R080010 - RRUFF Database: Raman, X-ray, Infrared, and Chemistry

Tourmaline R080010

Name: Tourmaline
RRUFF ID: R080010
Ideal Chemistry:
Locality: east Africa
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Owner: RRUFF
Description: Green gemmy fragments, consistent with dravite
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by X-ray diffraction

Mineral Group: [ tourmaline (49) ]

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CHEMISTRY

RRUFF ID:	R080010.2
Sample Description:	Microprobe Fragment

RAMAN SPECTRUM

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Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

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BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS

RRUFF ID:

R080010

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Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

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Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 10% of 150mW

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INFRARED SPECTRUM (Attenuated Total Reflectance)

RRUFF ID:

R080010.1

Sample Description:

Powder

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SensIR Durascope on a Nicolet Magna 860 FTIR

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POWDER DIFFRACTION

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R080010.1

Sample Description:

Powder

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 15.9165(3)Å b: 15.9165(3)Å c: 7.1871(3)Å
alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 120° Volume: 1576.81(7)Å³ Crystal System: hexagonal

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REFERENCES for Tourmaline
Hutton C O (1950) Studies of heavy detrital minerals, Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 61, 635-710 [view file]
Rickard M J (1964) Metamorphic tourmaline overgrowths in the Oak Hill Series of Southern Quebec, The Canadian Mineralogist, 8, 86-91 [view file]
Manning P G (1968) An optical absorption study of the origin of colour and pleochroism in pink and brown tourmalines, The Canadian Mineralogist, 9, 678-690 [view file]
Manning P G (1969) Optical absorption spectra of chromium-bearing tourmaline, black tourmaline and buergerite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 10, 57-70 [view file]
Manning P G (1973) Effect of second–nearest–neighbour interaction on Mn³+ absorption in pink and black tourmalines, The Canadian Mineralogist, 11, 971-977 [view file]
Faye G H, Manning P G, Gosselin J R, Tremblay R J (1974) The optical absorption spectra of tourmaline: Importance of charge-transfer processes, The Canadian Mineralogist, 12, 370-380 [view file]
Fortier S, Donnay G (1975) Schorl refinement showing composition dependence of the tourmaline structure, The Canadian Mineralogist, 13, 173-177 [view file]
Ayuso R A, Brown C E (1984) Manganese-rich red tourmaline from the Fowler talc belt, New York, The Canadian Mineralogist, 22, 327-331 [view file]
Peng M, Mao H, Chen L, Chao E C T (1989) The polarized Raman spectra of tourmaline, Annual Report of the Director Geophysical Laboratory, 1989, 99-105 [view file]
Henry D J, Dutrow B L (1990) Ca substitution in Li-poor aluminous tourmaline, The Canadian Mineralogist, 28, 111-124 [view file]
Samson I M, Sinclair W D (1992) Magmatic hydrothermal fluids and the origin of quartz - tourmaline orbicules in the Seagull batholith, Yukon Territory, The Canadian Mineralogist, 30, 937-954 [view file]
Sinclair W D, Richardson J M (1992) Quartz-tourmaline orbicules in the Seagull batholith, Yukon Territory, The Canadian Mineralogist, 30, 923-935 [view file]
