Hydroxylellestadite R060769
Name: Hydroxylellestadite
RRUFF ID: R060769
Ideal Chemistry: Ca5(SiO4)1.5(SO4)1.5OH
Locality: Crestmore, Riverside County, California, USA
Source: Michael Scott S101069 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Transparent tan-yellow prismatic crystals in blue calcite
Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis.
Mineral Group: [ Apatite (56) ]
CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R060769.2
Sample Description: Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry: Ca5.00((SiO4)1.23(SO4)1.09(PO4)0.68)Σ=3((OH)0.89Cl0.11)Σ=1; OH estimated by difference and stoichiometry
Microprobe Data File: [ Download Excel File ]
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
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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: R060769.9
Sample Description: Single crystal, powder profile is calculated
Cell Refinement Output: a: 9.527(2)Å    b: 9.527(2)Å    c: 6.939(2)Å
alpha: 90°    beta: 90°    gamma: 120°   Volume: 545.4(1)Å3    Crystal System: hexagonal
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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Hydroxylellestadite

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]

McConnell D (1937) The substitution of SiO4- and SO4-groups for PO4-groups in the apatite structure; ellestadite, the end-member, American Mineralogist, 22, 977-986   [view file]

Harda K, Nagashima K, Nakao K, Kato A (1971) Hydroxylellestadite, a new apatite from Chichibu Mine, Saitama Prefecture, Japan, American Mineralogist, 56, 1507-1518   [view file]

Rouse R C, Dunn P J (1982) A contribution to the crystal chemistry of ellestadite and silicate sulfate apatites, American Mineralogist, 67, 90-96   [view file]

Hughes J M, Drexler J W (1991) Cation substitution in the apatite tetrahedral site: crystal structures of type hydroxylellestadite and type fermorite, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1991, 327-336

Jambor J L, Puziewicz J, Roberts A C (1995) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 80, 1328-1333   [view file]

Onac B P, Effenberger H, Ettinger K, Panzaru S C (2006) Hydroxylellestadite from Cioclovina Cave (Romania): Microanalytical, structural, and vibrational spectroscopy data, American Mineralogist, 91, 1927-1931   [view file]

Burke E A J (2008) Tidying up mineral names: an IMA-CNMNC scheme for suffixes, hyphens and diacritical marks, The Mineralogical Record, 39, 131-135   [view file]

Pasero M, Kampf A R, Ferraris C, Pekov I V, Rakovan J R, White T J (2010) Nomenclature of the apatite supergroup minerals, European Journal of Mineralogy, 22, 163-179   [view file]

Banno Y, Miyawaki R, Momma K, Bunno M (2016) A CO3-bearing member of the hydroxylapatite-hydroxylellestadite series from Tadano, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan: CO3-SO4 substitution in the apatite-ellestadite series, Mineralogical Magazine, 80, 363-370