R060417 - RRUFF Database: Raman, X-ray, Infrared, and Chemistry

Scheelite R060417

Name: Scheelite
RRUFF ID: R060417
Ideal Chemistry: Ca(WO₄)
Locality: Karmang Valley, near Khapalu, Baltistan, Pakistan
Source: Herb Obodda 089 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Orange-yellow fragment
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis

Mineral Group: [ Scheelite (17) ]

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CHEMISTRY

RRUFF ID:	R060417.2
Sample Description:	Microprobe fragment
Measured Chemistry:	Ca_1.00W_1.00O₄

RAMAN SPECTRUM

RRUFF ID:

Sample Description:

Unoriented Raman on the primary sample

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BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS

RRUFF ID:

R060417

Wavelength:

Sample Description:

Unoriented Raman on the primary sample

Instrument settings:

Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 1% of 150mW

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POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R060417.1

Sample Description:

Powder

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 5.24429(6)Å b: 5.24429(6)Å c: 11.3759(2)Å
alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 312.867(8)Å³ Crystal System: tetragonal

File Type Information

Calculated diffraction file.

File Type Information

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

File Type Information

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

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REFERENCES for Scheelite
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]
Hoffmann C A S (1789) Mineralsystem des Herrn Inspektor Werners mit dessen Erlaubnis herausgegeben von C A S Hoffmann, Bergmannisches Journal, 1, 369-398 [view file]
Karsten D L G (1800) Tabellarische uebersicht der Gebirgsarten, in Mineralogische Tabellen Heinrich August Rottmann Berlin 56-56 [view file]
von Leonhard K C (1821) Scheelit, in Handbuch der Oryktognosie Mohr and Winter Heidelberg, Germany 594-596 [view file]
Hutton C O (1950) Studies of heavy detrital minerals, Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 61, 635-710 [view file]
Kay M I, Frazer B C, Almodovar I (1964) Neutron diffraction refinement of CaWO₄, Journal of Chemical Physics, 40, 504-506
Iishi K (1975) Study of the force field of scheelite, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 141, 31-58 [view file]
Shimazaki H (1977) Grossular-spessartine-almandine garnets from some Japanese scheelite skarns, The Canadian Mineralogist, 15, 74-80 [view file]
Zaw U K, Clark A H (1978) Fluoride-hydroxyl ratios of skarn silicates, Cantung E-zone scheelite orebody, Tungsten, Northwest Territories, The Canadian Mineralogist, 16, 207-221 [view file]
Hazen R M, Finger L W (1985) High–pressure crystal chemistry of scheelite-type tungstates and molybdates, Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, 46, 253-263 [link]
Kloprogge J T, Frost R L (1999) A Raman microscopic study of tungstate and molybdate minerals: scheelite, wolframite and wulfenite, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1999, 193-211
Itoh M, Fujita M (2000) Optical properties of scheelite and raspite PbWO₄ crystals, Physical Review B, 62, 12825-12830
Wood S A, Samson I M (2000) The hydrothermal geochemistry of tungsten in granitoid environments: I. Relative solubilities of ferberite and scheelite as a function of T, P, pH and m_NaCl, Economic Geology, 95, 143-182
Crane M, Frost R L, Williams P A, Kloprogge J T (2002) Raman spectroscopy of the molybdate minerals chillagite (tungsteinian wulfenite-I4), stolzite, scheelite, wolframite and wulfenite, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 33, 62-66
Errandonea D, Monjón F J, Somayazulu M, Häusermann D (2004) Effects of pressure on the local atomic structure of CaWO₄ and YLiF₄: mechanism of the scheelite-to-wolframite and scheelite-to-fergusonite transitions, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 177, 1087-1097
Kloprogge J T, Weier M L Duong L V, Frost R L (2004) Microwave-assisted synthesis and characterisation of divalent metal tungstate nanocrystalline minerals: ferberite, hübnerite, sanmartinite, scheelite and stolzite, Materials Chemistry and Physics, 88, 438-443
Rodríguez-Hernández P, López-Solano J, Radescu S, Mujica A, Muñoz A, Errandonea D, Pellicer-Porres J, Segura A, Ferrer-Roca C, Manjón F J, Kumar R S, Tschauner O, Aquilanti G (2006) Theoretical and experimental study of CaWO₄ and SrWO₄ under pressure, Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, 67, 2164-2171
Poulin R S, McDonald A M, Kontak D J, McClenaghan M B (2016) On the relationship between cathodoluminescence and the chemical composition of scheelite from geologically diverse ore-deposit environments, The Canadian Mineralogist, 54, 1147-1173
Poulin R S, Kontak D J, McDonald A (2018) Assessing scheelite as an ore-deposit discriminator using its trace-element and REE chemistry, The Canadian Mineralogist, 56, 265-302