Kazachenko V T, Butsik L A, Sapin V I, Kitaev I V, Barinov N N, Narnov G A (1993) Vanadian—chromian tourmaline and vanadian muscovite in contact–metamorphosed carbonaceous rocks, Primorye, Russia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 31, 347-356 [view file]
MacDonald D J, Hawthorne F C (1995) The crystal chemistry of Si‹—›Al substitution in tourmaline, The Canadian Mineralogist, 33, 849-858 [view file]
Roda E, Pesquera A, Velasco F (1995) Tourmaline in granitic pegmatites and their country rocks, Fregeneda area, Salamanca, Spain, The Canadian Mineralogist, 33, 835-848 [view file]
Lynch G, Ortega J (1997) Hydrothermal alteration and tourmaline-albite equilibria at the Coxheath porphyry Cu-Mo-Au deposit, Nova Scotia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 35, 79-94 [view file]
Federico M, Andreozzi G B, Lucchesi S, Graziani G, César-Mendes J (1998) Compositional variation of tourmaline in the granitic pegmatite dykes of the Cruzeiro mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil, The Canadian Mineralogist, 36, 415-431 [view file]
Von Goerne G, Franz G, Robert J L (1999) Upper thermal stability of tourmaline + quartz in the system MgO–Al₂O₃–SiO₂–B₂O₃–H₂O and Na₂O–MgO–Al₂O₃–SiO₂–B₂O₃–H₂O–HCl in hydrothermal solutions and siliceous melts, The Canadian Mineralogist, 37, 1025-1039 [view file]
Yavuz F, Iskenderoglu A, Jiang S Y (1999) Tourmaline compositions from the Salikvan porphyry Cu–Mo deposit and vicinity, northeastern Turkey, The Canadian Mineralogist, 37, 1007-1023 [view file]
Dutrow B L, Henry D J (2000) Complexly zoned fibrous tourmaline, Cruzeiro mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil: a record of evolving magmatic and hydrothermal fluids, The Canadian Mineralogist, 38, 131-143 [view file]
Ertl A, Hughes J M, Pertlik F, Foit F F, Wright S E, Brandstätter F, Marler B (2002) Polyhedron distortions in tourmaline, The Canadian Mineralogist, 40, 153-162 [view file]
Hawthorne F C (2002) Bond-valence constraints on the chemical composition of tourmaline, The Canadian Mineralogist, 40, 789-797 [view file]
Baksheev I A, Kudryavtseva O E (2004) Nickeloan tourmaline from the Berezovskoe gold deposit, Middle Urals, Russia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 42, 1065-1078 [view file]
Bosi F (2008) Disordering of Fe²⁺ over octahedrally coordinated sites of tourmaline, American Mineralogist, 93, 1647-1653 [view file]
Ertl A, Tillmanns E, Ntaflos T, Francis C, Giester G, Körner W, Hughes J M, Lengauer C, Prem M (2008) Tetrahedrally coordinated boron in Al-rich tourmaline and its relationship to the pressure-temperature conditions of formation, European Journal of Mineralogy, 20, 881-888
Bosi F, Balic-Zunic T, Surour A A (2010) Crystal structure analyses of four tourmaline specimens from the Cleopatra's Mines (Egypt) and Jabal Zalm (Saudi Arabia), and the role of Al in the tourmaline group, American Mineralogist, 95, 510-518 [view file]
Ertl A, Marschall H R, Giester G, Henry D J, Schertl H P, Ntaflos T, Luvizotto G L, Nasdala L, Tillmanns E (2010) Metamorphic ultrahigh-pressure tourmaline: structure, chemistry, and correlations to P-T conditions, American Mineralogist, 95, 1-10 [view file]
Bačík P, Méres Š, Uher P (2011) Vanadium-bearing tourmaline in metacherts from Chvojnica, Slovak Republic: crystal chemistry and multistage evolution, The Canadian Mineralogist, 49, 195-206 [view file]
Henry D J, Dutrow B L (2011) The incorporation of fluorine in tourmaline: internal crystallographic controls or external environmental influences?, The Canadian Mineralogist, 49, 41-56 [view file]
