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Name: Stephanite RRUFF ID: R050309 Ideal Chemistry: Ag5SbS4 Locality: Sonora, Mexico Source: Eugene Schlepp Owner: RRUFF Description: Black fragment in quartz, associated with pyrargyrite. Electron microscope image shows two fine-scale phases. Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis. |
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RRUFF ID: | R050309.1 | |||||||
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a: 7.817(1)Å b: 12.448(4)Å c: 8.536(2)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 830.7(0)Å3 Crystal System: orthorhombic |
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REFERENCES for Stephanite | |
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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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Haidinger W (1845) Zweite Klasse: Geogenide. XIV. Ordnung. Glanze. VIII. Melanglanz. Stephanit., in Handbuch der Bestimmenden Mineralogie Bei Braumüller and Seidel Wien 563-570 [view file] |
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Murdoch J (1942) Crystallographic notes: cristobalite, stephanite, natrolite, American Mineralogist, 27, 500-506 [view file] |
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Petrunina A A, Maksimov B A, Ilyukhin V V, Belov N V (1970) The crystal structure of stephanite Ag5SbS4, Soviet Physics - Doklady, 14, 833-835 |
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Ribár B, Nowacki W (1970) Die kristallstruktur von stephanit, [SbS3|S|Ag5III], Acta Crystallographica, B26, 201-207 |
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Ondru P, Veselovský F, Gabaová A, Hlouek J, rein V, Vavrín I, Skála R, Sejkora J, Drábek M (2003) Primary minerals of the Jáchymov ore district, Journal of the Czech Geological Society, 48, 19-147 [view file] |
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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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Leitl M, Pfitzner A, Bindi L (2009) Preferred ion pathways and activation energies for Ag in the crystal structure of stephanite, Ag5SbS4, Mineralogical Magazine, 73, 17-26 [view file] |
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