Lillianite R110141
Name: Lillianite
RRUFF ID: R110141
Ideal Chemistry: Pb3-2xAgxBi2+xS6
Locality: Pedro claim, King County, Washington, USA
Source: Rob Lavinsky
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Elongated prismatic silver gray metallic crystal, with severe exterior corrosion associated with aikinite, galena, neyite, and gustavite
Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis.
Mineral Group: [ Lillianite (17) ]
CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R110141.2
Sample Description: Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry: Pb1.82Ag0.62Cu0.04(Bi2.66Sb0.01)∑=2.67S6
Microprobe Data File: [ Download Excel File ]
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented Raman on the primary sample
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Sample Description: Unoriented Raman on the primary sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 40% of 150mW
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POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R110141.9
Sample Description: Single crystal, powder profile is calculated
Cell Refinement Output: a: 13.517(2)Å    b: 20.027(3)Å    c: 4.0997(6)Å
alpha: 90°    beta: 90°    gamma: 90°   Volume: 1109.8(4)Å3    Crystal System: orthorhombic
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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Lillianite

American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record]

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Fleischer M (1969) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 54, 573-580   [view file]

Takagi J, Takéuchi Y (1972) The crystal structure of lillianite, Acta Crystallographica, B28, 649-651

Makovicky E, Karup-Møller S (1977) Chemistry and crystallography of the lillianite homologous series. Part II: Definition of new minerals: eskimoite, vikingite, ourayite, and treasurite. Redefinition of schirmerite and new data on the lillianite-gustavite solid solution series, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Abhandlungen, 131, 56-82

Makovicky E, Karup-Møller S (1977) Crystal chemistry and crystallography of the lillianite homologous series. Part I: General properties and definitions, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Abhandlungen, 130, 264-287

Makovicky E (1977) Chemistry and crystallography of the lillianite homologous series Part III. Crystal chemistry of lillianite homologues. Related Phases, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Abhandlungen, 131, 187-207

Moëlo Y, Marcoux E, Makovicky E, Karup-Møller S, Legendre O (1987) Homologues de la lillianite (gustavite, vikingite, heyrovskyite riche en Ag et Bi...) de l'indice à W-As-(Pb,Bi,Ag) de La Roche-Balue (Loire Atlantique, France), Bulletin de Minéralogie, 110, 43-64   [view file]

Borodaev Y S, Garavelli A, Garbarino C, Grillo S M, Mozgova N N, Uspenskaya T Y, Vurro F (2001) Rare sulfosalts from Vulcano, Aeolian Islands, Italy. IV. Lillianite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 39, 1383-1396   [view file]

Pinto D, Balić-Žunić T, Garavelli A, Makovicky E, Vurro F (2006) Comparative crystal-structure study of Ag-free lillianite and galenobismutite from Vulcano, Aeolian Islands, Italy, The Canadian Mineralogist, 44, 159-175   [view file]

Moëlo Y, Makovicky E, Mozgova N N, Jambor J L, Cook N, Pring A, Paar W, Nickel E H, Graeser S, Karup-Møller S, Balic-Zunic T, Mumme W G, Vurro F, Topa D, Bindi L, Bente K, Shimizu M (2008) Sulfosalt systematics: a review. Report of the sulfosalt sub-committee of the IMA Commission on Ore Mineralogy, European Journal of Mineralogy, 20, 7-46   [view file]

Olsen L A, Balić-Žunić T, Makovicky E (2008) High-pressure anisotropic distortion of Pb3Bi2S6: a pressure-induced, reversible phase transition with migration of chemical bonds, Inorganic Chemistry, 47, 6756-6762

Pažout R, Dušek M (2010) Crystal structure of natural orthorhombic Ag0.71Pb1.52Bi1.32Sb1.45S6, a lillianite homologue with N = 4; comparison with gustavite, European Journal of Mineralogy, 22, 741-750

Mitolo D, Capitani G C, Garavelli A, Pinto D (2011) Transmission electron microscopy investigation of Ag-free lillianite and heyrovskýite from Vulcano, Aeolian Islands, Italy, American Mineralogist, 96, 288-300   [view file]

Izumino Y, Nakashima K, Nagashima M (2014) Cuprobismutite group minerals (cuprobismutite, hodrušhite, kupčíkite and padĕrite), other Bi-sulfosalts and Bi-tellurides from the Obari mine, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan, Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences, 109, 177-190

Makovicky E, Topa D (2014) Lillianites and andorites: new life for the oldest homologous series of sulfosalts, Mineralogical Magazine, 78, 387-414

Makovicky E (2019) Algorithms for calculations of homologue order N in the homologous series of sulfosalts, European Journal of Mineralogy, 31, 83-97

Zucchini A, Balić-Žunić T, Collings I E, Hanfland M, Comodi P (2022) High-pressure single-crystal synchrotron X-ray diffraction study of lillianite, American Mineralogist, 107, 1752-1759