geikielite
{{Short description|Magnesium titanium oxide mineral}}
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| name = Geikielite
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| caption = Crystals of geikielite from the Maxwell quarry, Chelsea, Outaouais, Québec, Canada
| category = Oxide mineral
| formula = MgTiO3
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| strunz = 4.CB.05
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| system = Trigonal
| class = Rhombohedral ({{overline|3}})
(same H-M symbol)
| symmetry = R{{overline|3}}
| unit cell = a = 5.05478(26) Å
c = 13.8992(7) Å; Z = 6
| color = Black, ruby red uncommon; red internal reflections
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| habit = Tabular prismatic crystals, also as finely granular masses
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| cleavage = Good on {10{{overline|1}}1}
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| mohs = 5 - 6
| luster = Sub-metallic
| streak = Purplish brown
| diaphaneity = Opaque to translucent
| gravity = 3.79 - 4.2
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| opticalprop = Uniaxial (-)
| refractive = nω = 2.310 - 2.350 nε = 1.950 - 1.980
| birefringence = δ = 0.360 - 0.370
| pleochroism = Weak, O = pinkish red, E = brownish to purplish red
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| references = [http://rruff.geo.arizona.edu/doclib/hom/geikielite.pdf Handbook of Mineralogy][http://www.mindat.org/min-1670.html Geikielite on Mindat.org][http://www.webmineral.com/data/Geikielite.shtml Geikielite on Webmineral]
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Geikielite is a magnesium titanium oxide mineral with formula: MgTiO3. It is a member of the ilmenite group. It crystallizes in the trigonal system forming typically opaque, black to reddish black crystals.
It was first described in 1892{{cite journal | doi = 10.1038/046620b0 | title = Geikielite and Baddeleyite, Two New Mineral Species | year = 1892 | last1 = Fletcher | first1 = L. | journal = Nature | volume = 46 | issue = 1200 | pages = 620–621|bibcode = 1892Natur..46..620F | doi-access = free }} for an occurrence in the Ceylonese gem bearing gravel placers. It was named for Scottish geologist Sir Archibald Geikie (1835–1924). It occurs in metamorphosed impure magnesian limestones, in serpentinite derived from ultramafic rocks, in kimberlites and carbonatites. Associated minerals include rutile, spinel, clinohumite, perovskite, diopside, serpentine, forsterite, brucite, hydrotalcite, chlorite and calcite.
References
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Further reading
- {{cite journal | doi =10.1007/BF01167285 | title =Thermodynamic properties of hematite — Ilmenite — Geikielite solid solutions | year =1990 | last1 =Ghiorso | first1 =Mark S. |author-link=Mark S. Ghiorso |journal =Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology | volume =104 | issue =6 | pages =645–667|bibcode = 1990CoMP..104..645G | s2cid =98522254 }}
- {{cite journal | doi =10.1007/BF00202274 | title =High-temperature properties of geikielite (MgTiO3-ilmenite) from high-temperature high-pressure Raman spectroscopy ? Some implications for MgSiO3-ilmenite | year =1994 | last1 =Reynard | first1 =B. | last2 =Guyot | first2 =F. | journal =Physics and Chemistry of Minerals | volume =21 | issue =7| pages =441 |bibcode = 1994PCM....21..441R | s2cid =96095190 }}
- {{cite journal | doi =10.1007/BF00543648 | title =Synthesis of the mineral geikielite MgTiO3 | year =1991 | last1 =Baura-Peña | first1 =M. P. | last2 =Martínez-Lope | first2 =M. J. | last3 =García-Clavel | first3 =M. E. | journal =Journal of Materials Science | volume =26 | issue =16 | pages =4341|bibcode = 1991JMatS..26.4341B | s2cid =94170430 }}
- {{cite journal | doi =10.1016/0021-9614(89)90058-X | title =Heat capacities and entropies at 298.15 K of MgTiO3(geikielite), ZnO (zincite), and ZnCO3 (smithsonite) | year =1989 | last1 =Robie | first1 =Richard A. | last2 =Haselton | first2 =H.T. | last3 =Hemingway | first3 =Bruce S. | journal =The Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics | volume =21 | issue =7 | pages =743| url =https://zenodo.org/record/1253910 }}
- {{cite journal | doi =10.1007/BF01166694 | title =Titanian clinohumite and geikielite in marbles from the Bergell contact aureole | year =1987 | last1 =Gieré | first1 =Reto | journal =Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology | volume =96 | issue =4 | pages =496–502|bibcode = 1987CoMP...96..496G | s2cid =86861792 | url =https://freidok.uni-freiburg.de/fedora/objects/freidok:3945/datastreams/FILE1/content }}
- {{cite journal | doi =10.1016/j.matlet.2007.01.097 | title =Electrical resistivity of nano-crystalline and natural MgTiO3−geikielite at high-pressures up to 8 GPa | year =2007 | last1 =Parthasarathy | first1 =G. | journal =Materials Letters | volume =61 | issue =21 | pages =4329–4331}}
- {{cite journal | doi =10.1080/01418619808241931 | title =Ion irradiation damage in geikielite (MgTiO3) | year =1998 | last1 =Mitchell | first1 =Jeremy N. | last2 =Yu | first2 =Ning | last3 =Sickafus | first3 =Kurt E. | last4 =Nastasi | first4 =Michael A. | last5 =McClellan | first5 =Kenneth J. | journal =Philosophical Magazine A | volume =78 | issue =3 | pages =713| bibcode =1998PMagA..78..713M }}
- {{cite journal | url =http://canmin.geoscienceworld.org/content/9/1/95 |title=Geikielite; a new Canadian occurrence|journal=The Canadian Mineralogist|volume=9|issue=1|pages=95–100|date=June 1967|last1=Chao|first1=G. Y.|last2=Hounslow|first2=A. W.}}
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Category:Minerals in space group 148
Category:Minerals described in 1892
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