R130214 - RRUFF Database: Raman, X-ray, Infrared, and Chemistry

Ilmenite R130214

Name: Ilmenite
RRUFF ID: R130214
Ideal Chemistry: Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃
Locality: Mont St-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
Source: Don Doell [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Black lustrous tabular crystals
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by single crystal X-ray diffraction.

Mineral Group: [ Corundum (38) ]

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RAMAN SPECTRUM

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Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

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BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS

RRUFF ID:

R130214

Wavelength:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

Instrument settings:

Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW

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POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R130214.9

Sample Description:

Single crystal, powder profile is calculated

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 5.127(2)Å b: 5.127(2)Å c: 14.105(5)Å
alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 120° Volume: 321.13(3)Å³ Crystal System: hexagonal

File Type Information

Calculated diffraction file.

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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Ilmenite
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]
Kupffer A T (1827) Ilmenit, ein neues Fossil (Sammt neuen Spielarten des Zirkon und Gadolinit) aus Sibirien; beschrieben, Archiv für die Gesammte Naturlehre, 10, 1-13 [view file]
Brøgger W C (1906) Die Mineralien der Südnorwegischen Granitpegmatitgänge: Blomstrandin (und Priorit), Skrifter udgivne af Videnskabs-Selskabet i Christiania, 1906, issue 6 1-162 [view file]
Hutton C O (1950) Studies of heavy detrital minerals, Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 61, 635-710 [view file]
Pajari G E (1966) Abstract of paper presented at the eleventh meeting: The variation of magnetite–ulvospinel and hematite–ilmenite compositions in a differentiated alkaline intrusive, The Canadian Mineralogist, 8, 670-670 [view file]
Grey I E, Reid A F (1975) The structure of pseudorutile and its role in the natural alteration of ilmenite, American Mineralogist, 60, 898-906 [view file]
Bøe P (1978) Ilmenite exsolution intergrowths in chromite from Raisduoddar—Hal'di, Troms, Norway, The Canadian Mineralogist, 16, 597-600 [view file]
D’arco P, Maury R C (1981) Comparative geothermometry of some magnetite–ilmenite–orthopyroxene–clinopyroxene associations from volcanic rocks, The Canadian Mineralogist, 19, 461-467 [view file]
Spear F S (1982) Phase equilibria of amphibolites from the post pond volcanics, Mt. cube quadrangle, Vermont, Journal of Petrology, 23, 383-426
Reynolds I M (1984) Tectonically deformed ilmenite in titaniferous iron ores of the Mambula Complex, Zululand, South Africa, The Canadian Mineralogist, 22, 411-416 [view file]
Cawthorn R G, Groves D I, Marchant T (1985) Magnesian ilmenite: clue to high-Mg parental magma of the Insizwa complex, Tranksei, The Canadian Mineralogist, 23, 609-618 [view file]
Naslund H R (1987) Lamellae of baddeleyite and Fe–Cr-spinel in ilmenite from the Basistoppen sill, east Greenland, The Canadian Mineralogist, 25, 91-96 [view file]
Cassidy K F, Groves D I, Binns R A (1988) Manganoan ilmenite formed during regional metamorphism of Archean mafic and ultramafic rocks from Western Australia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 26, 999-1012 [view file]
Cawthorn R G, Maske S, De Wet M, Groves D I, Cassidy K F (1988) Contrasting magma types in the Mount Ayliff intrusioin (Insizwa complex), Transkei: evidence from ilmenite compositions, The Canadian Mineralogist, 26, 145-160 [view file]
Clarke D B, MacKay R M (1990) An ilmenite-garnet-clinopyroxene nodule from Matsoku: evidence for oxide-rich liquid immiscibility in kimberlites?, The Canadian Mineralogist, 28, 229-239 [view file]
Whitney D L, Hirschmann M, Miller M G (1993) Zincian ilmenite – ecandrewsite from a pelitic schist, Death Valley, California, and the paragenesis of (Zn,Fe)TiO₃ solid solution in metamorphic rocks, The Canadian Mineralogist, 31, 425-436 [view file]
Jiang S Y, Palmer M R, Slack J F (1996) Mn-rich ilmenite from the Sullivan Pb–Zn–Ag deposit, British Columbia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 34, 29-36 [view file]
Chakhmouradian A R, Mitchell R H (1999) Niobian ilmenite, hydroxylapatite and sulfatian monazite: alternative hosts for incompatible elements in calcite kimberlite from Internatsional'naya, Yakutia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 37, 1177-1189 [view file]
Waerenborgh J C, Figueiras J, Mateus A, Gonçalves M (2002) Nature and mechanism of ilmenite alteration: a Mössbauer and X-ray diffraction study of oxidized ilmenite from the Beja-Acebuches Ophiolite Complex (SE Portugal), Mineralogical Magazine, 66, 421-430 [view file]
Kretz R (2003) Dendritic magnetite and ilmenite in 590 Ma Grenville dikes near Otter Lake, Quebec, Canada, The Canadian Mineralogist, 41, 1049-1059 [view file]
Clarke D B, Carruzzo S (2007) Assimilation of country-rock ilmenite and rutile in the South Mountain batholith, Nova Scotia, Canada, The Canadian Mineralogist, 45, 31-42 [view file]
Yamanaka T, Komatsu Y, Nomori H (2007) Electron density distribution of FeTiO₃ ilmenite under high pressure analyzed by MEM using single crystal diffraction intensities, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 34, 307-318
Nishio-Hamane D, Zhang M, Yagi T, Ma Y (2012) High-pressure and high-temperature phase transitions in FeTiO₃ and a new dense FeTi₃O₇ structure, American Mineralogist, 97, 568-572 [view file]
Alboom A V, Grave E D (2016) Temperature dependences of the hyperfine parameters of Fe²⁺ in FeTiO₃ as determined by ⁵⁷Fe-Mössbauer spectroscopy, American Mineralogist, 101, 735-743
Brok E, Frandsen C, Lefmann K, McEnroe S, Robinson P, Burton B P, Hansen T C, Harrison R (2017) Spin orientation in solid solution hematite-ilmenite, American Mineralogist, 102, 1234-1243
Giebel R J, Gauert C D K, Marks M A W, Costin G, Markl G (2017) Multi-stage formation of REE minerals in the Palabora Carbonatite Complex, South Africa, American Mineralogist, 102, 1218-1233
Bowles J F W, Suárez S, Prichard H M, Fisher P C (2018) The mineralogy, geochemistry and genesis of the alluvial platinum-group minerals of the Freetown Layered Complex, Sierra Leone, Mineralogical Magazine, 82, S223-S246
Tokle L, Robertson K M (2019) X-ray diffraction calibration of the Fe²⁺–Mg²⁺ solid solution of ilmenite, with application to lunar basalts, European Journal of Mineralogy, 31, 473-483

