Optical Spectra of Micas

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• Grum-Grzhimailo SV, Anikina LI, Belova EN, Tolstikhina KI (1955) Curves of spectral absorption and other physical constants of natural micas. Mineralogicheskii Sbornik (Lvov) 9, 90-119. (In Russian)  
• Rossman  GR (1984) Spectroscopy of Micas. In: S.W. Bailey, ed., Micas. Reviews in Mineralogy 13, 145-181. 
• Dyar MD (2002) Optical and Mossbauer Spectroscopy of Iron in Micas. Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry  46, 313–349. 
• Platonov AN, Khomenko VM, Tarashchan AN (2013) Optical spectroscopy and luminescence of rock-forming micas and chlorites. Kiev, Naukova Dumka. 297 pages.

• Hall JA (1941) The relation between colour and chemical composition in the biotites. Am Mineral 26, 29-33.
• Grum-Grzhimaylo SV, Anikina EN, Belova EN, Tolstikhina KI (1955) Curves of spectral absorption and other physical constants of natural micas. Zapiski Vsesoyuznogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva 9, 90-119. 
• Marfunin AS, Mineeva RM, Mkrtchyan AR, Nyussik YM, Fedorov VE (1967) Optical and Moessbauer spectroscopy of iron in rock-​forming silicates. Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Geologicheskaya (1967), 86-102. (In Russian)
• Grinchenko VF, Khomenko VM, Zinchenko OV, Platonov AN, Pol'shin EV (1988) Evolution of chromophore centers and the coloration of biotite as indicators of metamorphic and metasomatic processes. Geologicheskii Zhurnal (Russian Edition) 1988, 48-56. (In Russian)

• Marfunin AS, Mineyeva RM, Mkrtchyan AR, Nyussik YM, Fedorov VY (1967) Opticheskaya i messbauerovskaya spektroskopiya zheleza v porodoobrazuyushchikh silikatakh. [Optical and Moessbauer spectroscopy of iron in rock-forming silicates.] Izvestiya Akad Nauk SSSR. Seriya Geologicheskaya 10, 86-102  
• Faye  GH (1968) The optical absorption spectra of iron in six-coordinate sites in chlorite, biotite, phlogopite and vivianite. Some aspects of pleochroism in the sheet silicates. Canadian Mineralogist 9, 403-425.
• Robins DW, Strens RGJ (1968) Polarization- dependence and Oscillator Strengths of Metal-Metal Charge-transfer Bands in Iron( II,III) Silicate Minerals. Chemical Communications 508-509.

• Robbins DW and Strens (1972) Charge-transfer in ferromagnesian silicates: The polarized electronic spectra of trioctahedral micas. Mineralogical Magazine 38, 551-563.
• Smith G, Strens RGJ (1976) Intervalence transfer absorption in some silicate, oxide and phosphate minerals. In: Strens, RGJ, ed, The Physics of Minerals and Rocks. Wiley, New York. pp. 583-612.
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• Smith G (1978) Evidence for absorption by exchange-coupled Fe²⁺-Fe³⁺ pairs in the near infra-red spectra of minerals. Phys Chem Minerals 3, 375-383.
• Kleim W, Lehmann G (1979) A reassignment of the optical absorption bands in biotites. Phys Chem Minerals 4, 65-75.   

• Smith G, Howes B, Hasan Z (1980) Mössbauer and optical spectra of biotite: a case for Fe²⁺-Fe³⁺ interactions. Phys Status Solidi (a), 57, K187-K192.
• Seal M, Vance ER, Demago B (1981) Optical spectra of giant radiohaloes in Madagascan biotite. Amer Mineral 66, 358-361.
• Grinchenko VF, Khomenko VM, Zinchenko OV, Platonov AN, Pol’shin EV (1988) Evolution of chromophore centers and the coloration of biotite as indicators of metamorphic and metasomatic processes. Geolog Zhurnal 1988:48-56 (in Russian)
• Khomenko VM, Grinchenko VF, Platonov AN, Zinchenko OV (1988) Nature and typomorphism of the color of biotite from granitic complexes (as exemplified by the northwestern Ukrainian Shield).  Mineralogicheskii Zhurnal, 10(4), 23-31. (in Russian).
• Khomenko VM, Grinchenko VF, Platonov AN, Zinchenko OV (1988) Priroda i tipomorfnoye znacheniye okraski biotita granitoidnykh kompleksov (na primere severo-zapada Ukrainskogo shchita).  [The nature and typomorphical significance of biotite coloration: Example of northwestern Ukrainian Shield.] Mineralogicheskiy Zh 10:23-31 
• Khomenko VM, Platonov AN, Shcherbakov IB, Belevtsev RY, Belichenko VP (1989) Color of biotite as an indicator of facies metamorphism conditions. Mineralogicheskii Zhurnal 11, 36-44 (in Russian),

