Pyrite R080030 - RRUFF Database: Raman, X-ray, Infrared, and Chemistry

Pyrite R080030

Name: Pyrite
RRUFF ID: R080030
Ideal Chemistry: FeS₂
Locality: Schaft 209, Aue, Niederschlema, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Source: William W. Pinch [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Dark-bronze and blue, tarnished pseudohexagonal prisms; bright grey when a fresh surface is exposed. Associated with wire silver. These crystals were labeled argentopyrite, but are pseudomorphs.
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis

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CHEMISTRY

RRUFF ID:	R080030.2
Sample Description:	Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry:	Fe_1.04Ag_0.01As_0.08S₂
Microprobe Data File:	[ Download Excel File ]

RAMAN SPECTRUM

RRUFF ID:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

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BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS

RRUFF ID:

R080030

Wavelength:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

Instrument settings:

Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW

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POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R080030

Sample Description:

Powder (Mo Radiation)

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 5.4399(9)Å b: 5.4399(9)Å c: 5.4399(9)Å
alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 160.98(8) Crystal System: cubic

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

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REFERENCES for Pyrite
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]
Hill J (1751) Of vitriolic minerals, in A History of the Materia Medica Longman, Hitch and Hawes London 140-147 [view file]
Ramsdell L S (1925) The crystal structure of some metallic sulfides, American Mineralogist, 10, 281-304 [view file]
Oftedal I (1928) Über die Kristallstrukturen der verbindungen RuS₂, OsS₂, MnTe₂ und AuSb₂. Mit einem Anhang über die Gitterkonstant von Pyrit, Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie, 135, 291-299 [view file]
Furuseth S, Selte K, Kjekshus A (1965) Redetermined crystal structures of PdAs₂, PdSb₂, PtP₂, PtAs₂, PtSb₂, α-PtBi₂, and AuSb₂, Acta Chemica Scandinavica, 19, 735-741
Rose E R (1965) Pyrite nodules of the Timagami copper-nickel deposit, The Canadian Mineralogist, 8, 317-324 [view file]
Clendenen R L and Drickamer H G (1966) Lattice parameters of nine oxides and sulfides as a function of pressure, Journal of Chemical Physics, 44, 4223-4228
Sutherland J K (1966) Abstract of paper presented at the eleventh meeting: The chemistry of some New Brunswick pyrites, The Canadian Mineralogist, 8, 674-674 [view file]
Kanehira K, Bachinski D (1967) Shorter communications: Framboidal pyrite and concentric textures in ores of the Tilt Cove Mine, Northeastern Newfoundland, The Canadian Mineralogist, 9, 124-128 [view file]
Sutherland J K (1967) The chemistry of some New Brunswick pyrites, The Canadian Mineralogist, 9, 71-84 [view file]
Nickel E H (1968) Structural stability of minerals with the pyrite, marcasite, arsenopyrite and löllingite structures, The Canadian Mineralogist, 9, 311-321 [view file]
Nickel E H (1969) The application of ligand-field concepts to an understanding of the structural stabilities and solid-solution limits of sulphides and related minerals, Chemical Geology, 5, 233-241
Fleet M E (1970) Structural aspects of the marcasite-pyrite transformation, The Canadian Mineralogist, 10, 225-231 [view file]
Wells J D, Mullens T E (1973) Gold-bearing arsenian pyrite determined by microprobe analysis, Cortez and Carlin Gold mines, Nevada, Economic Geology, 68, 187-201
Ramsden A R (1975) Compositions of coexisting pyrrhotites, pentlandites and pyrites at Spargoville, western Australia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 13, 133-137 [view file]
Wikjord A G, Rummery T E, Doern F E (1976) Crystallization of pyrite from deoxygenated aqueous sulfide solutions at elevated temperature and pressure, The Canadian Mineralogist, 14, 571-573 [view file]
Bayliss P (1977) Crystal structure refinement of a weakly anisotropic pyrite, American Mineralogist, 62, 1168-1172 [view file]
Chen T T (1978) Colloform and framboidal pyrite from the Caribou deposit New Brunswick, The Canadian Mineralogist, 16, 9-15 [view file]
Gait R I (1978) A dominant diploid on a pyrite crystal from Greece, The Canadian Mineralogist, 16, 375-377 [view file]
Pauling L (1978) Covalent chemical bonding of transition metals in pyrite, cobaltite, skutterudite, millerite and related minerals, The Canadian Mineralogist, 16, 447-452 [view file]
