Claudetite R050313
Name: Claudetite
RRUFF ID: R050313
Ideal Chemistry: As2O3
Locality: Jáchymov, Erzgebirge Region, Czech Republic
Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 16128 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Colorless prismatic crystals scattered on the matrix
Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis.
CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R050313.2
Sample Description: Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry: As2.00O3 ; trace amounts of Al, gray phase
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RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 65% of 150mW
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POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R050313.9
Sample Description: Single crystal, powder profile is calculated
Cell Refinement Output: a: 5.248(2)Å    b: 12.964(4)Å    c: 4.509(2)Å
alpha: 90°    beta: 94.06(3)°    gamma: 90°   Volume: 306.0(6)Å3    Crystal System: monoclinic
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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Claudetite

American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record]

Anthony J W, Bideaux R A, Bladh K W, and Nichols M C (1990) Handbook of Mineralogy, Mineral Data Publishing, Tucson Arizona, USA, by permission of the Mineralogical Society of America. [view file]

Dana J D, Brush G J (1868) Claudetite, in A System of Mineralogy, Fifth Edition John Wiley and Sons New York 796-796   [view file]

Palache C (1934) Contributions to crystallography: Claudetite; minasragrite; samsonite; native selenium; indium, American Mineralogist, 19, 194-205   [view file]

Becker K A, Plieth K, Stranski I N (1951) Strukturuntersuchung der monoklinen arsenikmodifikation claudetit, Zeitschrift für Anorganische und Allgemeine Chemie, 266, 293-301

Strunz H (1959) Tsumeb, seine Erze und Sekundärmineralien, insbesondere der neu aufgeschlossenen zweiten Oxydationszone, Fortschritte der Mineralogie, 37, 87-90

Pertlik F (1975) Die kristallstruktur der monoklinen form von As2O3 (claudetit II), Monatshefte für Chemie, 106, 755-762

Flynn E J, Solin S A, Papatheodorou G N (1976) Vibrational excitations of As2O3. II. Crystalline phases, Physical Review B, 13, 1752-1758

Treacy D J, Taylor P C (1981) Nuclear quadrupole resonance in two crystalline forms of As2O3, arsenolite and claudetite I, Solid State Communications, 40, 135-138

Gilliam S J, Merrow C N, Kirkby S J, Jensen J O, Zeroka D, Banerjee A (2003) Raman spectroscopy of arsenolite: crystalline cubic As4O6, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 173, 54-58

Soignard E, Amin S A, Mei Q, Benmore C J, Yarger J L (2008) High-pressure behavior of As2O3: Amorphous-amorphous and crystalline-amorphous transitions, Physical Review B, 77, 144113-8

Gibbs G V, Wallace A F, Cox D F, Dove P M, Downs R T, Ross N L, Rosso K M (2009) Role of directed van der Waals bonded interactions in the determination of the structures of molecular arsenate solids, Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 113, 736-749   [view file]

Origlieri M J, Downs R T, Pinch W W, Zito G L (2009) Stibioclaudetite AsSbO3 a new mineral from Tsumeb, Namibia, The Mineralogical Record, 40, 209-213   [view file]

Kolitsch U, Rieck B, Brandstätter F, Schreiber F, Fabritz K, Blaß G, Gröbner J (2014) Neufunde aus dem alten Bergbau und den Schlacken von Lavrion (I), Mineralien Welt, 1, 60-75