REFERENCES for Scheelite

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]

Hoffmann C A S (1789) Mineralsystem des Herrn Inspektor Werners mit dessen Erlaubnis herausgegeben von C A S Hoffmann, Bergmannisches Journal, 1, 369-398 [view file]

Karsten D L G (1800) Tabellarische uebersicht der Gebirgsarten, in Mineralogische Tabellen Heinrich August Rottmann Berlin 56-56 [view file]

von Leonhard K C (1821) Scheelit, in Handbuch der Oryktognosie Mohr and Winter Heidelberg, Germany 594-596 [view file]

Hutton C O (1950) Studies of heavy detrital minerals, Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 61, 635-710 [view file]

Kay M I, Frazer B C, Almodovar I (1964) Neutron diffraction refinement of CaWO₄, Journal of Chemical Physics, 40, 504-506

Iishi K (1975) Study of the force field of scheelite, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 141, 31-58 [view file]

Shimazaki H (1977) Grossular-spessartine-almandine garnets from some Japanese scheelite skarns, The Canadian Mineralogist, 15, 74-80 [view file]

Zaw U K, Clark A H (1978) Fluoride-hydroxyl ratios of skarn silicates, Cantung E-zone scheelite orebody, Tungsten, Northwest Territories, The Canadian Mineralogist, 16, 207-221 [view file]

Hazen R M, Finger L W (1985) High–pressure crystal chemistry of scheelite-type tungstates and molybdates, Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, 46, 253-263 [link]

Kloprogge J T, Frost R L (1999) A Raman microscopic study of tungstate and molybdate minerals: scheelite, wolframite and wulfenite, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1999, 193-211

Itoh M, Fujita M (2000) Optical properties of scheelite and raspite PbWO₄ crystals, Physical Review B, 62, 12825-12830

Wood S A, Samson I M (2000) The hydrothermal geochemistry of tungsten in granitoid environments: I. Relative solubilities of ferberite and scheelite as a function of T, P, pH and m_NaCl, Economic Geology, 95, 143-182

Crane M, Frost R L, Williams P A, Kloprogge J T (2002) Raman spectroscopy of the molybdate minerals chillagite (tungsteinian wulfenite-I4), stolzite, scheelite, wolframite and wulfenite, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 33, 62-66

Errandonea D, Monjón F J, Somayazulu M, Häusermann D (2004) Effects of pressure on the local atomic structure of CaWO₄ and YLiF₄: mechanism of the scheelite-to-wolframite and scheelite-to-fergusonite transitions, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 177, 1087-1097

Kloprogge J T, Weier M L Duong L V, Frost R L (2004) Microwave-assisted synthesis and characterisation of divalent metal tungstate nanocrystalline minerals: ferberite, hübnerite, sanmartinite, scheelite and stolzite, Materials Chemistry and Physics, 88, 438-443

Rodríguez-Hernández P, López-Solano J, Radescu S, Mujica A, Muñoz A, Errandonea D, Pellicer-Porres J, Segura A, Ferrer-Roca C, Manjón F J, Kumar R S, Tschauner O, Aquilanti G (2006) Theoretical and experimental study of CaWO₄ and SrWO₄ under pressure, Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, 67, 2164-2171

Poulin R S, McDonald A M, Kontak D J, McClenaghan M B (2016) On the relationship between cathodoluminescence and the chemical composition of scheelite from geologically diverse ore-deposit environments, The Canadian Mineralogist, 54, 1147-1173

Poulin R S, Kontak D J, McDonald A (2018) Assessing scheelite as an ore-deposit discriminator using its trace-element and REE chemistry, The Canadian Mineralogist, 56, 265-302