Manning P G, Ash L A (1979) Mössbauer spectral studies of pyrite, ferric and high–spin ferrous distributions in sulfide–rich sediments from Moira Lake, Ontario, The Canadian Mineralogist, 17, 111-115 [view file]
Zodrow E L, Wiltshire J, McCandlish K (1979) Hydrated sulfates in the Sydney coalfield of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. II. Pyrite and its alteration products, The Canadian Mineralogist, 17, 63-70 [view file]
Tossell J A, Vaughan D J, Burdett J K (1981) Pyrite, marcasite, and arsenopyrite type minerals: Crystal chemical and structural principles, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 7, 177-184
Campbell F A, Ethier V G (1984) Nickel and cobalt in pyrrhotite and pyrite from the Faro and Sullivan orebodies, The Canadian Mineralogist, 22, 503-506 [view file]
Laufer E E, Scott J D, Packwood R (1985) Inhibition of pyrite growth by amorphous carbon, The Canadian Mineralogist, 23, 57-60 [view file]
Fujii T, Yoshida A, Tanaka K, Marumo F, Noda Y (1986) High pressure compressibilities of pyrite and cattierite, Mineralogical Journal, 13, 202-211 [view file]
Gait R I, Dumka D (1986) Morphology of pyrite from the Nanisivik mine, Baffin Island, Northwest Territories, The Canadian Mineralogist, 24, 685-688 [view file]
Manning P G, Murphy T P, Mayer T, Prepas E E (1988) Effect of copper sulfate on pyrite formation in reducing sediments, The Canadian Mineralogist, 26, 965-972 [view file]
Griffin W L, Ashley P M, Ryan C G, Sie S H, Suter G F (1991) Pyrite geochemistry in the North Arm epithermal Ag-Au deposit, Queensland, Australia: a proton-microprobe study, The Canadian Mineralogist, 29, 185-198 [view file]
Larocque A C L, Hodgson C J, Cabri L J, Jackman J A (1995) Ion-microprobe analysis of pyrite, chalcopyrite and pyrrhotite from the Mobrun VMS deposit in northwestern Quebec: evidence for metamorphic remobilization of gold, The Canadian Mineralogist, 33, 373-388 [view file]
Larocque A C L, Jackman J A, Cabri L J, Hodgson C J (1995) Calibration of the ion microprobe for the determination of silver in pyrite and chalcopyrite from the Mobrun VMS deposit, Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, The Canadian Mineralogist, 33, 361-372 [view file]
Lynch G, Mengel F (1995) Metamorphism of arsenopyrite-pyrite-sphalerite-pyrrhotite lenses, western Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 33, 105-114 [view file]
Barkov A Y, Halkoaho T A A, Laajoki K V O, Alapieti T T, Peura R A (1997) Ruthenian pyrite and nickeloan malanite from the Imandra layered complex, northwestern Russia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 35, 887-897 [view file]
Barkov A Y, Laajoki K V O, Men'shikov Y P, Alapieti T T, Sivonen S J (1997) First terrestrial occurrence of titanium-rich pyrrhotite, marcasite and pyrite in a fenitized xenolith from the Khibina alkaline complex, Russia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 35, 875-885 [view file]
Sasaki K (1997) Raman study of the microbially mediated dissolution of pyrite by Thiobacillus ferrooxidans, The Canadian Mineralogist, 35, 999-1008 [view file]
Lodders K, Klingelhöfer G, Kremser D T (1998) Chloritoid inclusions in pyrite from Navajún, Spain, The Canadian Mineralogist, 36, 137-145 [view file]
Frankel R B, Bazylinski D A (2003) Biologically induced mineralization by bacteria, Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, 54, 95-114
Ondruš P, Veselovský F, Gabašová A, Hloušek J, Šrein V, Vavrín I, Skála R, Sejkora J, Drábek M (2003) Primary minerals of the Jáchymov ore district, Journal of the Czech Geological Society, 48, 19-147 [view file]
Kleppe A K, Jephcoat A P (2004) High-pressure Raman spectroscopic studies of FeS₂ pyrite, Mineralogical Magazine, 68, 433-441 [view file]
Chouinard A, Paquette J, Williams-Jones A E (2005) Crystallographic controls on trace-element incorporation in auriferous pyrite from the Pascua epithermal high-sulfidation deposit, Chile-Argentina, The Canadian Mineralogist, 43, 951-963 [view file]
Reich M, Kesler S E, Utsunomiya S, Palenik C S, Chryssoulis S L, Ewing R C (2005) Solubility of gold in arsenian pyrite, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 69, 2781-2796
Gibbs G V, Cox D F, Rosso K M, Ross N L, Downs R T, Spackman M A (2007) Theoretical electron density distribution for Fe- and Cu-sulfide Earth materials: A connection between bond length, bond critical point properties, local energy densities, and bonded interactions, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 111, 1923-1931 [view file]
Rieder M, Crelling J C, Šustai O, Drábek M, Weiss Z, Klementová M (2007) Arsenic in iron disulfides in a brown coal from the North Bohemian Basin, Czech Republic, International Journal of Coal Geology, 71, 115-121

