Fluoro-pargasite

Fluoro-pargasite, etc.

Pargas, Southwest Finland, Finland

Fluoro-pargasite

Fowler Quarry, Franklin Marble, Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA

Fluoro-pargasite

Le Morne Brabant, Black River District, Mauritius

Fluoro-pargasite, etc.

Pargas, Southwest Finland, Finland

Fluoro-pargasite

Fowler Quarry, Franklin Marble, Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA

Fluoro-pargasite

Le Morne Brabant, Black River District, Mauritius

Fluoro-pargasite, etc.

Pargas, Southwest Finland, Finland

Fluoro-pargasite

Fowler Quarry, Franklin Marble, Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA

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Type:

Biaxial (+)

RI values:

n_α = 1.632 - 1.636 n_β = 1.640 - 1.644 n_γ = 1.652 - 1.656

2V:

Measured: 68° , Calculated: 79°

Max Birefringence:

δ = 0.020

Image shows birefringence interference colour range (at 30µm thickness)
and does not take into account mineral colouration.

Surface Relief:

Moderate

Dispersion:

r > v

Optical Extinction:

Y = b, Z ∧ c = 24° (acute).

Pleochroism:

Weak

Comments:

X - Colourless to light brown
Y - Light brown
Z - brown

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ID	Species	Reference	Link	Year	Locality	Pressure (GPa)	Temp (K)
0005425	Fluoro-pargasite	Oberti R, Sardone N, Hawthorne F C, Raudsepp M, Turnock A C (1995) Synthesis and crystal-structure refinement of synthetic fluor-pargasite The Canadian Mineralogist 33 25-31		1995	Synthetic	0	293
0005426	Fluoro-pargasite	Oberti R, Sardone N, Hawthorne F C, Raudsepp M, Turnock A C (1995) Synthesis and crystal-structure refinement of synthetic fluor-pargasite Sample FP2 [note: ideal = NaCa2(Mg4Al)(Si6Al2)O22(OH)2] The Canadian Mineralogist 33 25-31		1995	Synthetic	0	293
0006056	Fluoro-pargasite	Lupulescu M V, Rakovan J, Robinson G W, Hughes J M (2005) Fluoropargasite, a new member of the calcic amphiboles from Edenville, Orange County, New York The Canadian Mineralogist 43 1423-1428		2005	Edenville, Orange County, New York	0	293
0020429	Fluoro-pargasite	Della Ventura G, Bellatreccia F, Camara F, Oberti R (2014) Crystal-chemistry and short-range order of fluoro-edenite and fluoro-pargasite: a combined X-ray diffraction and FTIR spectroscopic approach Mineralogical Magazine 78 293-310		2014	Edenville, Orange County, New York, USA	0	293
0020430	Fluoro-pargasite	Della Ventura G, Bellatreccia F, Camara F, Oberti R (2014) Crystal-chemistry and short-range order of fluoro-edenite and fluoro-pargasite: a combined X-ray diffraction and FTIR spectroscopic approach Mineralogical Magazine 78 293-310		2014	Edenville, Orange County, New York, USA	0	293

CIF Raw Data - click here to closedata_global _chemical_name_mineral 'Fluoro-pargasite' loop_ _publ_author_name 'Oberti R' 'Sardone N' 'Hawthorne F C' 'Raudsepp M' 'Turnock A C' _journal_name_full 'The Canadian Mineralogist' _journal_volume 33 _journal_year 1995 _journal_page_first 25 _journal_page_last 31 _publ_section_title ; Synthesis and crystal-structure refinement of synthetic fluor-pargasite Sample: FP1 [note: ideal = NaCa2(Mg4Al)(Si6Al2)O22(OH)2] ; _database_code_amcsd 0005425 _chemical_compound_source 'Synthetic' _chemical_formula_sum 'Si6.012 Al2.762 Mg4.306 Ca2.12 Na.85 O22 F2' _cell_length_a 9.820 _cell_length_b 17.896 _cell_length_c 5.294 _cell_angle_alpha 90 _cell_angle_beta 105.30 _cell_angle_gamma 90 _cell_volume 897.386 _exptl_crystal_density_diffrn 3.118 _symmetry_space_group_name_H-M 'C 1 2/m 1' loop_ _space_group_symop_operation_xyz 'x,y,z' '1/2+x,1/2+y,z' 'x,-y,z' '1/2+x,1/2-y,z' '-x,y,-z' '1/2-x,1/2+y,-z' '-x,-y,-z' '1/2-x,1/2-y,-z' loop_ _atom_site_label _atom_site_fract_x _atom_site_fract_y _atom_site_fract_z _atom_site_occupancy _atom_site_U_iso_or_equiv SiT1 0.28210 0.08540 0.30430 0.52500 0.00557 AlT1 0.28210 0.08540 0.30430 0.47500 0.00557 SiT2 0.29130 0.17330 0.81470 0.97800 0.00608 AlT2 0.29130 0.17330 0.81470 0.02200 0.00608 MgM1 0.00000 0.08940 0.50000 1.00000 0.00646 AlM2 0.00000 0.17540 0.00000 0.38700 0.00633 MgM2 0.00000 0.17540 0.00000 0.61300 0.00633 MgM3 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 1.00000 0.00595 CaM4 0.00000 0.27940 0.50000 0.48000 0.00937 MgM4 0.00000 0.27940 0.50000 0.02000 0.00937 CaM4* 0.00000 0.25360 0.50000 0.48000 0.01127 MgM4* 0.00000 0.25360 0.50000 0.02000 0.01127 NaA 0.00000 0.50000 0.00000 0.17000 0.05117 CaA 0.00000 0.50000 0.00000 0.04000 0.05117 NaA(m) 0.04010 0.50000 0.09440 0.17000 0.03610 CaA(m) 0.04010 0.50000 0.09440 0.04000 0.03610 NaA(2) 0.00000 0.47130 0.00000 0.17000 0.02533 CaA(2) 0.00000 0.47130 0.00000 0.04000 0.02533 O1 0.10690 0.08710 0.21670 1.00000 0.00899 O2 0.11850 0.17220 0.73570 1.00000 0.00874 F3 0.10440 0.00000 0.71230 1.00000 0.00975 O4 0.36700 0.25170 0.78980 1.00000 0.01127 O5 0.35270 0.14060 0.11460 1.00000 0.01203 O6 0.34600 0.11670 0.61120 1.00000 0.01241 O7 0.34460 0.00000 0.27710 1.00000 0.01279

