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Name: Stolzite RRUFF ID: R050568 Ideal Chemistry: Pb(WO4) Locality: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 13642 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Yellowish brown tetragonal dipyramidal crystals Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis. |
Mineral Group: [ Scheelite (17) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Stolzite samples (4) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R050568.9 | |||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | |||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 5.459(2)Å b: 5.459(2)Å c: 12.051(4)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 359.09(9)Å3 Crystal System: tetragonal |
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REFERENCES for Stolzite | |
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American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record] |
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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] |
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Haidinger W (1845) Zweite Klasse: Geogenide. II. Ordnung. Baryte. VII. Bleibaryt. Stolzit., in Handbuch der Bestimmenden Mineralogie Bei Braumüller and Seidel Wien 499-506 [view file] |
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Hlawatsch C (1897) Ueber den Stolzit und ein neues Mineral »Raspit« von Brokenhill, Annalen des K.K. Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums, 12, 33-41 [view file] |
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Hlawatsch C (1898) Ueber Stolzit und Raspit von Brokenhill, Zeitschrift für Krystallographie und Mineralogie, 29, 130-139 [view file] |
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Welin E (1968) Notes on the mineralogy of Sweden 6. X-ray powder data for minerals from Långban and the related mineral deposits of Central Sweden, Arkiv för Mineralogi och Geologi, 4, 499-541 |
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Plakhov G F, Pobedimskaya E A, Simonov M A, Belov N V (1970) The crystal structure of PbWO4, Soviet Physics - Crystallography, 15, 928-929 [view file] |
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Hazen R M, Finger L W (1985) Highpressure crystal chemistry of scheelite-type tungstates and molybdates, Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, 46, 253-263 [link] |
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Xu K, Xue J, Ding Y, Lu G (1995) Discovery of stolzite in China and refinement of its crystal structure, Acta Geologica Sinica, 8, 111-116 [view file] |
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Moreau J M, Galez P, Peigneux J P, Korzhik M V (1996) Structural characterization of PbWO4 and related new phase Pb7W8O(32-x), Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 238, 46-48 |
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Chipaux R, André G, Cousson A (2001) Crystal structure of lead tungstate at 1.4 and 300 K, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 325, 91-94 |
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Crane M, Frost R L, Williams P A, Kloprogge J T (2002) Raman spectroscopy of the molybdate minerals chillagite (tungsteinian wulfenite-I4), stolzite, scheelite, wolframite and wulfenite, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 33, 62-66 |
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Bastians S, Crump G, Griffith W P, Withnall R (2004) Raspite and studtite: Raman spectra of two unique minerals, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 35, 726-731 |
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Kloprogge J T, Weier M L Duong L V, Frost R L (2004) Microwave-assisted synthesis and characterisation of divalent metal tungstate nanocrystalline minerals: ferberite, hübnerite, sanmartinite, scheelite and stolzite, Materials Chemistry and Physics, 88, 438-443 |
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Secco L, Nestola F, Dal Negro A (2008) The wulfenite - stolzite series: centric or acentric structures?, Mineralogical Magazine, 72, 987-990 [view file] |
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