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Cuproiridsite R070035

Name: Cuproiridsite
RRUFF ID: R070035
Ideal Chemistry: Cu(Ir³⁺Ir⁴⁺)S₄
Locality: Miass River, Urals, Russia
Source: Michael Scott S105084 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Iron-black metallic polished fragment embedded in epoxy
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by chemical analysis

Mineral Group: [ Spinel (66) ]

CHEMISTRY

RRUFF ID:	R070035.2
Sample Description:	Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry:	gray inclusion in the dark phase: (Cu_0.67Ni_0.17Fe_0.16)_Σ=1(Ir_1.94Pt_0.04Ru_0.02)_Σ=2S_4.00 trace amounts of Os.
Microprobe Data File:	[ Download Excel File ]

RAMAN SPECTRUM

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Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

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RRUFF ID:

R070035

Wavelength:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

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REFERENCES for Cuproiridsite
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]
Frenzel A (1893) Ueber den Kylindrit, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Palaontologie, 2, 125-128 [view file]
Rudashevsky N S, Men'shikov Y P, Mochalov A G, Trubkin N V, Shumskaya N I, and Zhdanov V V (1985) Cuprorhodsite CuRh₂S₄ and cuproiridsite CuIr₂S₄ - new natural thiospinels of platinum-group elements, Zapiski Vsesoyuznogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva, 114, issue 2 187-195 [view file]
Hawthorne F C, Fleischer M, Grew E S, Grice J D, Jambor J L, Puziewicz J, Roberts A C, Vanko D A, Zilczer J A (1986) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 71, 1277-1282 [view file]
Garuti G, Gazzotti M, Torres-Ruiz J (1995) Iridium, rhodium, and platinum sulfides in chromitites from the ultramafic massifs of Finero, Italy, and Ojen, Spain, The Canadian Mineralogist, 33, 509-520 [view file]
Bowles J F W, Suárez S, Prichard H M, Fisher P C (2018) The mineralogy, geochemistry and genesis of the alluvial platinum-group minerals of the Freetown Layered Complex, Sierra Leone, Mineralogical Magazine, 82, S223-S246
Bosi F, Biagioni C, Pasero M (2019) Nomenclature and classification of the spinel supergroup, European Journal of Mineralogy, 31, 183-192 [view file]

REFERENCES for Cuproiridsite

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]

Frenzel A (1893) Ueber den Kylindrit, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Palaontologie, 2, 125-128 [view file]

Rudashevsky N S, Men'shikov Y P, Mochalov A G, Trubkin N V, Shumskaya N I, and Zhdanov V V (1985) Cuprorhodsite CuRh₂S₄ and cuproiridsite CuIr₂S₄ - new natural thiospinels of platinum-group elements, Zapiski Vsesoyuznogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva, 114, issue 2 187-195 [view file]

Hawthorne F C, Fleischer M, Grew E S, Grice J D, Jambor J L, Puziewicz J, Roberts A C, Vanko D A, Zilczer J A (1986) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 71, 1277-1282 [view file]

Garuti G, Gazzotti M, Torres-Ruiz J (1995) Iridium, rhodium, and platinum sulfides in chromitites from the ultramafic massifs of Finero, Italy, and Ojen, Spain, The Canadian Mineralogist, 33, 509-520 [view file]

Bowles J F W, Suárez S, Prichard H M, Fisher P C (2018) The mineralogy, geochemistry and genesis of the alluvial platinum-group minerals of the Freetown Layered Complex, Sierra Leone, Mineralogical Magazine, 82, S223-S246

Bosi F, Biagioni C, Pasero M (2019) Nomenclature and classification of the spinel supergroup, European Journal of Mineralogy, 31, 183-192 [view file]