REFERENCES for Pyrite

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]

Hill J (1751) Of vitriolic minerals, in A History of the Materia Medica Longman, Hitch and Hawes London 140-147 [view file]

Ramsdell L S (1925) The crystal structure of some metallic sulfides, American Mineralogist, 10, 281-304 [view file]

Oftedal I (1928) Über die Kristallstrukturen der verbindungen RuS₂, OsS₂, MnTe₂ und AuSb₂. Mit einem Anhang über die Gitterkonstant von Pyrit, Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie, 135, 291-299 [view file]

Furuseth S, Selte K, Kjekshus A (1965) Redetermined crystal structures of PdAs₂, PdSb₂, PtP₂, PtAs₂, PtSb₂, α-PtBi₂, and AuSb₂, Acta Chemica Scandinavica, 19, 735-741

Rose E R (1965) Pyrite nodules of the Timagami copper-nickel deposit, The Canadian Mineralogist, 8, 317-324 [view file]

Clendenen R L and Drickamer H G (1966) Lattice parameters of nine oxides and sulfides as a function of pressure, Journal of Chemical Physics, 44, 4223-4228

Sutherland J K (1966) Abstract of paper presented at the eleventh meeting: The chemistry of some New Brunswick pyrites, The Canadian Mineralogist, 8, 674-674 [view file]

Kanehira K, Bachinski D (1967) Shorter communications: Framboidal pyrite and concentric textures in ores of the Tilt Cove Mine, Northeastern Newfoundland, The Canadian Mineralogist, 9, 124-128 [view file]

Sutherland J K (1967) The chemistry of some New Brunswick pyrites, The Canadian Mineralogist, 9, 71-84 [view file]

Nickel E H (1968) Structural stability of minerals with the pyrite, marcasite, arsenopyrite and löllingite structures, The Canadian Mineralogist, 9, 311-321 [view file]

Nickel E H (1969) The application of ligand-field concepts to an understanding of the structural stabilities and solid-solution limits of sulphides and related minerals, Chemical Geology, 5, 233-241

Fleet M E (1970) Structural aspects of the marcasite-pyrite transformation, The Canadian Mineralogist, 10, 225-231 [view file]

Wells J D, Mullens T E (1973) Gold-bearing arsenian pyrite determined by microprobe analysis, Cortez and Carlin Gold mines, Nevada, Economic Geology, 68, 187-201

Ramsden A R (1975) Compositions of coexisting pyrrhotites, pentlandites and pyrites at Spargoville, western Australia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 13, 133-137 [view file]

Wikjord A G, Rummery T E, Doern F E (1976) Crystallization of pyrite from deoxygenated aqueous sulfide solutions at elevated temperature and pressure, The Canadian Mineralogist, 14, 571-573 [view file]

Bayliss P (1977) Crystal structure refinement of a weakly anisotropic pyrite, American Mineralogist, 62, 1168-1172 [view file]

Chen T T (1978) Colloform and framboidal pyrite from the Caribou deposit New Brunswick, The Canadian Mineralogist, 16, 9-15 [view file]

Gait R I (1978) A dominant diploid on a pyrite crystal from Greece, The Canadian Mineralogist, 16, 375-377 [view file]

Pauling L (1978) Covalent chemical bonding of transition metals in pyrite, cobaltite, skutterudite, millerite and related minerals, The Canadian Mineralogist, 16, 447-452 [view file]

Manning P G, Ash L A (1979) Mössbauer spectral studies of pyrite, ferric and high–spin ferrous distributions in sulfide–rich sediments from Moira Lake, Ontario, The Canadian Mineralogist, 17, 111-115 [view file]

Zodrow E L, Wiltshire J, McCandlish K (1979) Hydrated sulfates in the Sydney coalfield of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. II. Pyrite and its alteration products, The Canadian Mineralogist, 17, 63-70 [view file]

Tossell J A, Vaughan D J, Burdett J K (1981) Pyrite, marcasite, and arsenopyrite type minerals: Crystal chemical and structural principles, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 7, 177-184

