Rothspatch

This page is currently not sponsored. Click here to sponsor this page.

Photos of Rothspatch (6653)Discuss Rothspatch

Rothspatch Gallery Search Photos of Rothspatch

Edit Rothspatch Add Synonym Edit CIF structures Clear Cache

Rhodochrosite, etc.

Rosebery Mine, Rosebery, Rosebery district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia

Rhodochrosite, etc.

Sweet Home Mine, Detroit City Claim Block, Mount Bross, Alma Mining District, Park County, Colorado, USA

Rhodonite, etc.

North Mine, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia

Rhodochrosite, etc.

Sweet Home Mine, Detroit City Claim Block, Mount Bross, Alma Mining District, Park County, Colorado, USA

Rhodochrosite, etc.

Rosebery Mine, Rosebery, Rosebery district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia

Rhodochrosite, etc.

Sweet Home Mine, Detroit City Claim Block, Mount Bross, Alma Mining District, Park County, Colorado, USA

Rhodonite, etc.

North Mine, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia

Rhodochrosite, etc.

Sweet Home Mine, Detroit City Claim Block, Mount Bross, Alma Mining District, Park County, Colorado, USA

Rhodochrosite, etc.

Rosebery Mine, Rosebery, Rosebery district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia

Rhodochrosite, etc.

Sweet Home Mine, Detroit City Claim Block, Mount Bross, Alma Mining District, Park County, Colorado, USA

Hide all sections | Show all sections

About RothspatchHide

Synonym of:

Rhodochrosite, Rhodonite

This page provides mineralogical data about Rothspatch.

Unique IdentifiersHide

Mindat ID:

9254

Long-form identifier:

mindat:1:1:9254:4

Similar NamesHide

Rothspath

A synonym of Rhodochrosite

MnCO₃

Chemical AnalysisHide

Oxide wt%:

	1	2
MnCO₃	92.41 %
FeCO₃	0.64 %
CaCO₃	5.86 %
MgCO₃	1.12 %
SiO₂		46.62 %
Al₂O₃		1.07 %
FeO		1.85 %
MnO		42.79 %
MgO		0.32 %
CaO		6.38 %
Na₂O + K₂O		0.11 %
H₂O+		0.54 %
H₂O-		0.40 %
Total:	100.03 %	100.08 %

Sample references:

ID	Locality	Reference	Notes
1	Moët-Fontaine, Rahier, Stoumont, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium	de Koninck, L.L. (1879) La rhodochrosite de Moët-Fontaine. Bulletin de l'Académie royale de Belgique, 2e série: 47: 568.
2	Ambindavato, Soamanonga, Betioky District, Atsimo-Andrefana, Madagascar	Lacroix , A. (1939): Observation sur quelques min	Wet-chemical analysis by Mr.Raoult

Crystal StructureHide

Load
Unit Cell | Unit Cell Packed
2x2x2 | 3x3x3 | 4x4x4

View
CIF File Best | x | y | z | a | b | c

Rotation
Stop | Start

Labels
Console Off | On | Grey | Yellow

Data courtesy of the American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database. Click on an AMCSD ID to view structure

