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Name: Cattierite RRUFF ID: R061039 Ideal Chemistry: CoS2 Locality: Shinkolobwe, Belgian Congo Source: Michael Scott S101473 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Pinkish silver metallic Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by single crystal X-ray diffraction. |
Mineral Group: [ Pyrite (16) ] |
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BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS | ||||||||||||
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POWDER DIFFRACTION | |||||||
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RRUFF ID: | R061039.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 5.518(4)Å b: 5.518(4)Å c: 5.518(4)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 168.02(6)Å3 Crystal System: cubic |
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REFERENCES for Cattierite | |
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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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Kerr P F (1945) Cattierite and vaesite: New Co-Ni minerals from the Belgian Congo, American Mineralogist, 30, 483-497 [view file] |
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Nickel E H (1969) The application of ligand-field concepts to an understanding of the structural stabilities and solid-solution limits of sulphides and related minerals, Chemical Geology, 5, 233-241 |
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Pratt J L, Bayliss P (1979) Crystal-structure refinement of cattierite, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 150, 163-167 [view file] |
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Fujii T, Yoshida A, Tanaka K, Marumo F, Noda Y (1986) High pressure compressibilities of pyrite and cattierite, Mineralogical Journal, 13, 202-211 [view file] |
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Nowack E, Schwarzenbach D, Gonschorek W, Hahn T (1989) Deformationsdichten in CoS2 und NiS2 mit pyritstruktur, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 186, 213-216 [view file] |
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Nowack E, Schwarzenbach D, Hahn T (1991) Charge densities in CoS2 and NiS2 (pyrite structure), Acta Crystallographica, B47, 650-659 |
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Birkholz M (2014) Modeling the shape of ions in pyrite-type crystals, Crystals, 4, 390-403 [link] |
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Liu S, Li Y, Liu J, Shi Y (2015) First-principles study of sulfur isotope fractionation in pyrite-type disulfides, American Mineralogist, 100, 203-208 |
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Hazen R M, Hystad G, Golden J J, Hummer D R, Liu C, Downs R T, Morrison S M, Ralph J, Grew E S (2017) Cobalt mineral ecology, American Mineralogist, 102, 108-116 [view file] |
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