Sperrylite R070214


 Name: Sperrylite
RRUFF ID: R070214
Ideal Chemistry: PtAs2
Locality: Vermilion Mine, Denison Township, Sudbury District, Ontario, Canada
Source: Michael Scott S102676 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Loose aggregate of bright silver cubes, some with octahedral modifications
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by single crystal X-ray diffraction.
Mineral Group: [ Pyrite (16) ]
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
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RRUFF ID: R070214
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW
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POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R070214.9
Sample Description: Single crystal, powder profile is calculated
Cell Refinement Output: a: 5.977(1)Å    b: 5.977(1)Å    c: 5.977(1)Å
alpha: 90°    beta: 90°    gamma: 90°   Volume: 213.51(2)Å3    Crystal System: cubic
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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Sperrylite

American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record]

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Ramsdell L S (1925) The crystal structure of some metallic sulfides, American Mineralogist, 10, 281-304   [view file]

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Stassen W N, Heyding R D (1968) Crystal structures of RuSe2, OsSe2, PtAs2, and α-NiAs2, Canadian Journal of Chemistry, 46, 2159-2163

Cabri L J, Laflamme J H G, Stewart J M (1977) Platinum-group minerals from Onverwacht. II. Platarsite, a new sulfarsenide of platinum, The Canadian Mineralogist, 15, 385-388   [view file]

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Szymanski J T (1980) The crystal structure of platarsite, Pt(As,S)2, and a comparison with sperrylite, PtAs2: corrigendum, The Canadian Mineralogist, 18, 563-563   [view file]

Vuorelainen Y, Törnroos R (1986) Man-made Pt-PtAs2 spherules after sperrylite from alluvial deposits in Finnish Lapland, The Canadian Mineralogist, 24, 523-528   [view file]

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Stone W E, Fleet M E, Crocket J H, Kingston D M (1992) Platinum-group minerals in pyroxenite from the Boston Creek flow basaltic komatiite, Abitibi greenstone belt, Ontario, The Canadian Mineralogist, 30, 109-119   [view file]

McCreesh M J G, Yudovskaya M A, Kinnaird J A, Reinke C (2018) Platinum-group minerals of the F and T zones, Waterberg Project, far northern Bushveld Complex: implication for the formation of the PGE mineralization, Mineralogical Magazine, 82, 539–575

Bosi F, Hatert F, Pasero M, Mills S J (2023) IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) – Newsletter 72, European Journal of Mineralogy, 35, 285-293   [view file]

Mcdonald A M, Cabri L J (2023) Discreditation of platarsite: A S-rich variety of sperrylite, The Canadian Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology, 61, 1039-1044