Campbell F A, Ethier V G (1984) Nickel and cobalt in pyrrhotite and pyrite from the Faro and Sullivan orebodies, The Canadian Mineralogist, 22, 503-506 [view file]

Laufer E E, Scott J D, Packwood R (1985) Inhibition of pyrite growth by amorphous carbon, The Canadian Mineralogist, 23, 57-60 [view file]

Fujii T, Yoshida A, Tanaka K, Marumo F, Noda Y (1986) High pressure compressibilities of pyrite and cattierite, Mineralogical Journal, 13, 202-211 [view file]

Gait R I, Dumka D (1986) Morphology of pyrite from the Nanisivik mine, Baffin Island, Northwest Territories, The Canadian Mineralogist, 24, 685-688 [view file]

Manning P G, Murphy T P, Mayer T, Prepas E E (1988) Effect of copper sulfate on pyrite formation in reducing sediments, The Canadian Mineralogist, 26, 965-972 [view file]

Griffin W L, Ashley P M, Ryan C G, Sie S H, Suter G F (1991) Pyrite geochemistry in the North Arm epithermal Ag-Au deposit, Queensland, Australia: a proton-microprobe study, The Canadian Mineralogist, 29, 185-198 [view file]

Larocque A C L, Hodgson C J, Cabri L J, Jackman J A (1995) Ion-microprobe analysis of pyrite, chalcopyrite and pyrrhotite from the Mobrun VMS deposit in northwestern Quebec: evidence for metamorphic remobilization of gold, The Canadian Mineralogist, 33, 373-388 [view file]

Larocque A C L, Jackman J A, Cabri L J, Hodgson C J (1995) Calibration of the ion microprobe for the determination of silver in pyrite and chalcopyrite from the Mobrun VMS deposit, Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, The Canadian Mineralogist, 33, 361-372 [view file]

Lynch G, Mengel F (1995) Metamorphism of arsenopyrite-pyrite-sphalerite-pyrrhotite lenses, western Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 33, 105-114 [view file]

Barkov A Y, Halkoaho T A A, Laajoki K V O, Alapieti T T, Peura R A (1997) Ruthenian pyrite and nickeloan malanite from the Imandra layered complex, northwestern Russia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 35, 887-897 [view file]

Barkov A Y, Laajoki K V O, Men'shikov Y P, Alapieti T T, Sivonen S J (1997) First terrestrial occurrence of titanium-rich pyrrhotite, marcasite and pyrite in a fenitized xenolith from the Khibina alkaline complex, Russia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 35, 875-885 [view file]

Sasaki K (1997) Raman study of the microbially mediated dissolution of pyrite by Thiobacillus ferrooxidans, The Canadian Mineralogist, 35, 999-1008 [view file]

Lodders K, Klingelhöfer G, Kremser D T (1998) Chloritoid inclusions in pyrite from Navajún, Spain, The Canadian Mineralogist, 36, 137-145 [view file]

Frankel R B, Bazylinski D A (2003) Biologically induced mineralization by bacteria, Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, 54, 95-114

Ondruš P, Veselovský F, Gabašová A, Hloušek J, Šrein V, Vavrín I, Skála R, Sejkora J, Drábek M (2003) Primary minerals of the Jáchymov ore district, Journal of the Czech Geological Society, 48, 19-147 [view file]

Kleppe A K, Jephcoat A P (2004) High-pressure Raman spectroscopic studies of FeS₂ pyrite, Mineralogical Magazine, 68, 433-441 [view file]

Chouinard A, Paquette J, Williams-Jones A E (2005) Crystallographic controls on trace-element incorporation in auriferous pyrite from the Pascua epithermal high-sulfidation deposit, Chile-Argentina, The Canadian Mineralogist, 43, 951-963 [view file]

Reich M, Kesler S E, Utsunomiya S, Palenik C S, Chryssoulis S L, Ewing R C (2005) Solubility of gold in arsenian pyrite, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 69, 2781-2796

Gibbs G V, Cox D F, Rosso K M, Ross N L, Downs R T, Spackman M A (2007) Theoretical electron density distribution for Fe- and Cu-sulfide Earth materials: A connection between bond length, bond critical point properties, local energy densities, and bonded interactions, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 111, 1923-1931 [view file]

Rieder M, Crelling J C, Šustai O, Drábek M, Weiss Z, Klementová M (2007) Arsenic in iron disulfides in a brown coal from the North Bohemian Basin, Czech Republic, International Journal of Coal Geology, 71, 115-121