Anatacamite R100198

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Name: Anatacamite
RRUFF ID: R100198
Ideal Chemistry: Cu₂Cl(OH)₃
Locality: La Vendida Mine (Rio Tinto Mine), Caracoles, Sierra Gorda District, Tocopilla Province, Antofagasta Region, Chile
Source: Bob Jenkins [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Lighter green thin tabular crystals forming v-twins perched on darker green blocky atacamite, associated with black paratacamite
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction.

RAMAN SPECTRUM

RRUFF ID:

Sample Description:

Unoriented Raman on the primary sample

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BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS

RRUFF ID:

R100198

Wavelength:

Sample Description:

Unoriented Raman on the primary sample

Instrument settings:

Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW

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POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R100198.9

Sample Description:

Single crystal, powder profile is calculated

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 9.160(2)Å b: 9.182(3)Å c: 9.185(3)Å
alpha: 96.18(1)° beta: 96.40(2)° gamma: 96.33(1)° Volume: 757.3(2) Crystal System: triclinic

File Type Information

Calculated diffraction file.

File Type Information

Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Anatacamite
American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record]
Williams P A, Hatert F, Pasero M (2009) New minerals approved in 2009, in International Mineralogical Association 1-34 [view file]
Malcherek T, Schlüter J (2010) Anatacamite from La Vendida mine, Sierra Gorda, Atacama desert, Chile: a triclinic polymorph of Cu₂(OH)₃Cl, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Abhandlungen, 187, 307-312