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Reference List:

Year ⬇Author Title Publisher

Oberti, R., Sardone, N., Hawthorne, F.C., Raudsepp, M., Turnock, A.C. (1995) Synthesis and crystal-structure refinement of synthetic fluor-pargasite. The Canadian Mineralogist: 33: 25-31.

Kahl, W.-A., Maresch, W.V., Welch, M.D. (2003) Enthalpy of formation of pargasite by high-temperature solution calorimetry and heat capacity of pargasite and fluoropargasite by differential scanning calorimetry. European Journal of Mineralogy: 15: 617-628.

Hawthorne, F. C., Oberti, R. (2006) On the classification of amphiboles. The Canadian Mineralogist, 44 (1) 1-21 doi:10.2113/gscanmin.44.1.1

Lupulescu, M. V., Rakovan, J., Dyar, M. D., Robinson, G. W., Hughes, J. M. (2009) Fluoro-potassichastingsite from the Greenwood mine, Orange County, New York: A new end-member calcic amphibole. The Canadian Mineralogist, 47 (4) 909-916 doi:10.3749/canmin.47.3.909

Hawthorne, F. C., Oberti, R., Harlow, G. E., Maresch, W. V., Martin, R. F., Schumacher, J. C., Welch, M. D. (2012) Nomenclature of the amphibole supergroup. American Mineralogist, 97 (11) 2031-2048 doi:10.2138/am.2012.4276

(2023) Fluoro-pargasite. Handbook of Mineralogy. Mineralogical Society of America

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All localities listed without proper references should be considered as questionable.

Finland
Southwest Finland ⓘ Pargas	Leake, B. E. (1968) A Catalog of Analyzed Calciferous and Subcalciferous Amphiboles Together with Their Nomenclature and Associated Minerals - Geological Society of America Special Papers. Geological Society of America. doi:10.1130/spe98
ⓘ Limberg quarry	Hietala, Satu 2012. Paraisten kalkkilouhoksen mineraaleista. Kivi 1/2012 12-18.
Italy
Campania Naples ⓘ Somma-Vesuvius Complex	Prof. Giancarlo Della Ventura, Università Roma Tre (2005)
Madagascar
Anosy Amboasary Sud District ⓘ Tranomaro	Hawthorne, Frank C., Oberti, Roberta, Ungaretti, Luciano, Grice, Joel D. (1996) A new hyper-calcic amphibole with Ca at the A site; fluor-cannilloite from Pargas, Finland. American Mineralogist, 81 (7). 995-1002 doi:10.2138/am-1996-7-821
Mauritius
Black River District ⓘ Le Morne Brabant	Georges Favreau collection
Tanzania
Dodoma Region Dodoma Urban District ⓘ Kikombo	Gunnar Färber
USA
New Jersey Sussex County Franklin ⓘ Balls Hill Iron Mines	Marco Cirrotti
Franklin Marble ⓘ Fowler Quarry (Nichol Quarry; B. Nicoll Quarry; Nicoll Quarry; Nicol Quarry; Cellate Quarry)	Dr. Robert Martin
ⓘ Franklin Quarry (Braens Quarry; Moses Bigelow Quarry; Farber Quarry)	Heixiong Yang
New York Orange County Town of Monroe ⓘ VIllage of Monroe	M. V. Lupulescu et al.: Canadian Mineralogist 43:1423-1428 (2005)
Town of Warwick Amity Rhein Property ⓘ Fluoropargasite type locality	Robinson, George W., Chamberlain, Steven C. (2007) Gazetteer of Major New York State Mineral Localities. Rocks & Minerals, 82 (6). 472-483 doi:10.3200/rmin.82.6.474-483
ⓘ Edenville (TL)	M. V. Lupulescu et al.: Canadian Mineralogist 43:1423-1428 (2005)
St. Lawrence County North Russell ⓘ OBrien farm	Walter, M. R. (2022) The Tremolites of St. Lawrence County, New York. Rocks & Minerals 97:142-149
ⓘ Russell	M. V. Lupulescu et al.: Canadian Mineralogist 43:1423-1428 (2005)