Interactive IRUG Spectrum

Section: 6

Minerals and pigments (MP)

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IRUG filename: IMP00350	Data type: Infrared	IRUG material class: Minerals and pigments (MP)
Sample type: Reference material	Common name(s): Hellyerite	Chemical/botanical name(s): Hydrated normal carbonate (class), nesquehonite (mineral group)
Sample source 1: Lord Brassey Mine	Source location 1: Heazelwood, County Russell, Tasmania, Australia	Sample source 2: British Museum
Source location 2: Great Russell Street, London, WC1B-3DG, UK	Sample identifier 2: BM1959,534	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	Other: Spectrum is very close to that zaratite, i.e. the hellyerite may have dehydrated, previous x-ray work on this specimen gave patterns matching those in the original description, Williams
Application: Transmission FTIR spectroscopy	Mode: Tran	Literature Reference: Jones, G. C., and B. Jackson. Infrared Transmission Spectra of Carbonate Minerals. London: Chapman & Hall, 1993. Isaacs, T. "The Mineralogy and Chemistry of the Nickel Carbonates." Mineralogical Magazine 33.263 (1963): 663-78. Williams, K. L., I. M. Threadgold, and A. W. Hounslow. "Hellyerite, a New Nickel Carbonate from Heazlewood, Tasmania." American Mineralogist 45.5, 6 (1959): 533-38.
Originating institution name: Natural History Museum, National Museums of Scotland	Originating institution acronym: NHM	Molecular formula: C H12 Ni O9
Linear formula: NiCO3*6H2O	Other analytical methods: EDS (Ni with trace Cu, Zn, Cl), SEM, XRD (7948F NHM std=amorphous)