REFERENCES for Ilmenite

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]

Kupffer A T (1827) Ilmenit, ein neues Fossil (Sammt neuen Spielarten des Zirkon und Gadolinit) aus Sibirien; beschrieben, Archiv für die Gesammte Naturlehre, 10, 1-13 [view file]

Brøgger W C (1906) Die Mineralien der Südnorwegischen Granitpegmatitgänge: Blomstrandin (und Priorit), Skrifter udgivne af Videnskabs-Selskabet i Christiania, 1906, issue 6 1-162 [view file]

Hutton C O (1950) Studies of heavy detrital minerals, Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 61, 635-710 [view file]

Pajari G E (1966) Abstract of paper presented at the eleventh meeting: The variation of magnetite–ulvospinel and hematite–ilmenite compositions in a differentiated alkaline intrusive, The Canadian Mineralogist, 8, 670-670 [view file]

Grey I E, Reid A F (1975) The structure of pseudorutile and its role in the natural alteration of ilmenite, American Mineralogist, 60, 898-906 [view file]

Bøe P (1978) Ilmenite exsolution intergrowths in chromite from Raisduoddar—Hal'di, Troms, Norway, The Canadian Mineralogist, 16, 597-600 [view file]

D’arco P, Maury R C (1981) Comparative geothermometry of some magnetite–ilmenite–orthopyroxene–clinopyroxene associations from volcanic rocks, The Canadian Mineralogist, 19, 461-467 [view file]

Spear F S (1982) Phase equilibria of amphibolites from the post pond volcanics, Mt. cube quadrangle, Vermont, Journal of Petrology, 23, 383-426

Reynolds I M (1984) Tectonically deformed ilmenite in titaniferous iron ores of the Mambula Complex, Zululand, South Africa, The Canadian Mineralogist, 22, 411-416 [view file]

