Interactive IRUG Spectrum

Section: 6

Minerals and pigments (MP)

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IRUG filename: IMP00335	Data type: Infrared	IRUG material class: Minerals and pigments (MP)
Sample type: Reference material	Common name(s): Aurichalcite	Chemical/botanical name(s): Anhydrous carbonate with hydroxyl or halogen (class), aurichalite (mineral group)
Sample source 1: Copper Queen Mine	Source location 1: Bisbee, Arizona, US	Sample source 2: British Museum
Source location 2: Great Russell Street, London, WC1B-3DG, UK	Sample identifier 2: BM56865	Sample source 3: The Natural History Museum, National Museums of Scotland
Source location 3: Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK, Edinburgh, UK	Color: Blue, green, pale	Other: Spectrum is quite different from that of the chemically similar rosasite
Application: Transmission FTIR spectroscopy	Mode: Tran	Literature Reference: Jones, G. C., and B. Jackson. Infrared Transmission Spectra of Carbonate Minerals. London: Chapman & Hall, 1993., Braithwaite, R. S. W., and G. Ryback. "Rosasite, Aurichalcite, and Associated Minerals from Heights of Abraham, Matlock Bath, Derbyshire, with a Note on Infra-red Spectra." Mineralogical Magazine 33.261 (1962): 441-49.
Originating institution name: Natural History Museum, National Museums of Scotland	Originating institution acronym: NHM	Linear formula: (Zn,Cu)5(CO3)2(OH)6
Other analytical methods: EDS (Zn:Cu=1.8:1 with trace Si), SEM, XRD (5989F NHM std)