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Cerussite R050011

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Name: Cerussite
RRUFF ID: R050011
Ideal Chemistry: Pb(CO3)
Locality: Daoping Lead and Zinc mine, Gongcheng, Guangxi, China
Source: Eugene Schlepp
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Colorless hexagonal bipyramidal crystals
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis
Mineral Group: [ Aragonite (18) ]
Quick search: [ All Cerussite samples (6) ]
CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R050011.2
Sample Description: Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry: Pb1.00CO3 ; CO2 not measured but estimated by difference and stoichiometry
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RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Sample is oriented, mounted onto a pin and polished
Pin ID: L00082
Orientation: Laser parallel to  -a*  (-1 0 0).     Fiducial mark perpendicular to laser is parallel to  -b   [0 -1 0].
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RRUFF ID: R050011
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW
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INFRARED SPECTRUM (Attenuated Total Reflectance) 
RRUFF ID: R050011.1
Instrument settings: SensIR Durascope on a Nicolet Magna 860 FTIR
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POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R050011.1
Sample Description: Powder
Cell Refinement Output: a: 5.1836(2)Å    b: 8.4978(4)Å    c: 6.1453(4)Å
alpha: 90.°    beta: 90.°    gamma: 90.°   Volume: 270.70(2)Å3    Crystal System: orthorhombic
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Calculated diffraction file.

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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Cerussite

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]

Crabb G (1823) Cerussa, in Universal Technological Dictionary, Volume 1 Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy London 305-305   [view file]

Beudant F S (1832) Céruse, in Traité Élémentaire de Minéralogie, 2nd Edition Paris 363-365   [view file]

Haidinger W (1845) Cerussit, in Handbuch der Bestimmenden Mineralogie Bei Braumüller and Seidel Wien 503-503   [view file]

Zachariasen W H (1928) Untersuchungen über die Kristallstruktur von Sesquioxyden und Verbindungen ABO3, Skrifter Utgitt av Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi i Oslo, 1, 1-165   [view file]

Sahl K (1974) Verfeinerung de kristallstruktur von cerussite, PbCO3, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 139, 215-222   [view file]

Chevrier G, Giester G, Heger G, Jarosch D, Wildner M, Zemann J (1992) Neutron single-crystal refinement of cerussite, PbCO3, and comparison with other aragonite-type carbonates, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 199, 67-74   [view file]

Frost R L, Kloprogge J T, Williams P A (2003) Raman spectroscopy of lead sulphate-carbonate minerals - implications for hydrogen bonding, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 2003, 529-542

Antao S M, Hassan I (2009) The orthorhombic structure of CaCO3, SrCO3, PbCO3 and BaCO3: Linear structural trends, The Canadian Mineralogist, 47, 1245-1255   [view file]

Ye Y, Smyth J R, Boni P (2012) Crystal structure and thermal expansion of aragonite-group carbonates by single-crystal X-ray diffraction, American Mineralogist, 97, 707-712   [view file]

Kei M F, Markl G (2015) Weathering of galena: mineralogical processes, hydrogeochemical fluid path modeling, and estimation of the growth rate of pyromorphite, American Mineralogist, 100, 1584-1594

Markl G, Keim M F, Bayerl R (2019) Unusual mineral diversity in hydrothermal vein-type deposit: The Clara mine, SW Germany, as a type example, The Canadian Mineralogist, 57, 427-456