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Section: 6 Minerals and pigments (MP) Page: 359

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Details

IRUG filename:
IMP00359
Data type:
Infrared
IRUG material class:
Minerals and pigments (MP)
Sample type:
Reference material
Common name(s):
Mckelveyite-(Y)
Chemical/botanical name(s):
Hydrated normal carbonates (class), mckelveyite (mineral group)
Sample source 1:
Mont St. Hilaire
Source location 1:
Quebec, Canada
Sample source 2:
Royal Museum of Scotland
Source location 2:
Chambers Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1JF, UK
Sample identifier 2:
RMS1979.25.15.
Sample source 3:
The Natural History Museum, National Museums of Scotland
Source location 3:
Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK, Edinburgh, UK
Color:
Yellow, greenish
Other:
Spectrum is similar to those of weloganite and donnayite-(Y)
Application:
Transmission FTIR spectroscopy
Mode:
Tran
Literature Reference:
Jones, G. C., and B. Jackson. Infrared Transmission Spectra of Carbonate Minerals. London: Chapman & Hall, 1993. Donnay, G., and J. D. H. Donnay. "Edwaldite, a New Barium Calcium Carbonate 1. Occurrence of Ewaldite in Syntactic Intergrowth with Mackelveyite 2. Its Crystal Structure." Tschermaks Mineralogische Und Petrographische Mitteilungen 15 (1971): 185-212. Milton, C., B. Ingram, J. R. Clark, and E. J. Dwornik. "Mckelveyite, a New Hydrous Sodium Barium Rare Earth Uranium Carbonate Mineral from the Green River Formation, Wyoming." American Mineralogist 50 (1965): 593-612. Voloshin, A. V., V. V. Subbotin, V. N. Yavoventchuk, Y. A. Pakhomovsky, and Y. P. Menshikov. "Mckelvysite from Carbonites and Hydrothermalites of Alkaline Rocks, Kola Peninsula." Zapiski Vsesoyuznogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva 119 (1990): 76-86.
Originating institution name:
Natural History Museum, National Museums of Scotland
Originating institution acronym:
NHM
Linear formula:
NaBa3(Ca,U)Y(CO3)6*3H2O
Other analytical methods:
EDS, SEM, XRD