Baumhauerite R050429
Name: Baumhauerite
RRUFF ID: R050429
Ideal Chemistry: Pb12As16S36
Locality: Binntal, Valais, Switzerland
Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 2862 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Lead gray metallic with iridescent tarnish and conchoidal fracture
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by single crystal X-ray diffraction.
Mineral Group: [ Sartorite (5) ]
CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R050429.2
Sample Description: Microprobe Fragment
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
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RRUFF ID: R050429
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 16% of 150mW
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INFRARED SPECTRUM (Attenuated Total Reflectance) 
RRUFF ID: R050429.1
Instrument settings: SensIR Durascope on a Nicolet Magna 860 FTIR
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POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R050429.1
Sample Description: Powder, cell parameters are from single crystal
Cell Refinement Output: a: 22.795(8)Å    b: 8.352(3)Å    c: 7.890(3)Å
alpha: 90.07(1)°    beta: 97.35(1)°    gamma: 89.89(1)°   Volume: 1490(2)Å3    Crystal System: triclinic
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REFERENCES for Baumhauerite

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]

Solly R H (1902) Sulpharsenites of lead from the Binnenthal. Part III. Baumhauerite, a new mineral; and dufrenoysite, Mineralogical Magazine, 13, 151-171   [view file]

Rösch H, Hellner E (1959) Hydrothermale Untersuchungen am System PbS - As2S3, Naturwissenschaften, 46, 72-72

Le Bihan M T (1961) Contribution à l'étude structurale des sulfures d'arsenic et de plomb. Structure de la baumhauerite, Acta Crystallographica, 14, 1210-1211

Engel P, Nowacki W (1969) Die kristallstruktur von baumhauerit, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 129, 178-202   [view file]

Pring A (1990) Disordered intergrowths in lead-arsenic sulfide minerals and the paragenesis of the sartorite-group minerals, American Mineralogist, 75, 289-294   [view file]

Pring A, Graeser S (1994) Polytipism in baumhauerite, American Mineralogist, 79, 302-307

Pring A (2001) The crystal chemistry of the sartorite group minerals from Lengenbach, Binntal, Switzerland - a HRTEM study, Schweizerische Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen, 81, 69-87

Roth P (2007) Baumhauerite, in Minerals first discovered in Switzerland and minerals named after Swiss individuals Kristallografik Verlag Achberg Germany 38-39

Topa D, Makovicky E (2016) Argentobaumhauerite: name, chemistry, crystal structure, comparison with baumhauerite, and position in the Lengenbach mineralization sequence, Mineralogical Magazine, 80, 819-840   [view file]

Topa D, Kolitsch U, Makovicky E, Stanley C (2017) Écrinsite, AgTl3Pb4As11Sb9S36, a new thallium-rich homeotype of baumhauerite from the Jas Roux sulphosalt deposit, Parc national des Écrins, Hautes-Alps, France, European Journal of Mineralogy, 29, 689-700   [view file]