Proustite R060356

Name: Proustite
RRUFF ID: R060356
Ideal Chemistry: Ag₃AsS₃
Locality: Chanarcillo, Atacama Province, Chile
Source: Herb Obodda 040 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Red scalenohedral crystal
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis

CHEMISTRY

RRUFF ID:	R060356.2
Sample Description:	Microprobe fragment
Measured Chemistry:	Ag_3.01As_0.99S_3.00

RAMAN SPECTRUM

RRUFF ID:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

Instrument settings:

Thermo Almega XR 785nm @ 30% of 500 mW

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	Raman Data (Processed)
	RRUFF File
	Raman Data (RAW)
	RRUFF File

POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R060356.1

Sample Description:

Powder

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 10.8418(8)Å b: 10.8418(8)Å c: 8.720(1)Å
alpha: 90.° beta: 90.° gamma: 120.° Volume: 887.7(1) Crystal System: hexagonal

File Type Information

Calculated diffraction file.

File Type Information

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

File Type Information

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

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	Cell Refinement Data
	Cell Refinement Output Data
	DIF File
	X-ray Data (XY - Processed)
	RRUFF File
	X-ray Data (XY - RAW)
	RRUFF File

REFERENCES for Proustite
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]
Beudant F S (1832) Proustite, argent antimonié sulfuré en partie, in Traité Élémentaire de Minéralogie, 2nd Edition Paris 445-447 [view file]
Engel P, Nowacki W (1966) Die verfeinerung der kristallstruktur von proustit, Ag₃AsS₃, und pyrargyrit, Ag₃SbS₃, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1966, 181-184
Allen S (1985) Phase transitions in proustite I. Structural studies, Phase Transitions, 6, 1-24