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Name: Stibnite RRUFF ID: R120137 Ideal Chemistry: Sb2S3 Locality: Green Prospect, Churchill County, Nevada, USA Source: Benjamin N. Schumer [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Lead-gray prismatic crystals on matrix of senarmontite, sulphur and selenium Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. |
Mineral Group: [ Stibnite (10) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Stibnite samples (3) ] |
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POWDER DIFFRACTION | |||||||
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RRUFF ID: | R120137.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 11.355(3)Å b: 3.8463(8)Å c: 11.260(3)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 491.8(2)Å3 Crystal System: orthorhombic |
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REFERENCES for Stibnite | |
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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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Beudant F S (1832) Stibine, antinoine sulfuré, in Traité Élémentaire de Minéralogie, 2nd Edition Paris 421-424 [view file] |
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Hofmann W (1933) Die struktur der minerale der animonitgruppe, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 86, 225-245 [view file] |
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ćavnicar S (1960) The crystal structure of stibnite. A redetermination of atomic positions, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 114, 85-97 [view file] |
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Bayliss P, Nowacki W (1972) Refinement of the crystal structure of stibnite, Sb2S3, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 135, 308-315 [view file] |
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McKee D O, McMullan J T (1975) Comment on the structure of antimony trisulfide, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 142, 447-449 [view file] |
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Olivier-Fourcade J, Maurin M, Philippot E (1983) Étude cristallochimique de système Li2S-Sb2S3, Revue de Chimie Minérale, 20, 196-213 |
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Bonazzi P, Menchetti S, Sabelli C (1987) Structure refinement of kermesite: symmetry, twinning, and comparison with stibnite, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1987, 557-567 |
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Arun P, Vedeshwar A G (1996) On the structure of stibnite (Sb2S3), Journal of Materials Science, 31, 6507-6510 |
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Lukaszewicz K, Pietraszko A, Stepien-Damm J, Grigas J, Kajokas A (1997) Crystal structure of stibnite Sb2S3 in phase II at 320 K, Polish Journal of Chemistry, 71, 390-395 |
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Berlepsch P, Makovicky E, Balić-unić T (2001) Crystal chemistry of meneghinite homologues and related sulfosalts, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 2001, 115-135 |
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Kyono A, Kimata M (2004) Structural variations induced by difference of the inert pair effect in the stibnite-bismuthinite solid solution series (Sb,Bi)2S3, American Mineralogist, 89, 932-940 [view file] |
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Liu J, Liu J, Li J, Xie H, Wang J, Deng J, Feng C, Qi F, Zhang N (2008) Experimental synthesis of the stibnite-antimonselite solid solution series, International Geology Review, 50, 163-176 |
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Kharbish S, Libowitzky E, Beran A (2009) Raman spectra of isolated and interconnected pyramidal XS3 groups (X = Sb, Bi) in stibnite, bismuthinite, kermesite, stephanite and bournonite, European Journal of Mineralogy, 21, 325-333 |
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Garcia-Guinea J, Gervilla F, Garrido F, Correcher V, Marco J F, Tormo L (2023) A re-investigation on the historical cervantite-type antimony ochres, Estudios Geológicos, 79, e150 [view file] |
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