Kuksite - RRUFF Database: Raman, X-ray, Infrared, and Chemistry

Kuksite R110039

Name: Kuksite
RRUFF ID: R110039
Ideal Chemistry: Pb₃Zn₃TeO₆(PO₄)₂
Locality: Blue Bell claims, Baker, San Bernardino County, California, USA
Source: Brent Thorne [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Pale-green short-primatic hexagonal crystals, associated with colorless elongated tabular hemimorphite and yellow to brown-yellow andradite.
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by single crystal X-ray diffraction.

Mineral Group: [ Dugganite (2) ]

RAMAN SPECTRUM

RRUFF ID:

Sample Description:

Unoriented Raman on the primary sample

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BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS

RRUFF ID:

R110039

Wavelength:

Sample Description:

Unoriented Raman on the primary sample

Instrument settings:

Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW

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POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R110039.9

Sample Description:

Single crystal, powder profile is calculated

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 8.392(7)Å b: 8.392(7)Å c: 5.186(5)Å
alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 120° Volume: 316.27(7)Å³ 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.

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REFERENCES for Kuksite
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]
Kim A A, Zayakina N V, Makhotko V F (1990) Kuksite Pb₃Zn₃TeO₆(PO₄)₂ and cheremnykhite Pb₃Zn₃TeO₆(VO₄)₂—new tellurates from the Kuranakh gold deposit (Central Aldan, southern Yakutia), Zapiski Vsesoyuznogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva, 119, issue 5 50-57 [view file]
Jambor J L, Vanko D A (1992) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 77, 446-452 [view file]
Mills S J, Kampf A R, Kolitsch U, Housley R M, Raudsepp M (2010) The crystal chemistry and crystal structure of kuksite, Pb₃Zn₃Te⁶⁺P₂O₁₄, and a note on the crystal structure of yafsoanite, (Ca,Pb)₃Zn(TeO₆)₂, American Mineralogist, 95, 933-938 [view file]

REFERENCES for Kuksite

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]

Kim A A, Zayakina N V, Makhotko V F (1990) Kuksite Pb₃Zn₃TeO₆(PO₄)₂ and cheremnykhite Pb₃Zn₃TeO₆(VO₄)₂—new tellurates from the Kuranakh gold deposit (Central Aldan, southern Yakutia), Zapiski Vsesoyuznogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva, 119, issue 5 50-57 [view file]

Jambor J L, Vanko D A (1992) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 77, 446-452 [view file]

Mills S J, Kampf A R, Kolitsch U, Housley R M, Raudsepp M (2010) The crystal chemistry and crystal structure of kuksite, Pb₃Zn₃Te⁶⁺P₂O₁₄, and a note on the crystal structure of yafsoanite, (Ca,Pb)₃Zn(TeO₆)₂, American Mineralogist, 95, 933-938 [view file]