Witherite [ BaCO3 ]
Images of Witherite
Material properties
| Formula | BaCO3 |
| Abbreviation | Wth |
| IMA Status | Grandfathered (pre-IMA), 1789 |
| Crystal symmetry | Orthorhombic |
| Classifications | Aragonite (group), Minerals containing CO3 |
| Related materials | Barium carbonate |
| Luminescence emitters | Dy, Eu, Gd, Mn, O, Triplet-singlet, Unspecified |
| Spectra | Luminescence (1), SXES (1) |
| Search other databases | webmineral.com, mindat.org, rruf.info, fluomin.org, mineralienatlas.de, Handbook of Mineralogy, American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database |
| Tags | Carbonate, Mineral |
Composition
| Element | Atoms |
|---|---|
| C | 1 |
| Ba | 1 |
| O | 3 |
| Total: | 5 |
References for Witherite
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Lines | Spectra | Images | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CSIRO SXES database | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Gaft et al. 2001 | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Gorobets and Rogojine 2002 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Griffith 1974 | 10 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Marshall 1988 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| CSIRO CL spectra 2016 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Tarashchan 1978 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Specimens of Witherite
| Name | Owner | Materials | Phase purity | Image | Spectra | Techniques |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M2291 Witherite | CSIRO | Witherite (100.0%) | 100.0 | 0 | — | |
| NR-WIT-01b Witherite | CSIRO | Witherite (100.0%) | 100.0 | 0 | — | |
| BaCO3 Hyper2-27 | CSIRO | Barium carbonate, Witherite | — | 1 | SXES | |
| P-0311 BaCO3 | CSIRO | Witherite | — | 0 | — |
