Triphylite R050366
Name: Triphylite
RRUFF ID: R050366
Ideal Chemistry: LiFe2+(PO4)
Locality: Cornelia mine, Hagendorf, Bavaria, Germany
Source: Marcus Origlieri
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Bluish gray massive associated with brown zwieselite R050279
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis
Mineral Group: [ Olivine (61) ]
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CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R050366.2
Sample Description: Microprobe fragment
Measured Chemistry: Li1.00(Fe2+0.80Mn2+0.20)Σ=1P1.00O4 ; Li not measured but estimated by difference and charge balance.
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
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RRUFF ID: R050366
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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: R050366.1
Instrument settings: SensIR Durascope on a Nicolet Magna 860 FTIR
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POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R050366.1
Sample Description: Powder
Cell Refinement Output: a: 4.6981(6)Å    b: 10.354(1)Å    c: 6.0220(5)Å
alpha: 90.°    beta: 90.°    gamma: 90.°   Volume: 292.95(3)Å3    Crystal System: orthorhombic
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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Triphylite

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]

Fuchs J N (1834) Ueber ein neues Mineral (Triphylin), Journal für Praktische Chemie, 3, 98-104   [view file]

Björling C O, Westgren A (1938) Minerals of the Varusträsk Pegmatite. IX. X-ray studies of triphylite, varulite and their oxidation products, Geologiska Föreningens i Stockholm Förhandlingar, 60, 67-72   [view file]

Björling C O, Westgren A (1938) Minerals of the Varuträsk Pegmatite, Geologiska Föreningens i Stockholm Förhandlingar, 60, 67-72   [view file]

Fontan P F, Huvelin P, Orliac M, Permingeat F (1976) La ferrisicklérite des pegmatites de sidi bou othmane (Jebilet, Maroc) et le groupe des minéraux à structure de triphylite, Bulletin de la Société Française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie, 99, 274-286   [view file]

Fransolet A M (1977) Intercroissances et inclusions dans les associations graftonite-sarcopside-triphylite, Bulletin de la Société Française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie, 100, 198-207   [view file]

Yakubovich O V, Simonov M A, Belov N V (1977) The crystal structure of a synthetic triphylite LiFe[PO4], Soviet Physics - Doklady, 22, 347-348

Deganello S (1978) The crystal structure of triphylite after oxidation at 670°C, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1978, 128-134

Fransolet A-M, Antenucci D, Speetjens J-M, Tarte P (1984) An X-ray determinative method for the divalent cation ratio in the triphylite-lithiophilite series, Mineralogical Magazine, 48, 373-381   [view file]

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Wise M A, Černý P (1990) Beusite-triphylite intergrowths from the Yellowknife pegmatite field, Northwest Territories, The Canadian Mineralogist, 28, 133-139   [view file]

Streltsov V A, Belokoneva E L, Tsirelson V G, Hansen N K (1993) Multipole analysis of the electron density in triphylite, LiFePO4, using X-ray diffraction data, Acta Crystallographica, B49, 147-153

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]

Losey A, Rakovan J, Hughes J M, Francis C A, Dyar M D (2004) Structural variation in the lithiophilite-triphylite series and other olivine-group structures, The Canadian Mineralogist, 42, 1105-1115   [view file]

Fehr K Y, Hochleitner R, Schmidbauer E, Schneider J (2007) Mineralogy, Mössbauer spectra and electrical conductivity of triphylite Li(Fe2+,Mn2+)PO4, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 34, 485-494

Dyar M D, Jawin E R, Breves E, Marchand G, Nelms M, Lane M D, Mertzman S A, Bish D L and Bishop J L (2014) Mössbauer parameters of iron in phosphate minerals: Implications for interpretation of martian data, American Mineralogist, 99, 914-942   [view file]

Roda-Robles E, Pesquera A, García de Madinabeitia S , Gil Ibarguchi J, Nizamoff J, Simmons W, Falster A, Galliski M A (2014) On the geochemical character of primary Fe-Mn phosphates belonging to the triphylite-lithiophilite, graftonite-beusite, and triplite-zwieselite series: first results and implications for pegmatite petrogenesis, The Canadian Mineralogist, 52, 321-335   [view file]

Birch W D (2018) Minerals in the arrojadite, alluaudite and jahnsite-whiteite groups from the Mount Wills pegmatite field, Victoria, Australia, European Journal of Mineralogy, 30, 635-645

Lyalina L M, Selivanova E A, Hatert F (2023) Nomenclature of the triphylite group of minerals, European Journal of Mineralogy, 35, 427-437   [view file]