Fluorellestadite R130124



Name: Fluorellestadite
RRUFF ID: R130124
Ideal Chemistry: Ca5(SiO4)1.5(SO4)1.5F
Locality: Kopeisk, South Urals, Russia
Source: Rock Currier [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Green to blue acicular or hexagonal prismatic crystals, associated with opaque nenadkevichite.
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by single crystal X-ray diffraction.
Mineral Group: [ Apatite (56) ]
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
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RRUFF ID: R130124
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW
POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R130124.9
Sample Description: Single crystal, powder profile is calculated
Cell Refinement Output: a: 9.509(1)Å    b: 9.509(1)Å    c: 6.9920(7)Å
alpha: 90°    beta: 90°    gamma: 120°   Volume: 541.98(8)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 Fluorellestadite

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]

McConnell D (1937) The substitution of SiO4- and SO4-groups for PO4-groups in the apatite structure; ellestadite, the end-member, American Mineralogist, 22, 977-986   [view file]

Rouse R C, Dunn P J (1982) A contribution to the crystal chemistry of ellestadite and silicate sulfate apatites, American Mineralogist, 67, 90-96   [view file]

Chesnokov B V, Bazhenova L F, Bushmakin A F (1987) Fluorellestadite Ca10[(SO4),(SiO4)]6F2 - a new mineral, Zapiski Vsesoyuznogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva, 116, 743-746   [view file]

Jambor J L, Puziewicz J (1989) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 74, 500-505   [view file]

Pajares I, De la Torre A G, Martínez-Ramírez S, Puertas F, Blanco-Varela M T, Aranda M A G (2002) Quantitative analysis of mineralized white Portland clinkers: the structure of fluorellestadite, Powder Diffraction, 17, 281-286

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]

Pasero M, Kampf A R, Ferraris C, Pekov I V, Rakovan J R, White T J (2010) Nomenclature of the apatite supergroup minerals, European Journal of Mineralogy, 22, 163-179   [view file]