Manganoneptunite R060901
Name: Manganoneptunite
RRUFF ID: R060901
Ideal Chemistry: KNa2LiMn2+2Ti2Si8O24
Locality: Mont St. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
Source: Royal Ontario Museum M52451 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Dark reddish-brown single crystal cleavage fragment.
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis
Mineral Group: [ Neptunite (4) ]
Quick search: [ All Manganoneptunite samples (2) ]
CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R060901.2
Sample Description: Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry: (K0.92Na0.08)Σ=1Na2.00Li1.00(Mn2+1.44Zn0.25Mg0.20Fe3+0.11)Σ=2(Ti1.89Fe3+0.08Al0.03)Σ=2Si8.00O24 ; Li not measured but estimated by difference and stoichiometry; Fe as Fe3 by charge balance
Microprobe Data File: [ Download Excel File ]
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: R060901
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: R060901.1
Sample Description: Powder
Cell Refinement Output: a: 16.4671(5)Å    b: 12.523(1)Å    c: 10.0245(8)Å
alpha: 90°    beta: 115.439(3)°    gamma: 90°   Volume: 1866.8(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.

  File Type Information Close
Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

DOWNLOADS:

Cell Refinement Data
Cell Refinement Output Data
DIF File
X-ray Data (XY - Processed)
RRUFF File
X-ray Data (XY - RAW) View Graph
RRUFF File
X Min:    X Max:    X Sort:
REFERENCES for Manganoneptunite

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]

Fersman A E (1923) The Chibina Massiv of Kola Island, Transactions of the Northern Scientific and Economic Expedition, 16, 16–73   [view file]

Kurbatov S M (1923) Analyse d'une neptounite manganifère des Monts Chibines en Laponie russe, Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences de Russie, 1, 59-60   [view file]

Fersman A E (1926) Minerals of the Kola Peninsula, American Mineralogist, 11, 289-299   [view file]

Foshag W F, Schairer J F (1927) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 12, 95-98   [view file]

Borisov S V, Klevtsova R F, Bakakin V V, Belov N V (1966) The crystal structure of neptunite, Soviet Physics - Crystallography, 10, 684-689   [view file]

Zolotarev A A, Krivovichev S V, Yakovenchuk V N (2007) Refinement of the mangan-neptunite crystal structure, Geology of Ore Deposits, 49, 835-838   [view file]

Zolotarev A A, Krivovichev S V, Yakovenchuk V N (2007) Refinement of the mangan-neptunite structure, Zapiski Rossiiskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchetstva, 136, issue 1 118-123   [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]