Colemanite R050102


 Name: Colemanite
RRUFF ID: R050102
Ideal Chemistry: CaB3O4(OH)3·H2O
Locality: Kramer deposit, Boron, Kern County, California, USA
Source: Rock Currier
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Colorless prismatic to tabular crystals
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis
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CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R050102.2
Sample Description: Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry: Ca1.00B3.00O4(OH)3·H2O ; trace amounts of Na; B assumed by stoichiometry and charge balance.
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RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Sample is oriented, mounted onto a pin and polished.
Pin ID: L00081
Orientation: Laser parallel to  a*  (1 0 0).     Fiducial mark perpendicular to laser is parallel to  b   [0 1 0].
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BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS
RRUFF ID: R050102
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW
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INFRARED SPECTRUM (Attenuated Total Reflectance) 
RRUFF ID: R050102.1
Instrument settings: SensIR Durascope on a Nicolet Magna 860 FTIR
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POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R050102.1
Sample Description: Powder
Cell Refinement Output: a: 8.7231(8)Å    b: 11.2564(6)Å    c: 6.0973(4)Å
alpha: 90°    beta: 110.137(6)°    gamma: 90°   Volume: 562.10(5)Å3    Crystal System: monoclinic
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Calculated diffraction file.

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

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

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REFERENCES for Colemanite

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]

Hanks H G (1883) Report on the borax deposits of California and Nevada, Borax minerals and those containing boracic acid in small quantities, 3, 81-89   [view file]

Jackson A W (1884) On colemanite, a new borate of lime, American Journal of Science, 28, 447-448   [view file]

Meixner, H (1953) Einige Boratminerale (Colemanit und Tertschit, ein neues Mineral) aus der Türkei, Fortschritte der Mineralogie, 31, 39-42

Burns P C, Hawthorne F C (1993) Hydrogen bonding in colemanite: an x-ray and structure-energy study, The Canadian Mineralogist, 31, 297-304   [view file]

Shannon R D, Shannon R C, Medenbach O, Fischer R X (2002) Refractive index and dispersion of fluorides and oxides, Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data, 31, 931-970   [view file]

Lin J, Pan Y, Chen N, Mao M, Li R, Feng R (2011) Arsenic incorporation in colemanite from borate deposits: Data from ICP-MS, μ-SXRF, XAFS and EPR analyses, The Canadian Mineralogist, 49, 809-822   [view file]