Important Update News
The RRUFF Project has been migrated to RRUFF.net. Please update your bookmarks immediately, if you have not done so.
The data on this website is already three years out of date, and the entire website will be taken offline before the end of the year.
We are grateful to NASA for the funding of this effort.
We host articles and citations in collaboration with the Canadian , American , British , Japanese , French , Russian , and Italian mineral societies.Report a new mineral description or crystal structure reference.
Mineral contains: Sopcheite
Dunn P J, Fleischer M, Burns R G, Pabst A (1983) New mineral names. American Mineralogist 68, 471-475
Dunning G R, Laflamme J H G, Criddle A J (1984) Sopcheite: a second canadian occurrence, from the Lac-des-Ises Complex, Ontario. The Canadian Mineralogist 22, 233-237
Laufek F, Vymazalova A, Grokhovskaya T L, Plášil J, Dušek M, Orsoev D A, Kozlov V V (2017) The crystal structure of sopcheite, Ag4Pd3Te4, from the Lukkulaisvaara intrusion, Karelia, Russia. European Journal of Mineralogy 29, 603-612
Orsoev D A, Rezhenova S A, Bodanova A N (1982) Sopcheite, Ag4Pd3Te4, a new mineral from copper-nickel ores of the Monchegorsk pluton. Zapiski Vsesoyuznogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva 111, issue 1, 114-117
Vymazalová A, Laufek F, Kristavchuk A V, Chareev D A, Drábek M (2015) The system Ag-Pd-Te: phase relations and mineral assemblages. Mineralogical Magazine 79, 1813-1832
Canadian
American
British
Japanese
French
Russian
Italian