Pyrosmalite-(Fe) R050158
Name: Pyrosmalite-(Fe)
RRUFF ID: R050158
Ideal Chemistry: Fe2+8Si6O15(OH)10
Locality: Burguillos del Cerro, Badajos, Spain
Source: Jim McGlasson
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Green subhedral crystal aggregate
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis
Mineral Groups: [ Pyrosmalite (9) ] [ Clay (86) ]
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CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R050158.2
Sample Description: Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry: (Fe2+0.92Mn2+0.06Mg0.02)8Si6O15(OH0.83Cl0.17)10
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RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Sample is oriented, mounted onto a pin and polished
Pin ID: L00098
Orientation: Laser parallel to  c*  (0 0 1).     Fiducial mark perpendicular to laser is parallel to  a   [1 0 0].
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RRUFF ID: R050158
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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: R050158.1
Sample Description: Powder
Instrument settings: SensIR Durascope on a Nicolet Magna 860 FTIR
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RRUFF ID: R050158.1
Sample Description: Powder
Instrument settings: PIKE GladiATR - Far-IR on a Nicolet Magna 860 FTIR
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POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R050158.1
Sample Description: Powder
Cell Refinement Output: a: 13.3189(8)Å    b: 13.3189(8)Å    c: 7.0942(3)Å
alpha: 90.0°    beta: 90.0°    gamma: 120.0°   Volume: 1089.9(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 Pyrosmalite-(Fe)

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]

Karsten D L G (1808) Pyrosmalith, in Mineralogische Tabellen 2nd Heinrich August Rottman Berlin 103-103   [view file]

Moll C E F (1808) Vorläufige Notiz von einigen neuen nordischen Fossilien; von dem Herrn Cammersecretär Hausmann zu Braunschweig mitgetheilt. 1. Pirodmalit, in Efemeriden der Berg und Hüttenkunde Steinischen Buchhandlung Nürnberg 390-393   [view file]

Zambonini F (1901) Pyrosmalith aus der Bjelke-Grube (Nordmarken), Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 34, 554-561   [view file]

Goßner B, Mußgnug F (1931) Die molekulare einheit von pyrosmalith., Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 76, 525-528   [view file]

Hey M H (1956) The empirical unit-cell contents of the friedelite family, American Mineralogist, 41, 134-138   [view file]

Kayupova M M (1964) Pyrosmalite from the Dzhumart and Ushkatyn deposits, central Kazakhstan, Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR Earth Science Sections, 159, 82-85   [view file]

Kashaev A A (1968) The crystal structure of pyrosmalite, Soviet Physics - Crystallography, 12, 923-924   [view file]

Takéuchi Y, Kawada I, Irimaziri S, Sadanaga R (1969) The crystal structure and polytypism of manganpyrosmalite, Mineralogical Journal, 5, 450-467   [view file]

Kato T, Takéuchi Y (1983) The pyrosmalite group of minerals. I. Structure refinement of manganpyrosmalite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 21, 1-6   [view file]

Takéuchi Y, Ozawa T, Takahata T (1983) The pyrosmalite group of minerals III. Derivation of polytypes, The Canadian Mineralogist, 21, 19-27   [view file]

Vaughan J P (1986) The iron end-member of the pyrosmalite series from the Pegmont lead-zinc deposit, Queensland, Mineralogical Magazine, 50, 527-531   [view file]

Vaughan J P (1987) Ferropyrosmalite and nomenclature in the pyrosmalite series, Mineralogical Magazine, 51, 174-174   [view file]

Jambor J L, Bladh K W, Ercit T S, Grice J D, Grew E S (1988) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 73, 927-935   [view file]

Pan Y, Fleet M E, Barnett R L, Chen Y (1993) Pyrosmalite in Canadian Precambrian sulfide deposits: mineral chemistry, petrogenesis and significance, The Canadian Mineralogist, 31, 695-710   [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]

Yang H, Downs R T, Yang Y W, Allen W H (2011) Pyrosmalite-(Fe), Fe8Si6O15(OH,Cl)10, Acta Crystallographica, E68, i7-i8   [view file]