Henry D J, Novák M, Hawthorne F C, Ertl A, Dutrow B L, Uher P, Pezzotta F (2011) Nomenclature of the tourmaline-supergroup minerals, American Mineralogist, 96, 895-913 [view file]
Bačík P, Uher P, Ertl A, Jonsson E, Nysten P, Kanický V, Vaculovič T (2012) Zoned REE-enriched dravite from a granitic pegmatite in Forshammar Bergslagen Province, Sweden: An EMPA, XRD and LA-ICP-MS study, The Canadian Mineralogist, 50, 825-841 [view file]
Bosi F, Reznitskii L, Skogby H (2012) Oxy-chromium-dravite, NaCr₃(Cr₄Mg₂)(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃O, a new mineral species of the tourmaline supergroup, American Mineralogist, 97, 2024-2030 [view file]
Ertl A, Kolitsch U, Dyar M D, Hughes J M, Rossman G R, Pieczka A, Henry D J, Pezzotta F, Prowatke S, Lengauer C L, Körner W, Brandstätter F, Francis C A, Prem M, Tillmanns E (2012) Limitations of Fe²⁺ and Mn²⁺ site occupancy in tourmaline: Evidence from Fe²⁺ - and Mn²⁺ -rich tourmaline, American Mineralogist, 97, 1402-1416 [view file]
Ertl A, Schuster R, Hughes J M, Ludwig T, Meyer H-P, Finger F, Dyar M D, Ruschel K, Rossman G R, Klötzli U, Brandstätter F, Lengauer C L, Tillmanns E (2012) Li-bearing tourmalines in Variscan granitic pegmatites from the Moldanubian nappes, Lower Austria, European Journal of Mineralogy, 24, 695-715
Bosi F, Andreozzi G B, Skogby H, Lussier A J, Abdu Y, Hawthorne F C (2013) Fluor-elbaite, Na(Li_1.5Al_1.5)Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃F, a new mineral species of the tourmaline supergroup, American Mineralogist, 98, 297-303 [view file]
Bosi F, Reznitskii L, Sklyarov E V (2013) Oxy-vanadium-dravite, NaV₃(V₄Mg₂)(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃O: Crystal structure and redefinition of the "vanadium-dravite" tourmaline, American Mineralogist, 98, 501-505 [view file]
Bosi F (2013) Bond-valence constraints around the O1 site of tourmaline, Mineralogical Magazine, 77, 343-351
Bosi F, Reznitskii L, Skogby H, Hålenius U (2014) Vanadio-oxy-chromium-dravite, NaV₃(Cr₄Mg₂)(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃O, a new mineral species of the tourmaline supergroup, American Mineralogist, 99, 1155-1162 [view file]
Dixon A, Cempírek J, Groat L A (2014) Mineralogy and geochemistry of pegmatites on Mount Begbie, British Columbia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 52, 129-164
Gadas P, Novák M, Cempírek J, Filip J, Galiová M V, Groat L A, Všianský D (2014) Mineral assemblages, compositional variation, and crystal structure of feruvitic tourmaline from a contaminated anatectic pegmatite at Mirošov near Strážek, Moldanubian zone, Czech Republic, The Canadian Mineralogist, 52, 285-301
Vereshchagin O S, Rozhdestvenskaya I V, Frank-Kamenetskaya O V, Zolotarev A A (2014) Ion substitutions and structural adjustment in Cr-bearing tourmalines, European Journal of Mineralogy, 26, 309-321
Bačík P (2015) Cation ordering at octahedral sites in schorl-dravite series tourmalines, The Canadian Mineralogist, 53, 571-590
Bosi F, Andreozzi G B, Agrosi G, Scandale E (2015) Fluor-tsilaisite, NaMn₃Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃F, a new tourmaline from San Piero in Campo (Elba, Italy) and new data on tsilaisitic tourmaline from the holotype specimen locality, Mineralogical Magazine, 79, 89-101 [view file]
Bosi F, Andreozzi G B, Hålenius U, Skogby H (2015) Experimental evidence for partial Fe²⁺ disorder at the Y and Z sites of tourmaline: a combined EMP, SREF, MS, IR and OAS study of schorl, Mineralogical Magazine, 79, 515-528
