Journal of

GEOsciences

  (Formerly Journal of the Czech Geological Society)

Original Paper

Stuart J. Mills, Pamela S. Whitfield, Anthony R. Kampf, Siobhan A. Wilson, Gregory M. Dipple, Mati Raudsepp, Georges Favreau

Contribution to the crystallography of hydrotalcites: the crystal structures of woodallite and takovite

Journal of Geosciences, volume 57 (2012), issue 4, 273 - 279

DOI: http://doi.org/10.3190/jgeosci.127

Bish DL, Brindley GW (1977) Reinvestigation of takovite, a nickel aluminium hydroxy-carbonate of the pyroaurite group. Amer Miner 62: 458-464

Bookin AS, Drits VA (1993) Polytype diversity of the hydrotalcite-like minerals. I. Possible polytypes and their diffraction features. Clays and Clay Miner 41: 551-557
http://doi.org/10.1346/CCMN.1993.0410504

Bookin AS, Cherkashin VI, Drits VA (1993a) Polytype diversity of the hydrotalcite-like minerals. II. Determination of the polytypes of experimentally studied varieties. Clays and Clay Miner 41: 558-564
http://doi.org/10.1346/CCMN.1993.0410505

Bookin AS, Cherkashin VI, Drits VA (1993b) Reinterpretation of the X-ray diffraction patterns of stichtite and reevesite. Clays and Clay Miner 41: 631-634
http://doi.org/10.1346/CCMN.1993.0410514

Braithwaite RSW, Dunn PJ, Pritchard RG, Paar WH (1994) Iowaite, a re-investigation. Mineral Mag 58: 79-85
http://doi.org/10.1180/minmag.1994.058.390.08

Bruker (2008) SAINT, SADABS AND SHELXTL. Bruker AXS Inc. Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Drits VA, Sokolova TN, Sokolova GV, Cherkashin VI (1987) New members of the hydrotalcite-manasseite group. Clays and Clay Miner 35: 401-417
http://doi.org/10.1346/CCMN.1987.0350601

Duan X, Evans DG (eds) (2006) Layered Double Hydroxides. Structure and Bonding 119 (Special volume): 1-234
http://doi.org/10.1007/b100426

Evans DG, Slade RCT (2006) Structural aspects of layered double hydroxides. Structure and Bonding 119: 1-87

Favreau G, Dietrich JE (2001) Le district cobalto-nickélifère de Bou Azzer (Maroc) - Géologie, histoire et description des espèces minérales. Le Cahier des Micromonteurs 3: 1-115

Grguric BA, Madsen IC, Pring A (2001) Woodallite, a new chromium analogue of iowaite from the Mount Keith nickel deposit, Western Australia. Mineral Mag 65: 427-435
http://doi.org/10.1180/002646101300119501

Kameda T, Uchiyama N, Yoshioka T (2011) Removal of HCl, SO₂, and NO by treatment of acid gas with Mg-Al oxide slurry. Chemosphere 82: 587-591
http://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2010.11.020

Madsen IC, Hill RJ (1994) Collection and analysis of powder diffraction data with near-constant counting statistics. J Appl Cryst 27: 385-392
http://doi.org/10.1107/S0021889893008593

Maksimović Z (1957) Takovite, hydrous nickel aluminate, a new mineral. Zapisnici Srpskog geološkog društva 1955: 219-224

Mills SJ, Wilson SA, Dipple GM, Raudsepp M (2010) The decomposition of konyaite: importance in CO₂ fixation in mine tailings. Mineral Mag 74: 903-917
http://doi.org/10.1180/minmag.2010.074.5.903

Mills SJ, Whitfield PS, Wilson SA, Woodhouse JN, Dipple GM, Raudsepp M, Francis CA (2011) The crystal structure of stichtite, re-examination of barbertonite and the nature of polytypism in MgCr hydrotalcites. Amer Miner 96: 179-187
http://doi.org/10.2138/am.2011.3531

Mills SJ, Christy AG, Génin J-MR, Kameda T, Colombo F (2012) Nomenclature of the hydrotalcite supergroup: natural layered double hydroxides. Mineral Mag 76: 1289-1336
http://doi.org/10.1180/minmag.2012.076.5.10

Sheldrick GM (2008) SHELXL97 - program for the refinement of crystal structures. University of Göttingen, Germany

Toby BH (2006) R factors in Rietveld analysis: how good is good enough? Powder Diffr 21: 67-70
http://doi.org/10.1154/1.2179804

Warren BE (1969) X-ray Diffraction. Dover Publications Inc, New York, USA, pp 381

Whitfield PS, Niketic S, Le Page Y, Davidson IJ (2005) Investigating the nature of line broadening in electrochemically delithiated Li_1.2Mn_0.4Ni_0.3Co_0.2O₂. Advances in X-ray Analysis 49: 149-155

Wilson SA (2009) Mineral Traps for Greenhouse Gases in Mine Tailings: a Protocol for Verifying and Quantifying CO₂ Sequestration in Ultramafic Mines. Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, pp 1-315

Woodhouse JN (2006) The Characterization of Hydrotalcite-Group Minerals and Their Anion Exchange Capabilities at Mount Keith Nickel Mine, Western Australia. Unpublished B.Sc. Thesis, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, pp 1-72