Cawthorn R G, Groves D I, Marchant T (1985) Magnesian ilmenite: clue to high-Mg parental magma of the Insizwa complex, Tranksei, The Canadian Mineralogist, 23, 609-618 [view file]

Naslund H R (1987) Lamellae of baddeleyite and Fe–Cr-spinel in ilmenite from the Basistoppen sill, east Greenland, The Canadian Mineralogist, 25, 91-96 [view file]

Cassidy K F, Groves D I, Binns R A (1988) Manganoan ilmenite formed during regional metamorphism of Archean mafic and ultramafic rocks from Western Australia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 26, 999-1012 [view file]

Cawthorn R G, Maske S, De Wet M, Groves D I, Cassidy K F (1988) Contrasting magma types in the Mount Ayliff intrusioin (Insizwa complex), Transkei: evidence from ilmenite compositions, The Canadian Mineralogist, 26, 145-160 [view file]

Clarke D B, MacKay R M (1990) An ilmenite-garnet-clinopyroxene nodule from Matsoku: evidence for oxide-rich liquid immiscibility in kimberlites?, The Canadian Mineralogist, 28, 229-239 [view file]

Whitney D L, Hirschmann M, Miller M G (1993) Zincian ilmenite – ecandrewsite from a pelitic schist, Death Valley, California, and the paragenesis of (Zn,Fe)TiO₃ solid solution in metamorphic rocks, The Canadian Mineralogist, 31, 425-436 [view file]

Jiang S Y, Palmer M R, Slack J F (1996) Mn-rich ilmenite from the Sullivan Pb–Zn–Ag deposit, British Columbia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 34, 29-36 [view file]

Chakhmouradian A R, Mitchell R H (1999) Niobian ilmenite, hydroxylapatite and sulfatian monazite: alternative hosts for incompatible elements in calcite kimberlite from Internatsional'naya, Yakutia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 37, 1177-1189 [view file]

Waerenborgh J C, Figueiras J, Mateus A, Gonçalves M (2002) Nature and mechanism of ilmenite alteration: a Mössbauer and X-ray diffraction study of oxidized ilmenite from the Beja-Acebuches Ophiolite Complex (SE Portugal), Mineralogical Magazine, 66, 421-430 [view file]

Kretz R (2003) Dendritic magnetite and ilmenite in 590 Ma Grenville dikes near Otter Lake, Quebec, Canada, The Canadian Mineralogist, 41, 1049-1059 [view file]

Clarke D B, Carruzzo S (2007) Assimilation of country-rock ilmenite and rutile in the South Mountain batholith, Nova Scotia, Canada, The Canadian Mineralogist, 45, 31-42 [view file]

Yamanaka T, Komatsu Y, Nomori H (2007) Electron density distribution of FeTiO₃ ilmenite under high pressure analyzed by MEM using single crystal diffraction intensities, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 34, 307-318

Nishio-Hamane D, Zhang M, Yagi T, Ma Y (2012) High-pressure and high-temperature phase transitions in FeTiO₃ and a new dense FeTi₃O₇ structure, American Mineralogist, 97, 568-572 [view file]

Alboom A V, Grave E D (2016) Temperature dependences of the hyperfine parameters of Fe²⁺ in FeTiO₃ as determined by ⁵⁷Fe-Mössbauer spectroscopy, American Mineralogist, 101, 735-743

Brok E, Frandsen C, Lefmann K, McEnroe S, Robinson P, Burton B P, Hansen T C, Harrison R (2017) Spin orientation in solid solution hematite-ilmenite, American Mineralogist, 102, 1234-1243

Giebel R J, Gauert C D K, Marks M A W, Costin G, Markl G (2017) Multi-stage formation of REE minerals in the Palabora Carbonatite Complex, South Africa, American Mineralogist, 102, 1218-1233

Bowles J F W, Suárez S, Prichard H M, Fisher P C (2018) The mineralogy, geochemistry and genesis of the alluvial platinum-group minerals of the Freetown Layered Complex, Sierra Leone, Mineralogical Magazine, 82, S223-S246

Tokle L, Robertson K M (2019) X-ray diffraction calibration of the Fe²⁺–Mg²⁺ solid solution of ilmenite, with application to lunar basalts, European Journal of Mineralogy, 31, 473-483