoclinic
  File Type Information Close
Calculated diffraction file.

  File Type Information Close
Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

DOWNLOADS:

DIF File
X-ray Data (XY - RAW) View Graph
RRUFF File
X Min:    X Max:    X Sort:
REFERENCES for Botallackite

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]

Church A H (1865) Notes on a Cornish mineral of the atacamite group, Journal of the Chemical Society, 18, 212-214   [view file]

Frondel C (1950) On paratacamite and some related copper chlorides, Mineralogical Magazine, 29, 34-45   [view file]

Fleischer M (1951) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 36, 381-384   [view file]

Hawthorne F C (1985) Refinement of the crystal structure of botallackite, Mineralogical Magazine, 49, 87-89   [view file]

Pollard A M, Thomas R G, Williams P A (1989) Synthesis and stabilities of the basic copper (II) chlorides atacamite, paratacamite and botallackite, Mineralogical Magazine, 53, 557-563   [view file]

Scott D A (2000) A review of copper chlorides and related salts in bronze corrosion and as painting pigments, Studies in Conservation, 45, 39-53

Milman V, Winkler B (2001) Prediction of hydrogen positions in complex structures, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 216, 99-104

Martens W, Frost R L, Williams P A (2003) Raman and infrared spectroscopic study of the basic copper chloride minerals - implications for the study of the copper and brass corrosion and "bronze disease", Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Abhandlungen, 178, 197-215

Zheng X G, Xu C N (2004) Antiferromagnetic transition in botallackite Cu2Cl(OH)3, Solid State Communications, 131, 509-511

Zheng X G, Mori T, Nishiyama K, Higemoto W, Yamada H, Nishikubo K, Xu C N (2005) Antiferromagnetic transitions in polymorphous minerals of the natural cuprates atacamite and botallackite Cu2Cl(OH)3, Physical Review B, 71, 174404-8