Chloritoid R050334


 Name: Chloritoid
RRUFF ID: R050334
Ideal Chemistry: Fe2+Al2O(SiO4)(OH)2
Locality: Selçuk, Mugla Province, Turkey
Source: George Rossman 2341
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Dark greenish-black foliated cleavage fragments
Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis.
Mineral Group: [ Chloritoid (3) ]
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CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R050334.2
Sample Description: Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry: (Fe2+1.84Mg0.12Mn0.04)(Al3.95Fe3+0.05)Si2.00O10(OH)4 ; H not measured but estimated by difference and stoichiometry
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RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Sample is oriented and mounted on a pin
Pin ID: M00341
Orientation: Laser parallel to  b*  (0 1 0).     Fiducial mark perpendicular to laser is parallel to  -c   [0 0 -1].
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RRUFF ID: R050334
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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: R050334.9
Sample Description: Single crystal, powder profile is calculated
Cell Refinement Output: a: 9.482(1)Å    b: 5.4824(8)Å    c: 18.158(3)Å
alpha: 90°    beta: 101.770(7)°    gamma: 90°   Volume: 924.1(3)Å3    Crystal System: monoclinic
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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Chloritoid

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]

Fiedler K G (1832) Lagerstätten des Diaspor, Chloritspath, Pyrophyllit und Monazit, aufgefunden im Ural, Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 25, 322-333   [view file]

Breithaupt J F A (1835) Neue specifische Gewichte von Mineralien und anderen Körpen, Journal für Praktische Chemie, 4, 272-278   [view file]

Rose G (1837) Der Chloritoid, in Mineralogisch-geognostische Reise nach dem Ural, dem Altai und dem Kapischen Meere Sanderschen Buchbandlung Berlin 252-254   [view file]

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

Hietanen A (1951) Chloritoid from Rawlinsville, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, American Mineralogist, 36, 859-868   [view file]

Hanscom R H (1975) Refinement of crystal structure of monoclinic chloritoid, Acta Crystallographica, B31, 780-784

Bailey S W (1977) Report of the I.M.A-I.U.Cr. Joint Committee on Nomenclature, American Mineralogist, 62, 411-415   [view file]

Hanscom R (1980) The structure of triclinic chloritoid and chloritoid polymorphism, American Mineralogist, 65, 534-539   [view file]

Reddy D S, Murty M S (1983) Chloritoid amphibolites from the Pamur area, Andhra Pradesh, southern India, The Canadian Mineralogist, 21, 661-664   [view file]

Ghent E D, Stout M Z, Ferri F (1989) Chloritoid–paragonite–pyrophyllite and stilpnomelane-bearing rocks near Blackwater Mountain, western Rocky Mountains, British Columbia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 27, 59-66   [view file]

Koch-Muller M, Abs-Wurmbach I, Langer K, Shaw C, Wirth R, Gottschalk M (2000) Synthetic and natural Fe-Mg chloritoid: structural, spectroscopic and thermodynamic studies, European Journal of Mineralogy, 12, 293-314