• lchenko EA, Grinchenko CF, Khomenko VM, Zinchenko OV (1990) Crystallochemical peculiarities of biotites in the northwestern part of the Ukrainian Shield by data from IR and optical spectroscopy. Mineralogicheskiy Zhurnal 12, 8-18 (in Russian). 
• Khomenko VM, Galiy SA, Kogut KV, Grinchenko VF (1991) Geneticheskiye aspekty opticheskoy spektroskopii porodoobrazuyushchikh temnotsvetnykh mineralov mafit-ul'tramafitovykh kompleksov severo-zapada Ukrainskogo shchita. [Genetic aspects of optical spectroscopy of rock-forming dark-colored minerals of mafic-ultramafic complexes of the southwestern Ukrainian Shield.] Mineralogicheskiy Zh 13, 22-30.
• Khomenko VM (1994) Optical absorption spectra of rock-forming biotites and phlogopites. Abstract: 16th General Meeting of the Internationall Mineralogical Association 16, 202.
• Rüscher CH, Schrader G (1996) Temperature dependence of small polaron absorption in biotites. Phys Chem Mineral 23:243-245.
• Taran MN, Langer K, Platonov AN (1996) Pressure- and temperature-effects on exchange-coupled-pair bands in electronic spectra of some oxygen-based iron-bearing minerals. Physics and Chemistry of Minerals 23, 230-236.
  
• Langer K, Khomenko VM (1999) The influence of crystal field stabilization energy on Fe²⁺ partitioning in paragenetic minerals. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 137, 220-231.

• Nasdala L, Wenzel M, Andrut M, Wirth R, Blaum P (2001) The nature of radiohaloes in biotite: Experimental studies and modeling. Amer Mineral 86, 498-512.
• Rüscher CH (2012) Temperature-dependent absorption of biotite: small-polaron hopping and other fundamental electronic excitations. European Journal of MIneralogy 24, 817-822.
  

• Manning PG (1969) On the origin of colour and pleochroism of astrophyllite and brown clintonite. Canadian Mineral 9, 663-677.

• Faye GH (1968) The optical absorption spectra of certain transition metal ions in muscovite, lepidolite and fuchsite. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 5, 31-38. https://doi.org/10.1139/e68-003.
• Reddy SL, Subba Reddy RR, Reddy GS, Rao PS, Reddy BJ (2003) Optical absorption and EPR spectra of fuchsite. Spectrochimica acta. Part A, Molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy 59, 2603-2609.
• Sanchez NA, Reddy BJ, Nieto F (2004) Spectroscopic study of chromium, iron, OH, fluid and mineral inclusions in uvarovite and fuchsite. Spectrochimica acta. Part A, Molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy 60, 2261-8.  
  
• Blumentritt F, Notari F, Becouze M, Vigier M, Zuber G, Caplan C, Fritsch E (2024) Gem-quality Green Cryptocrystalline Muscovite (Fuchsite) from Ya’an Prefecture, Sichuan, China. The Journal of Gemmology 39, 66-76.

• Faye GH (1968) The optical absorption spectra of certain transition metal ions in muscovite, lepidolite and fuchsite. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 5, 31-38. https://doi.org/10.1139/e68-003.
• Platonov AN, Khomenko VM, Tarashchan AN (2012) Crystallochemistry and spectroscopy of manganese ions in mica. Mineralogicl Journal (Ukraine) 34, 3-21. (In Ukranian) 

• Marfunin AS, Mineeva RM, Mkrtchyan AR, Nyussik YM, Fedorov VE (1967) Optical and Moessbauer spectroscopy of iron in rock-​forming silicates. Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Geologicheskaya (1967), 86-102. (In Russian)
• Robbins DW and Strens (1972) Charge-transfer in ferromagnesian silicates: The polarized electronic spectra of trioctahedral micas. Mineralogical Magazine 38, 551-563.

