Important Update News

The RRUFF Project has been migrated to RRUFF.net. Please update your bookmarks immediately, if you have not done so.

The data on this website is already three years out of date, and the entire website will be taken offline before the end of the year.

We are grateful to NASA for the funding of this effort.

Smithsonite R040051

Browse Search Results 
<< Previous |  Back to Search Results |  Next >> 
Record 2 of 2  


Name: Smithsonite
RRUFF ID: R040051
Ideal Chemistry: Zn(CO3)
Locality: Berg Aukas mine, Grootfontein, Namibia
Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 12032 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Yellowish brown botryoidal groups
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis
Mineral Group: [ Calcite (36) ]
Quick search: [ All Smithsonite samples (2) ]
CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R040051.2
Sample Description: Microprobe Fragment. Zoned with light and dark bands and patches.
Measured Chemistry: (Zn0.94Ca0.02Mg0.02)C1.01O3
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
RRUFF ID:
Sample Description: Sample is oriented, mounted onto a pin and polished
Pin ID: M00001
Orientation: Laser parallel to  -a*  (-1 0 0).     Fiducial mark perpendicular to laser is parallel to  c   [0 0 1].
DOWNLOADS:

  To download sample data,
  please select a specific
  orientation angle.

Raman Mode Analysis
Raman Mode Analysis computed in collaboration with Bilbao Crystallographic Server
Direction of polarization of laser relative to fiducial mark:
X Min:    X Max:    X Sort:
BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS
RRUFF ID: R040051
Wavelength:
Sample Description: Unoriented sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW
DOWNLOADS:

Raman Data (RAW) View Graph
RRUFF File
INFRARED SPECTRUM (Attenuated Total Reflectance) 
RRUFF ID: R040051.1
Instrument settings: SensIR Durascope on a Nicolet Magna 860 FTIR
Resolution:
DOWNLOADS:

Infrared Data (Processed)
RRUFF File
X Min:    X Max:    X Sort:
POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R040051.1
Sample Description: Powder
Cell Refinement Output: a: 4.6560(2)Å    b: 4.6560(2)Å    c: 15.054(1)Å
alpha: 90.°    beta: 90.°    gamma: 120.°   Volume: 282.64(2)Å3    Crystal System: hexagonal
  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 Smithsonite

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]

Beudant F S (1832) Smithsonite, zinc carbonaté, in Traité Élémentaire de Minéralogie, 2nd Edition Paris 354-357   [view file]

Rutt H N, Nicola J H (1974) Raman spectra of carbonates of calcite structure, Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics, 7, 4522-4528

Effenberger H, Mereiter K, Zemann J (1981) Crystal structure refinements of magnesite, calcite, rhodochrosite, siderite, smithonite, and dolomite, with discussion of some aspects of the stereochemistry of calcite type carbonates, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 156, 233-243   [view file]

Robie R A, Haselton H T, Hemingway B S (1989) Heat capacites and entropies at 298.15 K of MgTiO3 (geikielite), ZnO (zincite), and ZnCO3 (smithsonite), Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, 21, 743-749

Frost R L, Hales M C, Wain D L (2008) Raman spectroscopy of smithsonite, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 39, 108-114

Liu X, Lu X, Liu X, Zhou H (2015) Atomistic simulation on mixing thermodynamics of calcite-smithsonite solid solutions, American Mineralogist, 100, 172-180

Wang M, Shi G, Qin J, Bai Q (2018) Thermal behaviour of calcite-structure carbonates: a powder X-ray diffraction study between 83 and 618 K, European Journal of Mineralogy, 30, 939-949