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Name: Parapierrotite RRUFF ID: R060397 Ideal Chemistry: TlSb5S8 Locality: Lookout Pass Area, southeast Tooele County, Utah, USA Source: Michael Scott S100098 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Black semimetallic fragment Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. |
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POWDER DIFFRACTION | |||||||
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RRUFF ID: | R060397.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 8.116(6)Å b: 19.48(1)Å c: 9.095(6)Å alpha: 90° beta: 91.95(2)° gamma: 90° Volume: 1437(3)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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REFERENCES for Parapierrotite | |
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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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John Z, Picot P, Hak J, Kvaček M (1975) La parapierrotite, un nouveau minéral thallifère d'Allchar (Yougoslavie), Tschermaks Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen, 22, 200-210 [view file] |
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Fleischer M, Cabri L J (1976) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 61, 502-504 [view file] |
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Engel P (1980) Die kristallstruktur von synthetischem parapierrotit, TlSb5S8, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 151, 203-216 [view file] |
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Pláil J, Kasatkin A V, koda R, Stepanov S Y (2018) Parapierrotite from the Vorontsovskoe gold deposit, Northern Urals, Russia: Crystal structure and chemical composition (abstract only, in English), Zapiski Rossiiskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchetstva, 147, 68 [view file] |
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Pláil J, Kasatkin A V, koda R, Stepanov S Y (2018) Parapierrotite from the Vorontsovskoe gold deposit, Northern Urals, Russia: Crystal structure and chemical composition (abstract only, in Russian), Zapiski Rossiiskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchetstva, 147, 68-68 [view file] |
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Biagioni C, Moëlo Y, Perchiazzi N, Demitri N, Zaccarini F (2019) Parapierrotite from the Monte Arsiccio mine (Apuan Alps, Tuscany, Italy): occurrence and new data on its crystal-chemistry, European Journal of Mineralogy, 31, 1055-1065 [view file] |
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