• Burns RG (1970) Mineralogical Applications of Crystal Field Theory. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 
• Platonov AN, Khomenko VM, Tarashchan AN (2012) Crystallochemistry and spectroscopy of manganese ions in mica. Mineralogical Journal (Ukraine) 34, 3-21. (In Ukranian) 

• Popper P (1951) Transmission of natural and synthetic mica in the ultra-violet. Nature 168, 1119-1120. 
• Grum-Grzhimaylo SV, Anikina EN, Belova EN, Tolstikhina KI (1955) Curves of spectral absorption and other physical constants of natural micas. Zapiski Vsesoyuznogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva 9, 90-119.
• Dobrowolski JA (1959) Mica interference filters with transmission bands of very narrow half-widths. Journal of the Optical Society of America, 49, 794-806.    

• Faye GH (1968) The optical absorption spectra of certain transition metal ions in muscovite, lepidolite and fuchsite. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 5, 31-38. https://doi.org/10.1139/e68-003.
  

• Karickhoff SW, Bailey GW (1973) Optical absorption spectra of clay minerals. Clays and Clay Minerals 21, 59-70.
• Richardson SM (1975) A pink muscovite with reverse pleochroism from Archer's Post, Kenya. American Mineralogist 60, 73-78.
• Annersten H, Hålenius U (1976) Ion distributionin pink muscovite a discussion. American Mineralogist 61, 1045-1050.
• Richardson SM (1976) Ion distribution in pink muscovite: a reply. American Mineralogist 61, l05l-1052.

• Finch J, Gainsford AR, Tennant WC (1982) Polarized optical absorption and ⁵⁷Fe Mössbauer study of pegmatitic muscovite. American Mineralogist 67, 59-68. 
• Schmetzer K (1982) Absorption spectroscopy and color of vanadium(3+)-bearing natural oxides and silicates - a contribution to the crystal chemistry of vanadium. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie - Abhandlungen 144, 73-106 .
• Calas G, Manceau A, Novikoff A, Boukili H (1984) Comportement du chrome dans les minéraux d'altération du gisement de Campo Formoso (Bahia, Brásil). Bull Minéral 107, 755-766.
• Bakhtin AI, Bulatov FM (1985) Ferric-ion distribution in the mica structure from NQR and optical-spectra data (in Russian). Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika 28, 109-10.
• Rumyantseva EV (1985) O nekotorykh mineralakh khromo-vanadiyevykh slyuditov Karelii. Zapiski Vsesoiuznogo mineralogicheskogo obshchestva. 114, 55-62. (About some chromo- vanadio-minerals from Slyuditov, Karelia.) (In Russian) 
• Bukanov VV, Kolmogorov AA, Belichenko VP, Platonov AN (1989) Violet kataranskite and the nature of its color. Zap Vses Mineralogich Obshchestva 118, 104-110 (In Russian).
• Rudenko SS, Sakharov AN (1989) Ob okraske zhelezosoderzhashchikh muskovitov. [The color of iron- bearing muscovite.] Voprosy Geokhimii i Tipomorfizm Mineralov 4, 150-162. (In Russian) 

• Yao S, Abe A, Ito H (1993) Optical absorption spectra and chemical composition of Indian ruby muscovite. Nendo Kagaku [= Journal Clay Science Society of Japan] 33, 92-101. 
• Bonev IK, Platonov AN, Stefanov D (1996) Green chromian mica mariposite from the Madan hydrothermal lead-zinc deposits. Geokhimiya Mineralogiya Petrologiya 31, 51-59 (in Bulgarian)
• Platonov AN, Langer K, Andrut M, Calas G (1996) Cr³⁺ in phyllosilicates: Influence of the nature of coordinating ligands and their next cationic neighbors on the crystal field parameters. Mineral Spectroscopy: A tribute to Roger G. Burns. The Geochemical Society, Special Publication No. 5. Dyar MD and Schaefer MW eds, pp 41-48.

• Reddy SL, Subba REddy RR, Reddy GS, Rao PS, REddy BJ (2003) Optical absorption and EPR spectra of fuchsite. Spectrochimica acta. Part A, Molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy 59, 2603-9.   
• Platonov AN, Shuriga TN (2005) Otpical spectra and color of muscovites from rare-metal deposits. Mineralogichnii Zhurnal 27, 73-80 (In Russian).

