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Section: 6 Minerals and pigments (MP) Page: 409

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IRUG filename:
IMP00409
Data type:
Infrared
IRUG material class:
Minerals and pigments (MP)
Sample type:
Reference material
Common name(s):
Mcguinnessite
Chemical/botanical name(s):
Anhydrous carbonate with hydroxyl or halogen (class), malachite (rosasite) (mineral group)
Sample source 1:
Miner's Ridge
Source location 1:
Red Mountain, Mendocino County, California, US
Sample source 2:
British Museum
Source location 2:
Great Russell Street, London, WC1B-3DG, UK
Sample identifier 2:
BM1977,463
Sample source 3:
The Natural History Museum, National Museums of Scotland
Source location 3:
Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK, Edinburgh, UK
Color:
Blue, pale
Other:
Spectrum is similar to those of glaukosphaerite, kolwezite, rosasite and malachite
Application:
Transmission FTIR spectroscopy
Mode:
Tran
Literature Reference:
Jones, G. C., and B. Jackson. Infrared Transmission Spectra of Carbonate Minerals. London: Chapman & Hall, 1993. Erd, R. C., F. P. Cesbron, and J. R. Clark. "McGuinnessite, a New Carbonate for Carbonate." Mineralogical Record 12.3 (1981): 143-47. Postl, W., and P. Golob. "McGuinnessit, (Mg, Cu)2CO3(OH)2 Aus Dem Serpentingebiet Von Kraubath, Steirmark (McGuinnessite from the Kraubath Serpentine Massif, Styria)." Mitteilungsblatt Abteilung Fur Mineralogie Am Landesmuseum Joanneum 49 (1981): 15-21.
Originating institution name:
Natural History Museum, National Museums of Scotland
Originating institution acronym:
NHM
Linear formula:
(Mg,Cu)2(CO3)(OH)2
Other analytical methods:
EDS (Mg:Cu=approx. 1.1:0.9 with trace Si, Fe, Ca, Al), SEM, XRD (8080F NHM std=mcguinnessite or near)