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Bradaczekite R070029
Name: Bradaczekite
RRUFF ID: R070029
Ideal Chemistry: NaCuCuCu2(AsO4)3
Locality: main fracture, N breakthrough, Tolbachik Volcano, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia
Source: Michael Scott S105114 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Dark blue poorly developed crystals forming a crust
Status: The identification of this mineral is not yet confirmed.
Mineral Group: [ Alluaudite (22) ]
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
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RRUFF ID: R070029
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW
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REFERENCES for Bradaczekite

American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record]

Filatov S K, Vergasova L P, Gorskaya M G, Krivovichev S V, Burns P C, Ananiev V V (2001) Bradaczekite, NaCu4(AsO4)3, a new mineral species from the Tolbachik Volcano, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 39, 1115-1119   [view file]

Krivovichev S V, Filatov S K, Burns P C (2001) The Jahn-Teller distortion of copper coordination polyhedra in the alluaudite structural type: Crystal structure of bradaczekite, NaCu4(AsO4)3, Zapiski Vserossijskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva, 130, issue 5 1-8   [view file]

Mandarino J A (2001) New minerals, The Canadian Mineralogist, 39, 1751-1760   [view file]

Jambor J L, Roberts A C (2002) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 87, 765-768   [view file]

Pekov I V (2007) New minerals from former Soviet Union countries, 1998-2006: new minerals approved by the IMA commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Almanac, 11, 9-51   [view file]

Filatov S K, Rybin D S, Krivovichev S V, Vergasova L P (2009) Thermal expansion of new arsenate minerals, bradaczekite, NaCu4(AsO4)3, and urusovite, Cu(AsAlO5), Geology of Ore Deposits, 51, 827-832   [view file]

Pekov I V, Koshlykova N N, Zubkova N V, Lykova I S, Britvin S N, Yapaskurt V O, Agakhanov A A, Shchipalkina N V, Turchkova A G, Sidorov E G (2018) Fumarolic arsenates - a special type of arsenic mineralization, European Journal of Mineralogy, 30, 305-322

Hatert F (2019) A new nomenclature scheme for the alluaudite supergroup, European Journal of Mineralogy, 31, 807-822   [view file]