Cabral A R, Corrěa Neto A V (2015) Empirical Bi₈Te₃ and Bi₂Te from the São Sebastião gold deposit, Brazil: Implications for lode-gold mineralization in Minas Gerais, The Canadian Mineralogist, 53, 1061-1072
Ertl A, Vereshchagin O S, Giester G, Tillmanns E, Meyer H P, Ludwig T, Rozhdestvenskaya I V, Frank-Kamenetskaya O V (2015) Structural and chemical investigation of a zoned synthetic Cu-rich tourmaline, The Canadian Mineralogist, 53, 209-220
Vereshchagin O S, Frank-Kamenetskaya O V, Rozhdestvenskaya I V (2015) Crystal structure and stability of Ni-rich synthetic tourmaline. Distribution of divalent transition-metal cations over octahedral positions, Mineralogical Magazine, 79, 997-1006
Ertl A, Baksheev I A, Giester G, Lengauer C L, Prokofiev V Y, Zorina L D (2016) Bosiite, NaFe³⁺₃(Al₄Mg₂)(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃O, a new ferric member of the tourmaline supergroup from the Darasun gold deposit, Transbaikalia, Russia, European Journal of Mineralogy, 28, 581-591 [view file]
Hawthorne F C (2016) Short-range atomic arrangements in minerals. I: The minerals of the amphibole, tourmaline and pyroxene supergroups, European Journal of Mineralogy, 28, 513-536
Vereshchagin O S, Setkova T V, Rozhdestvenskaya I V, Frank-Kamenetskaya O V, Deyneko D V, Pokholok K V (2016) Synthesis and crystal structure of Ga-rich, Fe-bearing tourmaline, European Journal of Mineralogy, 28, 593-599
Watenphul A, Burgdorf M, Schlüter J, Horn I, Malcherek T, Mihailova B (2016) Exploring the potential of Raman spectroscopy for crystallochemical analyses of complex hydrous silicates: II. Tourmalines, American Mineralogist, 101, 970-985
Watenphul A, Schlüter J, Bosi F, Skogby H, Malcherek T, Mihailova B (2016) Influence of the octahedral cationic-site occupancies on the framework vibrations of Li-free tourmalines, with implications for estimating temperature and oxygen fugacity in host rocks, American Mineralogist, 101, 2554-2563
Zagorsky V Y, Peretyazhko I S, Dmitrieva A S (2016) Axinite-(Mn) from miarolitic granitic pegmatites of the Malkhan gem-tourmaline deposit (Transbaikalia, Russia): composition, paragenesis and conditions of formation, European Journal of Mineralogy, 28, 811-824
Bosi F, Cámara F, Ciriotti M E, Hålenius U, Reznitskii L, Stagno V (2017) Crystal-chemical relations and classification problems in tourmalines belonging to the oxy-schorl - oxy-dravite - bosiite - povondraite series, European Journal of Mineralogy, 29, 445-455
Hulsobosch N, Thomas R, Boiron M-C, Dewaele S, Muchez P (2017) Direct observation of boro-aluminosilicate melt compositions: Insights from Raman spectroscopy of melt inclusions in pegmatitic tourmaline of the Gatumba-Gitarama area (Rwanda), The Canadian Mineralogist, 55, 377-397
Bosi F (2018) Tourmaline crystal chemistry, American Mineralogist, 103, 298-306 [view file]
O’Bannon III E, Beavers C M, Kunz M, Williams Q (2018) High-pressure study of dravite tourmaline: Insights into the accommodating nature of the tourmaline structure, American Mineralogist, 103, 1622–1633
Berryman E J, Zhang D, Wunder B, Duffy T S (2019) Compressibility of synthetic Mg-Al tourmalines to 60 GPa, American Mineralogist, 104, 1005-1015
Bosi F, Biagioni C, Oberti R (2019) On the chemical identification and classification of minerals, Minerals, 9, 591 [view file]
Ertl A, Topa D, Giester G, Rossman G R, Tillmanns E, Konzett J (2019) Sr-bearing high-pressure tourmaline from the Kreuzeck Mountains, Eastern Alps, Austria, European Journal of Mineralogy, 31, 791-798

