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Name: Krut'aite RRUFF ID: R060381 Ideal Chemistry: CuSe2 Locality: El Dragon mine, Potosi, Bolivia Source: Michael Scott S100093 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Grey metallic octahedra Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis. |
Mineral Group: [ Pyrite (16) ] |
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POWDER DIFFRACTION | |||||||
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RRUFF ID: | R060381.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 6.043(2)Å b: 6.043(2)Å c: 6.043(2)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 220.66(5)Å3 Crystal System: cubic |
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REFERENCES for Krut'aite | |
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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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Johan Z, Picot P, Pierrot R, Kvacek M (1972) La krutaïte, CuSe2, un nouveau minéral du groupe de la pyrite, Bulletin de la Société Française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie, 95, 475-481 [view file] |
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Fleischer M (1974) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 59, 208-212 [view file] |
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Kjekshus A, Rakke T, Andresen A (1974) Compounds of the marcasite type crystal structure. IX. Structural data for FeAs2, FeSe2, NiAs2, NiSb2, and CuSe2, Acta Chemica Scandinavica, A28, 996-1000 |
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Krill G, Panissod P, Lapierre M F, Gautier F, Robert C, Eddine M N (1976) Magnetic properties and phase transitions of the metallic CuX2 dichalcogenides (X = S, Se, Te) with pyrite structure, Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics, 9, 1521-1533 |
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Milman, V (2002) Klockmannite, CuSe: structure, properties and phase stability from ab initio modeling, Acta Crystallographica, B58, 437-447 |
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Burke E A J (2008) Tidying up mineral names: an IMA-CNMNC scheme for suffixes, hyphens and diacritical marks, The Mineralogical Record, 39, 131-135 [view file] |
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