Guilleminite R090007
Name: Guilleminite
RRUFF ID: R090007
Ideal Chemistry: Ba(UO2)3(Se4+O3)2O2·3H2O
Locality: Musonoi mine, Kolwezi, Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Source: William W. Pinch
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Yellow transparent thin tabular crystals removed from the structure type specimen of Cooper & Hawthorne (1995) study
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction.
Mineral Group: [ Guilleminite (3) ]
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
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RRUFF ID: R090007
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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: R090007.9
Sample Description: Single crystal, powder profile is calculated
Cell Refinement Output: a: 7.084(2)Å    b: 7.296(4)Å    c: 16.887(9)Å
alpha: 90°    beta: 90°    gamma: 90°   Volume: 873(1)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 Guilleminite

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]

Fleischer M (1965) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 50, 2096-2111   [view file]

Pierrot R, Toussaint J, Verbeek T (1965) La guilleminite, une nouvelle espèce minérale, Bulletin de la Société Française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie, 88, 132-135   [view file]

Cooper M A, Hawthorne F C (1995) The crystal structure of guilleminite, a hydrated Ba–U–Se sheet structure, The Canadian Mineralogist, 33, 1103-1109   [view file]

Jambor J L, Pertsev N N, Roberts A C (1996) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 81, 766-770   [view file]

Cooper M A, Hawthorne F C (2001) Structure topology and hydrogen bonding in marthozite, Cu2+[(UO2)3(SeO3)2O2](H2O)8, a comparison with guilleminite, Ba[(UO2)3(SeO3)2O2](H2O)3, The Canadian Mineralogist, 39, 797-807   [view file]