REFERENCES for Tourmaline

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

Rickard M J (1964) Metamorphic tourmaline overgrowths in the Oak Hill Series of Southern Quebec, The Canadian Mineralogist, 8, 86-91 [view file]

Manning P G (1968) An optical absorption study of the origin of colour and pleochroism in pink and brown tourmalines, The Canadian Mineralogist, 9, 678-690 [view file]

Manning P G (1969) Optical absorption spectra of chromium-bearing tourmaline, black tourmaline and buergerite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 10, 57-70 [view file]

Manning P G (1973) Effect of second–nearest–neighbour interaction on Mn³+ absorption in pink and black tourmalines, The Canadian Mineralogist, 11, 971-977 [view file]

Faye G H, Manning P G, Gosselin J R, Tremblay R J (1974) The optical absorption spectra of tourmaline: Importance of charge-transfer processes, The Canadian Mineralogist, 12, 370-380 [view file]

Fortier S, Donnay G (1975) Schorl refinement showing composition dependence of the tourmaline structure, The Canadian Mineralogist, 13, 173-177 [view file]

Ayuso R A, Brown C E (1984) Manganese-rich red tourmaline from the Fowler talc belt, New York, The Canadian Mineralogist, 22, 327-331 [view file]

Peng M, Mao H, Chen L, Chao E C T (1989) The polarized Raman spectra of tourmaline, Annual Report of the Director Geophysical Laboratory, 1989, 99-105 [view file]

Henry D J, Dutrow B L (1990) Ca substitution in Li-poor aluminous tourmaline, The Canadian Mineralogist, 28, 111-124 [view file]

Samson I M, Sinclair W D (1992) Magmatic hydrothermal fluids and the origin of quartz - tourmaline orbicules in the Seagull batholith, Yukon Territory, The Canadian Mineralogist, 30, 937-954 [view file]

Sinclair W D, Richardson J M (1992) Quartz-tourmaline orbicules in the Seagull batholith, Yukon Territory, The Canadian Mineralogist, 30, 923-935 [view file]

Kazachenko V T, Butsik L A, Sapin V I, Kitaev I V, Barinov N N, Narnov G A (1993) Vanadian—chromian tourmaline and vanadian muscovite in contact–metamorphosed carbonaceous rocks, Primorye, Russia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 31, 347-356 [view file]

MacDonald D J, Hawthorne F C (1995) The crystal chemistry of Si‹—›Al substitution in tourmaline, The Canadian Mineralogist, 33, 849-858 [view file]

Roda E, Pesquera A, Velasco F (1995) Tourmaline in granitic pegmatites and their country rocks, Fregeneda area, Salamanca, Spain, The Canadian Mineralogist, 33, 835-848 [view file]

Lynch G, Ortega J (1997) Hydrothermal alteration and tourmaline-albite equilibria at the Coxheath porphyry Cu-Mo-Au deposit, Nova Scotia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 35, 79-94 [view file]

Federico M, Andreozzi G B, Lucchesi S, Graziani G, César-Mendes J (1998) Compositional variation of tourmaline in the granitic pegmatite dykes of the Cruzeiro mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil, The Canadian Mineralogist, 36, 415-431 [view file]

Von Goerne G, Franz G, Robert J L (1999) Upper thermal stability of tourmaline + quartz in the system MgO–Al₂O₃–SiO₂–B₂O₃–H₂O and Na₂O–MgO–Al₂O₃–SiO₂–B₂O₃–H₂O–HCl in hydrothermal solutions and siliceous melts, The Canadian Mineralogist, 37, 1025-1039 [view file]

Yavuz F, Iskenderoglu A, Jiang S Y (1999) Tourmaline compositions from the Salikvan porphyry Cu–Mo deposit and vicinity, northeastern Turkey, The Canadian Mineralogist, 37, 1007-1023 [view file]

