Tellurium R060136



Name: Tellurium
RRUFF ID: R060136
Ideal Chemistry: Te
Locality: Good Hope mine, Vulcan District, Gunnison County, Colorado, USA
Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 1235 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Steel gray metallic fragment
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis
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CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R060136.2
Sample Description: Microprobe fragment
Measured Chemistry: (Te0.99Sb0.01)Σ=1
Microprobe Data File: [ Download Excel File ]
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
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RRUFF ID: R060136
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW
POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R060136.1
Sample Description: Powder
Cell Refinement Output: a: 4.4571(4)Å    b: 4.4571(4)Å    c: 5.9178(6)Å
alpha: 90°    beta: 90°    gamma: 120°   Volume: 101.81(2)Å3    Crystal System: hexagonal
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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 Tellurium

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]

Delamétherie J C (1798) Sur le tellurium, nouveau métal trouvé par Klaproth, Observations sur la Physique, sur l’Histoire Naturelle et sur les Arts, 46, 158-158   [view file]

Klaproth M H (1802) Chemische Untersuchung der Siebenbürgischen Golderze, Beiträge zur Chemischen Kenntniss der Mineralkörper, 3, 1-34   [view file]

Genth F A (1868) Contributions to mineralogy - No. VII, American Journal of Science and Arts, 95, 305-321   [view file]

Genth F A (1877) On some tellurium and vanadium minerals, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 17, 113-123   [view file]

Bradley A J (1924) The crystal structures of the rhombohedral forms of selenium and tellurium, Philosophical Magazine, 48, 477-497

Cherin P, Unger P (1967) Two-dimentional refinement of the crystal structure of tellurium, Acta Crystallographica, 23, 670-671

Harris D C, Owens D R (1971) A tellurium-bearing canfieldite, from Revelstoke, B.C., The Canadian Mineralogist, 10, 895-898   [view file]

Adenis C, Langer V, Lindqvist O (1988) Reinvestigation of the structure of tellurium, Acta Crystallographica, C45, 941-942

Hattori K H, Arai S, Clarke D B (2002) Selenium, tellurium, arsenic and antimony contents of primary mantle sulfides, The Canadian Mineralogist, 40, 637-650   [view file]

Degtyareva O (2010) Crystal structure of simple metals at high pressures, High Pressure Research, 30, 343-371

Bindi L, Nestola F, Guastoni A, Zorzi F, Peruzzo L, Raber T (2012) Te-rich canfieldite, Ag8Sn(S,Te)6, from Lengenbach Quarry, Binntal, Canton Valais, Switzerland: Occurrence, description and crystal structure, The Canadian Mineralogist, 50, 111-118   [view file]