Correlative microscopy is an approach which benefits from imaging of the same object by different techniques. Correlation between the data, measured by two or more independent methods, can provide a piece of further information about the sample, which could be too complicated to analyze by those methods separately.
In the present work we report the full structural and spectroscopic characterization of an UICC crocidolite standard sample, that is a fibrous riebeckite from Koegas Mine, Northern Cape (South Africa). The chemical composition was obtained by SEM-EDS and cation site partition was retrieved by complementing chemical, Mössbauer and X-ray powder diffraction data. Cell parameters, fractional coordinates, and site scattering for M(1), M(2), M(3), M(4) were refined using the Rietveld method.
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