Dutrow B L, Henry D J (2000) Complexly zoned fibrous tourmaline, Cruzeiro mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil: a record of evolving magmatic and hydrothermal fluids, The Canadian Mineralogist, 38, 131-143 [view file]

Ertl A, Hughes J M, Pertlik F, Foit F F, Wright S E, Brandstätter F, Marler B (2002) Polyhedron distortions in tourmaline, The Canadian Mineralogist, 40, 153-162 [view file]

Hawthorne F C (2002) Bond-valence constraints on the chemical composition of tourmaline, The Canadian Mineralogist, 40, 789-797 [view file]

Baksheev I A, Kudryavtseva O E (2004) Nickeloan tourmaline from the Berezovskoe gold deposit, Middle Urals, Russia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 42, 1065-1078 [view file]

Bosi F (2008) Disordering of Fe²⁺ over octahedrally coordinated sites of tourmaline, American Mineralogist, 93, 1647-1653 [view file]

Ertl A, Tillmanns E, Ntaflos T, Francis C, Giester G, Körner W, Hughes J M, Lengauer C, Prem M (2008) Tetrahedrally coordinated boron in Al-rich tourmaline and its relationship to the pressure-temperature conditions of formation, European Journal of Mineralogy, 20, 881-888

Bosi F, Balic-Zunic T, Surour A A (2010) Crystal structure analyses of four tourmaline specimens from the Cleopatra's Mines (Egypt) and Jabal Zalm (Saudi Arabia), and the role of Al in the tourmaline group, American Mineralogist, 95, 510-518 [view file]

Ertl A, Marschall H R, Giester G, Henry D J, Schertl H P, Ntaflos T, Luvizotto G L, Nasdala L, Tillmanns E (2010) Metamorphic ultrahigh-pressure tourmaline: structure, chemistry, and correlations to P-T conditions, American Mineralogist, 95, 1-10 [view file]

Bačík P, Méres Š, Uher P (2011) Vanadium-bearing tourmaline in metacherts from Chvojnica, Slovak Republic: crystal chemistry and multistage evolution, The Canadian Mineralogist, 49, 195-206 [view file]

Henry D J, Dutrow B L (2011) The incorporation of fluorine in tourmaline: internal crystallographic controls or external environmental influences?, The Canadian Mineralogist, 49, 41-56 [view file]

Henry D J, Novák M, Hawthorne F C, Ertl A, Dutrow B L, Uher P, Pezzotta F (2011) Nomenclature of the tourmaline-supergroup minerals, American Mineralogist, 96, 895-913 [view file]

Bačík P, Uher P, Ertl A, Jonsson E, Nysten P, Kanický V, Vaculovič T (2012) Zoned REE-enriched dravite from a granitic pegmatite in Forshammar Bergslagen Province, Sweden: An EMPA, XRD and LA-ICP-MS study, The Canadian Mineralogist, 50, 825-841 [view file]

Bosi F, Reznitskii L, Skogby H (2012) Oxy-chromium-dravite, NaCr₃(Cr₄Mg₂)(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃O, a new mineral species of the tourmaline supergroup, American Mineralogist, 97, 2024-2030 [view file]

Ertl A, Kolitsch U, Dyar M D, Hughes J M, Rossman G R, Pieczka A, Henry D J, Pezzotta F, Prowatke S, Lengauer C L, Körner W, Brandstätter F, Francis C A, Prem M, Tillmanns E (2012) Limitations of Fe²⁺ and Mn²⁺ site occupancy in tourmaline: Evidence from Fe²⁺ - and Mn²⁺ -rich tourmaline, American Mineralogist, 97, 1402-1416 [view file]

Ertl A, Schuster R, Hughes J M, Ludwig T, Meyer H-P, Finger F, Dyar M D, Ruschel K, Rossman G R, Klötzli U, Brandstätter F, Lengauer C L, Tillmanns E (2012) Li-bearing tourmalines in Variscan granitic pegmatites from the Moldanubian nappes, Lower Austria, European Journal of Mineralogy, 24, 695-715

