Stottite R120089
Name: Stottite
RRUFF ID: R120089
Ideal Chemistry: Fe2+Ge(OH)6
Locality: Tsumeb, Namibia
Source: William W Pinch [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Yellow to red gemmy crystals and fragments associated with chalcocite R120090, siderite and tennantite
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by single crystal X-ray diffraction.
Mineral Group: [ Perovskite (44) ]
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
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RRUFF ID: R120089
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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: R120089.9
Sample Description: Single crystal, powder profile is calculated
Cell Refinement Output: a: 7.551(2)Å    b: 7.551(2)Å    c: 7.465(3)Å
alpha: 90°    beta: 90°    gamma: 90°   Volume: 425.67(7)Å3    Crystal System: tetragonal
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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Stottite

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]

Fleischer M (1958) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 43, 1006-1008   [view file]

Strunz H, Söhnge G, Geier B H (1958) Stottit, ein neues Germanium-Mineral, und seine Paragenese in Tsumeb, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1958, 85-96

Strunz H (1959) Tsumeb, seine Erze und Sekundärmineralien, insbesondere der neu aufgeschlossenen zweiten Oxydationszone, Fortschritte der Mineralogie, 37, 87-90

Zemann J (1959) Der strukturtyp von stottit, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1959, 67-69

Strunz V H, Giglio M (1961) Die Kristellstruktur von Stottit Fe[Ge(OH)6], Acta Crystallographica, 14, 205-208

Bernstein L R, Waychunas G A, (1987) Germanium crystal chemistry in hematite and goethite from the Apex Mine, Utah, and some new data on germanium in aqueous solution in the stottite, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 51, 623-630

Ross C R, Bernstein L R, Waychunas G A (1988) Crystal-structure refinement of stottite, FeGe(OH)6, American Mineralogist, 73, 657-661   [view file]

Ross N L, Chaplin T D, Welch M D (2002) Compressibility of stottite, FeGe(OH)6: An octahedral framework with protonated O atoms, American Mineralogist, 87, 1410-1414   [view file]

Kleppe A K, Welch M D, Crichton W A, Jephcoat A P (2012) Phase transitions in hydroxide perovskites: a Raman spectroscopic study of stottite, FeGe(OH)6, to 21 GPa, Mineralogical Magazine, 76, 949-962   [view file]

Mitchell R H, Welch M D, Chakhmouradian A R (2017) Nomenclature of the perovskite supergroup: A hierarchical system of classification based on crystal structure and composition, Mineralogical Magazine, 81, 411-461   [view file]