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Isoferroplatinum R080067
Name: Isoferroplatinum
RRUFF ID: R080067
Ideal Chemistry: Pt3Fe
Locality: Chocó Department, Colombia
Source: Michael Scott S102376 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Black metallic grains embedded in epoxy
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by chemical analysis
Mineral Groups: [ Auricupride (3) ] [ Perovskite (44) ]
CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R080067.2
Sample Description: Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry: (Pt2.80Ir0.11Pd0.07Os0.02)Σ=3(Fe0.90Cu0.10)Σ=1; trace amounts of Ru and Rh
Microprobe Data File: [ Download Excel File ]
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
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RRUFF ID: R080067
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW
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REFERENCES for Isoferroplatinum

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]

Cabri L J, Feather C E (1975) Platinum-iron alloys: a nomenclature based on a study of natural and synthetic alloys, The Canadian Mineralogist, 13, 117-126   [view file]

Fleischer M, Chao G Y, Mandarino J A (1976) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 61, 338-341   [view file]

Distler V V, Bityutskaya L A, Kryachko V V, Yudovskaya M A, Grechkina M V, Bogatikov E V (2006) The nanoblock structure of natural isoferroplatinum (Pt3Fe) and problem of quasicrystalline state of some platinum group minerals, Doklady Earth Sciences, 407, 335-338

Parman S W, Diercks D R, Gorman B P, Cooper R F (2015) Atom probe tomography of isoferroplatinum, American Mineralogist, 100, 852-860

Mitchell R H, Welch M D, Chakhmouradian A R (2017) Nomenclature of the perovskite supergroup: A hierarchical system of classification based on crystal structure and composition, Mineralogical Magazine, 81, 411-461   [view file]

Bowles J F W, Suárez S, Prichard H M, Fisher P C (2018) Inclusions in an isoferroplatinum nugget from the Freetown Layered Complex, Sierra Leone, Mineralogical Magazine, 82, 577–592