Bosi F, Andreozzi G B, Skogby H, Lussier A J, Abdu Y, Hawthorne F C (2013) Fluor-elbaite, Na(Li_1.5Al_1.5)Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃F, a new mineral species of the tourmaline supergroup, American Mineralogist, 98, 297-303 [view file]

Bosi F, Reznitskii L, Sklyarov E V (2013) Oxy-vanadium-dravite, NaV₃(V₄Mg₂)(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃O: Crystal structure and redefinition of the "vanadium-dravite" tourmaline, American Mineralogist, 98, 501-505 [view file]

Bosi F (2013) Bond-valence constraints around the O1 site of tourmaline, Mineralogical Magazine, 77, 343-351

Bosi F, Reznitskii L, Skogby H, Hålenius U (2014) Vanadio-oxy-chromium-dravite, NaV₃(Cr₄Mg₂)(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃O, a new mineral species of the tourmaline supergroup, American Mineralogist, 99, 1155-1162 [view file]

Dixon A, Cempírek J, Groat L A (2014) Mineralogy and geochemistry of pegmatites on Mount Begbie, British Columbia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 52, 129-164

Gadas P, Novák M, Cempírek J, Filip J, Galiová M V, Groat L A, Všianský D (2014) Mineral assemblages, compositional variation, and crystal structure of feruvitic tourmaline from a contaminated anatectic pegmatite at Mirošov near Strážek, Moldanubian zone, Czech Republic, The Canadian Mineralogist, 52, 285-301

Vereshchagin O S, Rozhdestvenskaya I V, Frank-Kamenetskaya O V, Zolotarev A A (2014) Ion substitutions and structural adjustment in Cr-bearing tourmalines, European Journal of Mineralogy, 26, 309-321

Bačík P (2015) Cation ordering at octahedral sites in schorl-dravite series tourmalines, The Canadian Mineralogist, 53, 571-590

Bosi F, Andreozzi G B, Agrosi G, Scandale E (2015) Fluor-tsilaisite, NaMn₃Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃F, a new tourmaline from San Piero in Campo (Elba, Italy) and new data on tsilaisitic tourmaline from the holotype specimen locality, Mineralogical Magazine, 79, 89-101 [view file]

Bosi F, Andreozzi G B, Hålenius U, Skogby H (2015) Experimental evidence for partial Fe²⁺ disorder at the Y and Z sites of tourmaline: a combined EMP, SREF, MS, IR and OAS study of schorl, Mineralogical Magazine, 79, 515-528

Cabral A R, Corrěa Neto A V (2015) Empirical Bi₈Te₃ and Bi₂Te from the São Sebastião gold deposit, Brazil: Implications for lode-gold mineralization in Minas Gerais, The Canadian Mineralogist, 53, 1061-1072

Ertl A, Vereshchagin O S, Giester G, Tillmanns E, Meyer H P, Ludwig T, Rozhdestvenskaya I V, Frank-Kamenetskaya O V (2015) Structural and chemical investigation of a zoned synthetic Cu-rich tourmaline, The Canadian Mineralogist, 53, 209-220

Vereshchagin O S, Frank-Kamenetskaya O V, Rozhdestvenskaya I V (2015) Crystal structure and stability of Ni-rich synthetic tourmaline. Distribution of divalent transition-metal cations over octahedral positions, Mineralogical Magazine, 79, 997-1006

Ertl A, Baksheev I A, Giester G, Lengauer C L, Prokofiev V Y, Zorina L D (2016) Bosiite, NaFe³⁺₃(Al₄Mg₂)(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃O, a new ferric member of the tourmaline supergroup from the Darasun gold deposit, Transbaikalia, Russia, European Journal of Mineralogy, 28, 581-591 [view file]

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