A vibrational spectroscopic study of the anhydrous phosphate mineral sidorenkite Na3Mn(PO4)(CO3)

• Published in: Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy
• Main Authors: Frost, Ray, Lopez Toro, Andres, Scholz, Ricardo, Belotti, Fernanda, Xi, Yunfei
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 2015
• Subjects: carbonate; infrared spectroscopy; phosphate; raman spectroscopy; sidorenkite; Alluaiv; Kola Peninsula; kola peninsula
• Online Access: https://eprints.qut.edu.au/83664/

Sidorenkite is a very rare low-temperature hydrothermal mineral, formed very late in the crystallization of hyperagpaitic pegmatites in a differentiated alkalic massif (Mt. Alluaiv, Kola Peninsula, Russia). Sidorenkite Na3Mn(PO4)(CO3) is a phosphate–carbonate of sodium and manganese. Such a formula...