• Platonov AN, Khomenko VM, Tarashchan AN (2012) Crystallochemistry and spectroscopy of manganese ions in mica. Mineralogical Journal (Ukraine) 34, 3-21. (In Ukranian)       
• Ertl A, Rakovan J, Hughes JM, Bernhardt H-J, Rossman GR (2019) Vanadium-rich muscovite from Austria: Crystal structure, chemical analysis, and spectroscopic investigations. Canadian Mineralogist, 57(3), 383–389, https://doi.org/10.3749/ canmin.1900020
  

• Blumentritt F, Notari F, Becouze M, Vigier M, Zuber G, Caplan C, Fritsch E (2024) Gem-quality Green Cryptocrystalline Muscovite (Fuchsite) from Ya’an Prefecture, Sichuan, China. The Journal of Gemmology 39, 66-76.
  

• Eggleton RA, Ashley PM (1989) Norrishite, a new manganese mica, K(Mn₂³⁺Li)Si₄O₁₂ from the Hoskins mine, New South Wales, Australia. American Mineralogist 74, 1360-1367.

• Chadwick KM, Shen AH (2008) Green mica (paragonite) from Pakistan. Gems & Gemology 44, 172-173.

• Ankinovitch EA, Bakhtin AI, Bekenova GK, Kompaneytzev VP, Lopatin ON, Kotelnikov PE (1992) New vanadium(4+)-barium variety of phengite. Zapiski Vserossiiskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva 121, 61-9. (In Russian)
• Platonov AN, Khomenko VM, Tarashchan AN (2012) Crystallochemistry and spectroscopy of manganese ions in mica. Mineralogical Journal (Ukraine) 34, 3-21. (In Ukranian) 

• Grum-Grzhimailo SV, Rimskaya-Korsakva OM (1964): Absorption spectra of phlogopite holding trivalent iron in fourfold coordination. Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 156, 123-125.
• Faye GH (1968) The optical absorption spectra of certain transition metal ions in muscovite, lepidolite and fuchsite. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 5, 31-38.
• Faye GH and Hogarth DD (1969) On the origin of 'reverse pleochroism' of a phlogopite. Canadian Mineralogist 25-34.
• Hogarth DD, Brown FF, Pritchard AM (1970) Biabsorption, Mossbauer spectra and chemical investigation of five phlogopite samples from Quebec. Canadian Mineralogist 10, 710-722.
• Robbins DW and Strens (1972) Charge-transfer in ferromagnesian silicates: The polarized electronic spectra of trioctahedral micas. Mineralogical Magazine 38, 551-563.
• Karickhoff SW, Bailey GW (1973) Optical absorption spectra of clay minerals. Clays and Clay Minerals 21, 59-70.
• Bakhtin AI, Vinokurov VM (1978) Exchange-coupled pairs of transition metal ions and their effect on the optical absorption spectra of rock-forming silicates. Geochemistry International 1979, 53-60. (translated from Geokhimiya 1, 87-95).
• Bakhtin AI (1980) Crystal chemistry of tetraferriphlogopites based on optical spectroscopy. Geokhimiya 1980: 910-914. (In Russian)
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• Khomenko VM, Platonov AN, Krasnova NI (1991) Optical properties of phlogopites from the Kovdor Massif. Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Ser Geologich (1991) 12, 94-105.
• Taran MN, Langer K, Platonov AN (1996) Pressure- and temperature-effects on exchange-coupled-pair bands in electronic spectra of some oxygen-based iron-bearing minerals. Physics and Chemistry of Minerals 23, 230-236.
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• Platonov AN, Tarashchan AN (1973) Optical spectroscopy of vanadium in natural minerals. III. Absorption spectra of vanadium(4+) and vanadium(3+) complexes. Konstitutsiya i Svoistva Mineralov 7, 75-81. In Russian
• Schmetzer K (1982) Absorptionsspektkroskopie und Farbe von V³⁺-haltigen natürlichen Oxiden und Silikaten - ein Beitrag zur Kristallcheime des Vanadiums. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie - Abhandlungen 144, 73-106.

• Platonov AN, Khomenko VM, Tarashchan AN (2012) Crystallochemistry and spectroscopy of manganese ions in mica. Mineralogical Journal (Ukraine) 34, 3-21. (In Ukranian)         
  

• Rossman GR (1984) Spectroscopy of Micas. In: S.W. Bailey, ed., Micas. Reviews in Mineralogy 13, 145-181.