R050178 - RRUFF Database: Raman, X-ray, Infrared, and Chemistry

Xenotime-(Y) R050178

Name: Xenotime-(Y)
RRUFF ID: R050178
Ideal Chemistry: Y(PO₄)
Locality: Novo Horizonte, Bahia, Brazil
Source: Marcus Origlieri
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Brown crystal fragments
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis

Mineral Group: [ Zircon (35) ]

Quick search: [ All Xenotime-(Y) samples (3) ]

CHEMISTRY

RRUFF ID:	R050178.2
Sample Description:	Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry:	(Y_0.74Dy_0.09Gd_0.06Er_0.04Yb_0.02Ho_0.01Tb_0.01Sm_0.01Eu_0.01)_Σ=1.00(P_0.97As_0.02Si_0.01)_Σ=1.00O₄
Microprobe Data File:	[ Download Excel File ]

RAMAN SPECTRUM

RRUFF ID:

Sample Description:

Sample is oriented, mounted onto a pin and polished

Pin ID:

L00394

Orientation:

Laser parallel to -c* (0 0 -1). Fiducial mark perpendicular to laser is parallel to a [1 0 0].

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BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS

RRUFF ID:

R050178

Wavelength:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

Instrument settings:

Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW

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INFRARED SPECTRUM (Attenuated Total Reflectance)

RRUFF ID:

R050178.1

Sample Description:

Powder

Instrument settings:

SensIR Durascope on a Nicolet Magna 860 FTIR

Resolution:

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RRUFF ID:

R050178.1

Sample Description:

Powder

Instrument settings:

PIKE GladiATR - Far-IR on a Nicolet Magna 860 FTIR

Resolution:

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POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R050178.1

Sample Description:

Powder

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 6.9042(2)Å b: 6.9042(2)Å c: 6.0355(5)Å
alpha: 90.° beta: 90.° gamma: 90.° Volume: 287.70(2)Å³ Crystal System: tetragonal

File Type Information

Calculated diffraction file.

File Type Information

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

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

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REFERENCES for Xenotime-(Y)
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) Xenotime, yttria phosphatée, in Traité Élémentaire de Minéralogie, 2nd Edition Paris 552-553 [view file]
Strada M, Schwendimann G (1934) La struttura cristallina di alcuni fosfati ed arseniati di metalli trivalenti. II. Arseniato e fosfato di ittrio, Gazzetta Chimica Italiana, 64, 662-674 [view file]
Hutton C O (1947) Determination of xenotime, American Mineralogist, 32, 141-145 [view file]
Hutton C O (1950) Studies of heavy detrital minerals, Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 61, 635-710 [view file]
Shaw D M (1957) Xenotime from St. Siméon, Charlevoix County, Quebec, The Canadian Mineralogist, 6, 61-67 [view file]
Krstanovic I (1965) Redetermination of oxygen parameters in xenotime, YPO₄, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 121, 315-316 [view file]
Nickel E H, Mandarino J A (1987) Procedures involving the IMA Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names and guidelines on mineral nomenclature, American Mineralogist, 72, 1031-1042 [view file]
Demartin F, Pilati T, Diella V, Donzelli S, Gentile P, Gramaccioli C M (1991) The chemical composition of xenotime from fissures and pegmatites in the Alps, The Canadian Mineralogist, 29, 69-75 [view file]
Ni Y, Hughes J M, Mariano A N (1995) Crystal chemistry of the monazite and xenotime structures, American Mineralogist, 80, 21-26 [view file]
Sabourdy G, Sagon J P, Pastier P (1997) La composition chimique du xénotime en Limousin, Massif Central, France, The Canadian Mineralogist, 35, 937-946 [view file]
Van Emden B, Thornber M R, Graham J, Lincoln F J (1997) The incorporation of actinides in monazite and xenotime from placer deposits in Western Australia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 35, 95-104 [view file]
Ondruš P, Veselovský F, Gabašová A, Hloušek J, Šrein V, Vavrín I, Skála R, Sejkora J, Drábek M (2003) Primary minerals of the Jáchymov ore district, Journal of the Czech Geological Society, 48, 19-147 [view file]
Pršek J, Ondrejka M, Bačík P, Budzyń B, Uher P (2010) Metamorphic-hydrothermal REE minerals in the Bacúch Magnetite Deposit, Western Carpathians, Slovakia: (Sr,S)-rich monazite-(Ce) and Nd-dominant hingganite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 48, 81-94 [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]
Bastos Neto A C, Pereira V P, Pires A C, Barbanson L, Chauvet A (2012) Fluorine-rich xenotime from the world-class Madeira Nb-Ta-Sn deposit associated with the albite-enriched granite at Pitinga, Amazonia, Brazil, The Canadian Mineralogist, 50, 1453-1466 [view file]
Guastoni A, Nestola F, Ferraris C, Parodi G (2012) Xenotime-(Y) and Sn-rich thortveitite in miarolitic pegmatites from Baveno, Southern Alps, Italy, Mineralogical Magazine, 76, 761-767 [view file]
Andersen A K, Clark J G, Larson P B, Neill O K (2016) Mineral chemistry and petrogenesis of a HFSE(+HREE) occurrence, peripheral to carbonatites of the Bear Lodge alkaline complex, Wyoming, American Mineralogist, 101, 1604-1623
Guastoni A, Pozzi G, Secco L, Schiazza M, Pennacchioni G, Fioretti A M, Nestola F (2016) Monazite-(Ce) and xenotime-(Y) from an LCT, NYF tertiary pegmatite field: Evidence from a regional study in the Central Alps (Italy and Switzerland), The Canadian Mineralogist, 54, 863-877
Alves F E A, Neumann R, Ávila C A, Faulstich F R L (2019) Monazite-(Ce) and xenotime-(Y) microinclusions in fluorapatite of the pegmatites from the Volta Grande mine, Minas Gerais state, southeast Brazil, as witnesses of the dissolution– reprecipitation process, Mineralogical Magazine, 83, 595-606
Borst A M, Finch A A, Friis H, Horsburgh N J, Gamaletsos P N, Goettlicher J, Steininger R, Geraki K (2020) Structural state of rare earth elements in eudialyte-group minerals, Mineralogical Magazine, 84, 19-34
Pagliaro F, Lotti P, Guastoni A, Rotiroti N, Battiston T, Gatta G D (2022) Crystal chemistry and miscibility of chernovite-(Y), xenotime-(Y), gasparite-(Ce) and monazite-(Ce) from Mt. Cervandone, Western Alps, Italy, Mineralogical Magazine, 86, 150-167

