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Cuproiridsite R070035


 Name: Cuproiridsite
RRUFF ID: R070035
Ideal Chemistry: Cu(Ir3+Ir4+)S4
Locality: Miass River, Urals, Russia
Source: Michael Scott S105084 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Iron-black metallic polished fragment embedded in epoxy
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by chemical analysis
Mineral Group: [ Spinel (66) ]
CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R070035.2
Sample Description: Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry: gray inclusion in the dark phase: (Cu0.67Ni0.17Fe0.16)Σ=1(Ir1.94Pt0.04Ru0.02)Σ=2S4.00 trace amounts of Os.
Microprobe Data File: [ Download Excel File ]
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
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RRUFF ID: R070035
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW
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REFERENCES for Cuproiridsite

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]

Frenzel A (1893) Ueber den Kylindrit, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Palaontologie, 2, 125-128   [view file]

Rudashevsky N S, Men'shikov Y P, Mochalov A G, Trubkin N V, Shumskaya N I, and Zhdanov V V (1985) Cuprorhodsite CuRh2S4 and cuproiridsite CuIr2S4 - new natural thiospinels of platinum-group elements, Zapiski Vsesoyuznogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva, 114, issue 2 187-195   [view file]

Hawthorne F C, Fleischer M, Grew E S, Grice J D, Jambor J L, Puziewicz J, Roberts A C, Vanko D A, Zilczer J A (1986) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 71, 1277-1282   [view file]

Garuti G, Gazzotti M, Torres-Ruiz J (1995) Iridium, rhodium, and platinum sulfides in chromitites from the ultramafic massifs of Finero, Italy, and Ojen, Spain, The Canadian Mineralogist, 33, 509-520   [view file]

Bowles J F W, Suárez S, Prichard H M, Fisher P C (2018) The mineralogy, geochemistry and genesis of the alluvial platinum-group minerals of the Freetown Layered Complex, Sierra Leone, Mineralogical Magazine, 82, S223-S246

Bosi F, Biagioni C, Pasero M (2019) Nomenclature and classification of the spinel supergroup, European Journal of Mineralogy, 31, 183-192   [view file]