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Mineral contains: Realgar
Đorđević T, Kolitsch U, Serafimovski T, Tasev G, Tepe N, Stöger-Pollach M, Hofmann T, Boev B, (2019) Mineralogy and weathering of realgar-rich tailings at a former As-Sb-Cr mine at Lojane, North Macedonia. The Canadian Mineralogist 57, 403-423
Ballirano P (2012) Thermal behavior of realgar As4S4, and of arsenolite As2O3 and non-stoichiometric As8S8+x crystals produced from As4S4 melt recrystallization. American Mineralogist 97, 1320-1329
Ballirano P, Maras A (2006) In-situ X-ray transmission powder diffraction study of the kinetics of the light induced alteration of realgar (α-As4S4). European Journal of Mineralogy 18, 589-599
Bonazzi P, Bindi L (2008) A crystallographic review of arsenic sulfides: Effects of chemical variations and changes induced by exposure to light. Zeitschrift für Kristallographie 223, 132-147
Bonazzi P, Bindi L, Pratesi G, Menchetti S (2006) Light-induced changes in molecular arsenic sulfides: State of the art and new evidence by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. American Mineralogist 91, 1323-1330
Clark A H (1970) Alpha-arsenic sulfide, from Mina Alacrán, Pampa Larga, Chile. American Mineralogist 55, 1338-1344
Douglass D L, Shing C, Wang G (1992) The light-induced alteration of realgar to pararealgar. American Mineralogist 77, 1266-1274
Frost R L, Martens W N, Kloprogge J T (2002) Raman spectroscopic study of cinnabar (HgS), realgar (As4S4), and orpiment (As2S3) at 298 and 77K. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte 2002, 469-480
Hejny C, Sagl R, Többens D M, Miletich R, Wildner M, Nasdala L, Ullrich A, Balic-Zunic T (2012) Crystal-structure properties and the molecular nature of hydrostatically compressed realgar. Physics and Chemistry of Minerals 39, 399-412
Ito T, Morimoto N, Sadanaga R (1952) The crystal structure of realgar. Acta Crystallographica 5, 775-782
Kyono A (2009) Molecular conformation and anion configuration variations for As4S4 and As4Se4 in an anion-substituted solid solution. American Mineralogist 94, 451-460
Kyono A, Kimata M, Hatta T (2005) Light-induced degradation dynamics in realgar: in situ structural investigation using single-crystal X-ray diffraction study and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. American Mineralogist 90, 1563-1570
Lepore G O, Boffa Ballaran T, Nestola F, Bindi L, Pasqual D, Bonazzi P (2012) Compressibility of β-As4S4: an in situ high-pressure single-crystal X-ray study. Mineralogical Magazine 76, 963-973
Mullen D J E, Nowacki W (1972) Refinement of the crystal structures of realgar, AsS and orpiment, As2S3. Zeitschrift für Kristallographie 136, 48-65
Naumov P, Makreski P, Jovanovski G (2007) Direct atomic scale observations of linkage isomerization of As4S4 clusters during the photoinduced transition of realgar to pararealgar. Inorganic Chemistry 46, 10624-10631
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
Pratesi G, Zoppi M (2015) An insight into the inverse transformation of realgar altered by light. American Mineralogist 100, 1222-1229
Tuktabiev M A, Popova S V, Brazhkin V V, Lyapin A G, Katayama K (2009) Compressibility and polymorphism of α-As4S4 realgar under high pressure. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 21, 385401
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Zoppi M, Pratesi G (2012) The dual behavior of the β-As4S4 altered by light. American Mineralogist 97, 890-896
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