Childrenite R070538

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Name: Childrenite
RRUFF ID: R070538
Ideal Chemistry: Fe2+Al(PO4)(OH)2·H2O
Locality: Llallagua, Bustillos Province, Potosi, Bolivia
Source: James Shigley [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Brown pyramidal, prismatic crystals
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction.
Mineral Group: [ Childrenite (12) ]
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CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R070538.2
Sample Description: Microprobe Fragment
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
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RRUFF ID: R070538
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW
POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R070538.9
Sample Description: Single crystal, powder profile is calculated
Cell Refinement Output: a: 10.394(2)Å    b: 13.374(3)Å    c: 6.914(1)Å
alpha: 90°    beta: 90°    gamma: 90°   Volume: 961.2(2)Å3    Crystal System: orthorhombic
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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Childrenite

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]

Brooke H J A (1823) On some undescribed minerals. Childrenite, The Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, and the Arts, 16, 274-277   [view file]

Barnes W H (1949) The unit cell and space group of childrenite, American Mineralogist, 34, 12-18   [view file]

Hurlbut C S (1950) Childrenite - eosphorite series, American Mineralogist, 35, 793-805   [view file]

Barnes W H, Shore V C (1951) The childrenite-eosphorite problem, American Mineralogist, 36, 509-510   [view file]

Fransolet A M (1980) The eosphorite-childrenite series associated with the Li-Mn-Fe phosphate minerals from the Buranga pegmatite, Rwanda, Mineralogical Magazine, 43, 1015-1023   [view file]

Giuseppetti G, Tadini C (1984) The crystal structure of childrenite from Tavistock (SW England), Ch89Eo11 term of childrenite-eosphorite, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1984, 263-271

Bermanec V, Šćavničar, Zebec V (1995) Childrenite and crandallite from the Stari Trg mine (Trepča), Kosovo: new data, Mineralogy and Petrology, 52, 197-208

Costa G M D, Scholz R, Karfunkel J, Bermanec V, Chaves M L D S C (2005) Fe-Mössbauer spectroscopy on natural eosphorite-childrenite-ernstite samples, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 31, 714-720

Frost R L, Xi Y, Scholz R, López A, Fernandes Lima R M, Moraes Ferreira C (2013) Vibrational spectroscopic characterization of the phosphate mineral series eosphorite - childrenite - (Mn,Fe)Al(PO4)(OH)2·(H2O), Vibrational Spectroscopy, 67, 14-21

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]

Behal D, Röska B, Park S H, Pedersen B, Benka G, Pfleiderer C, Wakabayashi Y (2017) The first study of antiferromagnetic eosphorite-childrenite series (Mn1–xFex)AlP(OH)2H2O (x=0.5), Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 428, 17-27

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