E&ES 220. Mineralogy
This course is offered every Fall.

Instructor: Stephen Guggenheim
     Office: 2466 SES
     Office hours: I have a open door policy. If the T.A. cannot help, please come in and see me.
      Tel: 312-996-3263 (Call only if you are sick for an exam, otherwise use E-mail.)
      E-mail: XTAL@UIC.EDU   I encourage you to use E-mail to communicate with me, especially if you cannot come in.

Class: Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:30 to 12:20.

T.A.: not yet assigned

Required texts: Manual of Mineralogy by Klein and Hurlbut (K & H), 21st edition (22nd edition, if available)

Required background:
Elementary chemistry
(Ch. 8 of Bloss, Crystallography and Crystal Chemistry is a good review)

Supplemental text worth looking over:
F.D. Bloss, Crystallography and Crystal Chemistry: An Introduction, Holt, Reinhart & Winston Publishers,
1971 (Congressional code for library stacks QD905.2B56)

Exams: Expect a quiz in laboratory almost every day. These may be cover material from either lectures or laboratories.

             Tentative exam schedule is: Combined first
                                                                  lab/lecture exam
                                                                  Second lab exam
                                                                  Second Lecture exam
                                                                  Third lab exam
                                                                  Final exam (lecture)

Lecture Schedule

1. External symmetry: symmetry with respect to a plane, line, and point, K & H: p. 1-26
rotation axes, combining symmetry.

2. Crystal systems and classes, Hermann Mauguin symbols K & H: p. 26-32,
37-39, 63-100

3. Point group derivations, Miller indices K & H: p. 42

4. Unit cells, Bravais lattices, translational symmetry in 3 dimensions K & H: p. 108-117, 122-129

5. Internal symmetry, translational symmetry, special positions K & H: p. 129-146

6. Internal symmetry, space groups, equipoints, examples of use

7. Light: wave theory, Index of refraction, Snell's Law, polarized light, K & H: p. 289-295
Dispersion

8. The microscope: resolution, angular aperture, measuring n
(Becke line, relief), Indicatrix: isotropic and other materials

9. Principles of crystal structures: Metallic, ionic, covalent crystals, K & H: p. 170-191
closest packing, ionic radii p. 201-210

***Laboratory/Lecture Exam 1 (includes most portions of lectures and labs through lecture 8)

10. Radius ratio, Pauling's rules, isostructuralism, derivative structures K & H: p. 191-201, 147-153,
210-212

11. Impurities, solid solution K & H: p. 233-235

12. Formula calculations K & H: p. 240-259
see handouts also
13. Formula calculations, physical properties

14. X-ray crystallography K & H: Ch. 7

15. X-ray crystallography K & H: Ch. 7

16. Phase transformations: one component systems, two component systems,                  K & H: p. 100-106, 164-168,
       polymorphs, zoning, exsolution, twinning                                                                                 p. 236-240, 309-312
                                                                                                                                                    p. 315-324

17. Silicate mineralogy: overview Orthosilicates (nesosilicates): olivine K & H: p. 440-474

***Lecture Exam (includes lectures 9 through 16)
***Laboratory Exam

18. Orthosilicaates: garnets, aluminosilicaaates

19. Chain silicates: pyroxenes/pyroxenoids K & H: p. 475-488

20. Double chain silicaates: amphiboles K & H: p. 488-498

21. Phyllosilicates K & H: p. 153,158-159,
498-524
22. Clay minerals (phyllosilicates) and zeolites (Framework structures)

23. Framework structures: Feldspars, feldspathoids K & H: p. 532-550

24. Framework structures: Silica minerals K & H: p. 524-532, 550-557

***Thanksgiving - No Class

25. Carbonates K & H: p. 423-439

26. Oxides, Sulfides K & H: p. 372-398

***December 3 -- Laboratory Exam, all inclusive for minerals!

Laboratory Schedule

Week Reading
Assignment

1 & 2 Symmetry

2 & 3 Point groups

4 Petrographic microscope and Becke lines

5 Native elements, halides, and sulfides K & H: 334-350, 398-402

5 Exam covering through the microscope lab

6 Sulfides, sulfates, phosphates K & H: 350-371

7 Oxides and carbonates K & H: 372-398

8 Identification of minerals by X-ray diffraction

9 X-ray diffraction study of transformations and solid solutions

10 Exam

11 orthosilicates, sorosilicaates, cyclosilicates K & H: 403-422
K & H: 444-474

12 chain silicaates Layer silicates K & H: 474-498
K & H: 498-524

13 framework silicates K & H: 524-557

13 & 14 X-ray diffraction study of clay minerals

15 Exam - Mineral identification, all inclusive + all other lab work since the last exam.