ID	Species	Reference	Year	Locality	Temp (K)
0000100	Rhodochrosite	Graf D L (1961) Crystallographic tables for the rhombohedral carbonates American Mineralogist 46 1283-1316	1961		293
0009891	Rhodochrosite	Maslen E N, Streltsov V A, Streltsova N R, Ishizawa N (1995) Electron density and optical anisotropy in rhombohedral carbonates. III. Synchrotron X-ray studies of CaCO3, MgCO3 and MnCO3 Acta Crystallographica B51 929-939	1995		293
0009892	Rhodochrosite	Maslen E N, Streltsov V A, Streltsova N R, Ishizawa N (1995) Electron density and optical anisotropy in rhombohedral carbonates. III. Synchrotron X-ray studies of CaCO3, MgCO3 and MnCO3 Acta Crystallographica B51 929-939	1995		293
0020834	Rhodochrosite	Effenberger H, Mereiter K, Zemann J (1981) Crystal structure refinements of magnesite, calcite, rhodochrosite, siderite, smithsonite, and dolomite, with discussion of some aspects of the stereochemistry of calcite type carbonates Zeitschrift fur Kristallographie 156 233-243	1981	Alicante, Spain	293
0018095	Rhodochrosite	Wyckoff R (1920) The crystal structures of some carbonates of the calcite group _cod_database_code 1011228 American Journal of Science 50 317-360	1920		293
0000690	Rhodonite	Peacor D R, Essene E J, Brown P E, Winter G A (1978) The crystal chemistry and petrogenesis of a magnesian rhodonite American Mineralogist 63 1137-1142	1978		293
0003774	Rhodonite	Nelson W R, Griffen D T (2005) Crystal chemistry of Zn-rich rhodonite ("fowlerite") and rhodonite cation distributions American Mineralogist 90 969-983	2005		293
0003775	Rhodonite	Nelson W R, Griffen D T (2005) Crystal chemistry of Zn-rich rhodonite ("fowlerite") American Mineralogist 90 969-983	2005		293
0003776	Rhodonite	Nelson W R, Griffen D T (2005) Crystal chemistry of Zn-rich rhodonite ("fowlerite") and rhodonite cation distributions American Mineralogist 90 969-983	2005		293
0003777	Rhodonite	Nelson W R, Griffen D T (2005) Crystal chemistry of Zn-rich rhodonite ("fowlerite") and rhodonite cation distributions American Mineralogist 90 969-983	2005		293
0003778	Rhodonite	Nelson W R, Griffen D T (2005) Crystal chemistry of Zn-rich rhodonite ("fowlerite") and rhodonite cation distributions American Mineralogist 90 969-983	2005		293
0003779	Rhodonite	Nelson W R, Griffen D T (2005) Crystal chemistry of Zn-rich rhodonite ("fowlerite") and rhodonite cation distributions American Mineralogist 90 969-983	2005		293
0003780	Rhodonite	Nelson W R, Griffen D T (2005) Crystal chemistry of Zn-rich rhodonite ("fowlerite") and rhodonite cation distributions American Mineralogist 90 969-983	2005		293
0003781	Rhodonite	Nelson W R, Griffen D T (2005) Crystal chemistry of Zn-rich rhodonite ("fowlerite") and rhodonite cation distributions American Mineralogist 90 969-983	2005		293
0003782	Rhodonite	Nelson W R, Griffen D T (2005) Crystal chemistry of Zn-rich rhodonite ("fowlerite") and rhodonite cation distributions American Mineralogist 90 969-983	2005		293
0003783	Rhodonite	Nelson W R, Griffen D T (2005) Crystal chemistry of Zn-rich rhodonite ("fowlerite") and rhodonite cation distributions American Mineralogist 90 969-983	2005		293
0003784	Rhodonite	Nelson W R, Griffen D T (2005) Crystal chemistry of Zn-rich rhodonite ("fowlerite") and rhodonite cation distributions American Mineralogist 90 969-983	2005		293
0003785	Rhodonite	Nelson W R, Griffen D T (2005) Crystal chemistry of Zn-rich rhodonite ("fowlerite") and rhodonite cation distributions American Mineralogist 90 969-983	2005		293
0003786	Rhodonite	Nelson W R, Griffen D T (2005) Crystal chemistry of Zn-rich rhodonite ("fowlerite") and rhodonite cation distributions American Mineralogist 90 969-983	2005		293
0003787	Rhodonite	Nelson W R, Griffen D T (2005) Crystal chemistry of Zn-rich rhodonite ("fowlerite") American Mineralogist 90 969-983	2005		293
0003788	Rhodonite	Nelson W R, Griffen D T (2005) Crystal chemistry of Zn-rich rhodonite ("fowlerite") and rhodonite cation distributions American Mineralogist 90 969-983	2005		293
0003789	Rhodonite	Nelson W R, Griffen D T (2005) Crystal chemistry of Zn-rich rhodonite ("fowlerite") and rhodonite cation distributions American Mineralogist 90 969-983	2005		293
0018494	Rhodonite	Leverett P, Williams P A, Hibbs D E (2008) Ca-Mg-Fe-rich rhodonite from the Morro da Mina mine, Conselheiro Lafaiete, Minas Gerais, Brazil The Mineralogical Record 39 125-130	2008	the Morro da Mina mine, Conselheiro Lafaiete, Minas Gerais, Brazil	293

CIF Raw Data - click here to close

data_global
_chemical_name_mineral 'Rhodochrosite'
loop_
_publ_author_name
'Graf D L'
_journal_name_full 'American Mineralogist'
_journal_volume 46 
_journal_year 1961
_journal_page_first 1283
_journal_page_last 1316
_publ_section_title
;
 Crystallographic tables for the rhombohedral carbonates
;
_database_code_amcsd 0000100
_chemical_formula_sum 'Mn C O3'
_cell_length_a 4.7771
_cell_length_b 4.7771
_cell_length_c 15.664
_cell_angle_alpha 90
_cell_angle_beta 90
_cell_angle_gamma 120
_cell_volume 309.572
_exptl_crystal_density_diffrn      3.699
_symmetry_space_group_name_H-M 'R -3 c'
loop_
_space_group_symop_operation_xyz
  'x,y,z'
  '2/3+x,1/3+y,1/3+z'
  '1/3+x,2/3+y,2/3+z'
  'x,x-y,1/2+z'
  '2/3+x,1/3+x-y,5/6+z'
  '1/3+x,2/3+x-y,1/6+z'
  'y,x,1/2-z'
  '2/3+y,1/3+x,5/6-z'
  '1/3+y,2/3+x,1/6-z'
  '-x+y,y,1/2+z'
  '2/3-x+y,1/3+y,5/6+z'
  '1/3-x+y,2/3+y,1/6+z'
  '-x,-x+y,1/2-z'
  '2/3-x,1/3-x+y,5/6-z'
  '1/3-x,2/3-x+y,1/6-z'
  '-y,-x,1/2+z'
  '2/3-y,1/3-x,5/6+z'
  '1/3-y,2/3-x,1/6+z'
  'x-y,-y,1/2-z'
  '2/3+x-y,1/3-y,5/6-z'
  '1/3+x-y,2/3-y,1/6-z'
  'y,-x+y,-z'
  '2/3+y,1/3-x+y,1/3-z'
  '1/3+y,2/3-x+y,2/3-z'
  '-x+y,-x,z'
  '2/3-x+y,1/3-x,1/3+z'
  '1/3-x+y,2/3-x,2/3+z'
  '-x,-y,-z'
  '2/3-x,1/3-y,1/3-z'
  '1/3-x,2/3-y,2/3-z'
  '-y,x-y,z'
  '2/3-y,1/3+x-y,1/3+z'
  '1/3-y,2/3+x-y,2/3+z'
  'x-y,x,-z'
  '2/3+x-y,1/3+x,1/3-z'
  '1/3+x-y,2/3+x,2/3-z'
loop_
_atom_site_label
_atom_site_fract_x
_atom_site_fract_y
_atom_site_fract_z
Mn   0.00000   0.00000   0.00000
C   0.00000   0.00000   0.25000
O   0.26920   0.00000   0.25000