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Wagnerite R070559

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Name: Wagnerite
RRUFF ID: R070559
Ideal Chemistry: Mg2(PO4)F
Locality: Panasqueira mine, near Fundão, Portugal
Source: Royal Ontario Museum M52762 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Pale orange fragments, intimately associated with panasqueiraite
Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis.
Mineral Group: [ Wagnerite (7) ]
Quick search: [ All Wagnerite samples (3) ]
CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R070559.2
Sample Description: Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry: (Mg0.88Fe2+0.63Mn2+0.47Ca0.02)Σ=2(P1.00O4)(F0.93(OH)0.07)Σ=1; = light phase and the dark phase is panasqueiraite: (Ca0.99Mn0.01)Σ=1(Mg0.99Fe0.01)Σ=1P1.00O4(OH); OH estimated by charge balance
Microprobe Data File: [ Download Excel File ]
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented Raman on the primary sample
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RRUFF ID: R070559
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Sample Description: Unoriented Raman on the primary sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW
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POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R070559.9
Sample Description: Single crystal, powder profile is calculated
Cell Refinement Output: a: 11.9960(7)Å    b: 6.4156(3)Å    c: 9.8442(3)Å
alpha: 90°    beta: 107.579(2)°    gamma: 90°   Volume: Å3    Crystal System: monoclinic
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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Wagnerite

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]

Fuchs J N (1821) Ueber den Wagnerit, Journal für Chemie und Physik, 33, 269-277   [view file]

Richmond W E (1940) Crystal chemistry of the phosphates, arsenates and vanadates of the type A2XO4(Z), American Mineralogist, 25, 441-478   [view file]

Coda A, Giuseppetti G, Tadini C, Carobbi S G (1967) The crystal structure of wagnerite, Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 43, 212-224

Auh K, Hummel F A (1974) Solid solution in the wagnerite structure, The Canadian Mineralogist, 12, 346-351   [view file]

Fontan F (1981) La magniotriplite ferrifère du massif des Albères (Pyrènées-Orientales, France). Une nouvelle variété, Bulletin de Minéralogie, 104, 672-676   [view file]

Raade G, Rømming C (1986) The crystal structure of β-Mg2PO4OH, a synthetic hydroxyl analogue of wagnerite, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 177, 15-26   [view file]

Amisano Canesi A, Chiari G (1992) Refinement of very-high-pressure wagnerite, Mg2(PO4)F, European Crystallographic Meeting, 14, 189-189

Leroux M V, Ercit T S (1992) Wagnerite, an accessory phase in cordierite-anthophyllite gneiss from Star Lake, Manitoba, The Canadian Mineralogist, 30, 1161-1165   [view file]

Ren L, Grew E S, Xiong M, Ma Z (2003) Wagnerite-Ma5bc, a new polytype of Mg2(PO4)(F,OH), from granulite-facies paragneiss, Larsemann Hills, Prydz Bay, East Antarctica, The Canadian Mineralogist, 41, 393-411   [view file]

Ren L, Grew E S, Xiong M, Ma Z (2003) Wagnerite-MA5BC from granulite-vacies paragneiss, Larsemann Hills, Prydz Bay, East Antarctica, Geophysical Research Abstracts, 5, 14861-14861

Pekov I V (2007) New minerals from former Soviet Union countries, 1998-2006: Discredited mineral names, Mineralogical Almanac, 11, 55-55   [view file]

Dyar M D, Jawin E R, Breves E, Marchand G, Nelms M, Lane M D, Mertzman S A, Bish D L and Bishop J L (2014) Mössbauer parameters of iron in phosphate minerals: Implications for interpretation of martian data, American Mineralogist, 99, 914-942   [view file]