Metacinnabar R060950
Name: Metacinnabar
RRUFF ID: R060950
Ideal Chemistry: HgS
Locality: Ryan mine, Contra Costa County, California, USA
Source: Bob Jenkins [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Dark orange brown submetallic crystals
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction.
CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R060950.2
Sample Description: Microprobe Fragment
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 785nm @ 100% of 500mW
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RRUFF ID: R060950
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW
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POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R060950.9
Sample Description: Single crystal, powder profile is calculated
Cell Refinement Output: a: 5.841(3)Å    b: 5.841(3)Å    c: 5.841(3)Å
alpha: 90°    beta: 90°    gamma: 90°   Volume: 199.30(6)    Crystal System: cubic
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Calculated diffraction file.

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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Metacinnabar

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]

Potter R W, Barnes H L (1978) Phase relations in the binary Hg-S, American Mineralogist, 63, 1143-1152   [view file]

Borisov S V, Magarill S A, Pervukhina N V (2009) Characteristic features of crystal chemistry of natural mercury-containing sulides and sulfosalts, Journal of Structural Chemistry, 50, 853-860