Duftite R050507
Name: Duftite
RRUFF ID: R050507
Ideal Chemistry: PbCuAsO4(OH)
Locality: Mt. Bonney, Northern Territory, Australia
Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 11536 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Green aggregate of acicular crystals forming round wheel-like shapes, intimately mixed with mimetite
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis
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CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R050507.2
Sample Description: Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry: dark phase: Pb1.00Cu1.00As1.00O4(OH) ; light phase is mimetite: (Pb4.95Cu0.05)Σ=5(As1.00O4)3Cl1.00; OH estimated by charge balance
Microprobe Data File: [ Download Excel File ]
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150 mW
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INFRARED SPECTRUM (Attenuated Total Reflectance) 
RRUFF ID: R050507.1
Instrument settings: SensIR Durascope on a Nicolet Magna 860 FTIR
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POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R050507.1
Sample Description: powder
Cell Refinement Output: a: 7.7678(3)Å    b: 9.2166(3)Å    c: 6.0000(2)Å
alpha: 90.°    beta: 90.°    gamma: 90.°   Volume: 429.57(1)    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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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Duftite

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]

Pufahl O (1920) Mitteilungen über mineralien und erze von Südwestafrika, besonders solche von Tsumeb, Centralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie, 1920, 289-296   [view file]

Wherry E T, Foshag W F (1921) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 6, 140-141   [view file]

Guillemin C (1956) Contribution a la minéralogie des arséniates, phosphates et vanadates de cuivre. I. Arséniates de cuivre, Bulletin de la Société Française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie, 79, 7-95

Fleischer M (1957) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 42, 117-124   [view file]

Jambor J L, Owens D R, Dutrizac J E (1980) Solid solution in the adelite group of arsenates, The Canadian Mineralogist, 18, 191-195   [view file]

Effenberger H, Pertlik F (1988) Comparison of the homeomorphic crystal structures of Pb(Fe,Mn)(VO4)(OH) = cechite and PbCu(AsO4)(OH) = duftite, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 185, 610-610   [view file]

Kharisun, Taylor M R, Bevan D J M, Pring A (1998) The crystal chemistry of duftite, PbCuAsO4(OH) and the beta-duftite problem, Mineralogical Magazine, 62, 121-130   [view file]