REFERENCES for Xenotime-(Y)

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) Xenotime, yttria phosphatée, in Traité Élémentaire de Minéralogie, 2nd Edition Paris 552-553 [view file]

Strada M, Schwendimann G (1934) La struttura cristallina di alcuni fosfati ed arseniati di metalli trivalenti. II. Arseniato e fosfato di ittrio, Gazzetta Chimica Italiana, 64, 662-674 [view file]

Hutton C O (1947) Determination of xenotime, American Mineralogist, 32, 141-145 [view file]

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

Shaw D M (1957) Xenotime from St. Siméon, Charlevoix County, Quebec, The Canadian Mineralogist, 6, 61-67 [view file]

Krstanovic I (1965) Redetermination of oxygen parameters in xenotime, YPO₄, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 121, 315-316 [view file]

Nickel E H, Mandarino J A (1987) Procedures involving the IMA Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names and guidelines on mineral nomenclature, American Mineralogist, 72, 1031-1042 [view file]

Demartin F, Pilati T, Diella V, Donzelli S, Gentile P, Gramaccioli C M (1991) The chemical composition of xenotime from fissures and pegmatites in the Alps, The Canadian Mineralogist, 29, 69-75 [view file]

Ni Y, Hughes J M, Mariano A N (1995) Crystal chemistry of the monazite and xenotime structures, American Mineralogist, 80, 21-26 [view file]

Sabourdy G, Sagon J P, Pastier P (1997) La composition chimique du xénotime en Limousin, Massif Central, France, The Canadian Mineralogist, 35, 937-946 [view file]

Van Emden B, Thornber M R, Graham J, Lincoln F J (1997) The incorporation of actinides in monazite and xenotime from placer deposits in Western Australia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 35, 95-104 [view file]

Ondruš P, Veselovský F, Gabašová A, Hloušek J, Šrein V, Vavrín I, Skála R, Sejkora J, Drábek M (2003) Primary minerals of the Jáchymov ore district, Journal of the Czech Geological Society, 48, 19-147 [view file]

Pršek J, Ondrejka M, Bačík P, Budzyń B, Uher P (2010) Metamorphic-hydrothermal REE minerals in the Bacúch Magnetite Deposit, Western Carpathians, Slovakia: (Sr,S)-rich monazite-(Ce) and Nd-dominant hingganite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 48, 81-94 [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]

Bastos Neto A C, Pereira V P, Pires A C, Barbanson L, Chauvet A (2012) Fluorine-rich xenotime from the world-class Madeira Nb-Ta-Sn deposit associated with the albite-enriched granite at Pitinga, Amazonia, Brazil, The Canadian Mineralogist, 50, 1453-1466 [view file]

Guastoni A, Nestola F, Ferraris C, Parodi G (2012) Xenotime-(Y) and Sn-rich thortveitite in miarolitic pegmatites from Baveno, Southern Alps, Italy, Mineralogical Magazine, 76, 761-767 [view file]

Andersen A K, Clark J G, Larson P B, Neill O K (2016) Mineral chemistry and petrogenesis of a HFSE(+HREE) occurrence, peripheral to carbonatites of the Bear Lodge alkaline complex, Wyoming, American Mineralogist, 101, 1604-1623

Guastoni A, Pozzi G, Secco L, Schiazza M, Pennacchioni G, Fioretti A M, Nestola F (2016) Monazite-(Ce) and xenotime-(Y) from an LCT, NYF tertiary pegmatite field: Evidence from a regional study in the Central Alps (Italy and Switzerland), The Canadian Mineralogist, 54, 863-877

Alves F E A, Neumann R, Ávila C A, Faulstich F R L (2019) Monazite-(Ce) and xenotime-(Y) microinclusions in fluorapatite of the pegmatites from the Volta Grande mine, Minas Gerais state, southeast Brazil, as witnesses of the dissolution– reprecipitation process, Mineralogical Magazine, 83, 595-606

Borst A M, Finch A A, Friis H, Horsburgh N J, Gamaletsos P N, Goettlicher J, Steininger R, Geraki K (2020) Structural state of rare earth elements in eudialyte-group minerals, Mineralogical Magazine, 84, 19-34

Pagliaro F, Lotti P, Guastoni A, Rotiroti N, Battiston T, Gatta G D (2022) Crystal chemistry and miscibility of chernovite-(Y), xenotime-(Y), gasparite-(Ce) and monazite-(Ce) from Mt. Cervandone, Western Alps, Italy, Mineralogical Magazine, 86, 150-167