Cobaltomenite R070352
Name: Cobaltomenite
RRUFF ID: R070352
Ideal Chemistry: Co(Se4+O3)·2H2O
Locality: Temple Mountain, San Rafael District (San Rafael Swell), Emery County, Utah, USA
Source: Michael Scott S102060 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Purple druse of tabular crystals
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction.
Mineral Group: [ Cobaltomenite (4) ]
Quick search: [ All Cobaltomenite samples (2) ]
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: R070352
Wavelength:
Sample Description: Unoriented sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW
DOWNLOADS:

Raman Data (RAW) View Graph
RRUFF File
POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R070352.9
Sample Description: Single crystal, powder profile is calculated
Cell Refinement Output: a: 6.4931(9)Å    b: 8.819(1)Å    c: 7.610(1)Å
alpha: 90°    beta: 98.890(8)°    gamma: 90°   Volume: 430.6(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 Cobaltomenite

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]

Bertrand E (1882) Sur la molybdoménite (sélénite de plomb), la cobaltoménite (sélénite de cobalt) et l´acide sélénieux de Cacheuta (La Plata), Bulletin de la Société Minéralogique de France, 5, 90-92   [view file]

Fleischer M (1963) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 48, 1178-1184   [view file]

Sturman B D, Mandarino J A (1974) The ahlfeldite-cobaltomenite series, The Canadian Mineralogist, 12, 304-307   [view file]

Wildner M (1990) Crystal structure refinements of synthetic cobaltomenite (CoSeO3·2H2O) and ahlfeldite (NiSeO3·2H2O), Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1990, 353-362

Charykova M V, Krivovichev V G, Lelet M I, Yakovenko O S, Suleimanov E V, Depmeier W, Semenova V V, Zorina M L (2014) A calorimetric and thermodynamic investigation of the synthetic analogs of cobaltomenite, CoSeO3·2H2O, and ahlfeldite, NiSeO3·2H2O, American Mineralogist, 99, 742-748

Hazen R M, Hystad G, Golden J J, Hummer D R, Liu C, Downs R T, Morrison S M, Ralph J, Grew E S (2017) Cobalt mineral ecology, American Mineralogist, 102, 108-116   [view file]