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Arsenopyrite R061082

Name: Arsenopyrite
RRUFF ID: R061082
Ideal Chemistry: FeAsS
Locality: Little Gem mine, Goldbridge, British Columbia, Canada
Source: Lloyd Twaites LT 1516 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Silver gray metallic fragments
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis

Mineral Group: [ Arsenopyrite (6) ]

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CHEMISTRY

RRUFF ID:	R061082.2
Sample Description:	Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry:	Fe_1.00As_1.00S_1.00
Microprobe Data File:	[ Download Excel File ]

RAMAN SPECTRUM

RRUFF ID:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

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BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS

RRUFF ID:

R061082

Wavelength:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

Instrument settings:

Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW

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POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R061082.1

Sample Description:

Powder

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 5.7513(8)Å b: 5.6890(4)Å c: 5.7850(8)Å
alpha: 90° beta: 112.37(1)° gamma: 90° Volume: 175.03(3)Å³ Crystal System: monoclinic

File Type Information

Calculated diffraction file.

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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Arsenopyrite
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]
Glocker E F (1847) Ordo VI. Pyritae. Pyrite. III. Pyritae arsenopyritoidei. 10. Arsenopyrites., in Generum et Specierum Mineralium, Secundum Ordines Naturales Digestorum Synopsis Apud Eduardum Anton 34-43 [view file]
Buerger M J (1936) The symmetry and crystal structure of the minerals of the arsenopyrite group, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 95, 83-113 [view file]
Hutton C O (1950) Studies of heavy detrital minerals, Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 61, 635-710 [view file]
International Mineralogical Association (1962) International Mineralogical Association: Commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Magazine, 33, 260-263 [view file]
Nickel E H (1968) Structural stability of minerals with the pyrite, marcasite, arsenopyrite and löllingite structures, The Canadian Mineralogist, 9, 311-321 [view file]
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
Petruk W, Harris D C, Stewart J M (1971) Characteristics of the arsenides, sulpharsenides, and antimonides, The Canadian Mineralogist, 11, 150-186 [view file]
Brostigen G, Kjekshus A, Rømming C (1973) Compounds with the marcasite type crystal structure. VIII. Redetermination of the prototype, Acta Chemica Scandinavica, 27, 2791-2796
Kretschmar U, Scott S D (1976) Phase relations involving arsenopyrite in the system Fe-As-S and their application, The Canadian Mineralogist, 14, 364-386 [view file]
International Mineralogical Association (1980) International Mineralogical Association: Commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Magazine, 43, 1053-1055 [view file]
Tossell J A, Vaughan D J, Burdett J K (1981) Pyrite, marcasite, and arsenopyrite type minerals: Crystal chemical and structural principles, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 7, 177-184
Sharp Z D, Essene E J, Kelly W C (1985) A re-examination of the arenopyrite geothermometer: pressure considerations and applications to natural assemblages, The Canadian Mineralogist, 23, 517-534 [view file]
Fuess H, Kratz T, Töpel-Schadt J, Miehe G (1987) Crystal structure refinement and electron microscopy of arsenopyrite, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 179, 335-346 [view file]
Richardson S, Vaughan D J (1989) Arsenopyrite: a spectroscopic investigation of altered surfaces, Mineralogical Magazine, 53, 223-229 [view file]
Lynch G, Mengel F (1995) Metamorphism of arsenopyrite-pyrite-sphalerite-pyrrhotite lenses, western Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 33, 105-114 [view file]
Cabri L J, Newville M, Gordon R A, Crozier E D, Sutton S R, McMahon G, Jiang D T (2000) Chemical speciation of gold in arsenopyrite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 38, 1265-1281 [view file]
Choi S G, Youm S J (2000) Compositional variation of arsenopyrite and fluid evolution at the Ulsan deposit, southeastern Korea: a low-sulfidation porphyry system, The Canadian Mineralogist, 38, 567-583 [view file]
Arne D C, Bierlein F P, Morgan J W, Stein H J (2001) Re-Os dating of sulfides associated with gold mineralization in central Victoria, Australia, Economic Geology, 96, 1455-1459
Hem S R, Makovicky E, Gervilla F (2001) Compositional trends in Fe, Co, and Ni sulfarsenides and their crystal-chemical implications: results from the Arroyo de la Cueva deposits, Ronda peridotite, southern Spain, The Canadian Mineralogist, 39, 831-853 [view file]
Lentz D R (2002) Sphalerite and arsenopyrite at the Brunswick No. 12 massive-sulfide deposit, Bathurst Camp, New Brunswick: constraints on P-T evolution, The Canadian Mineralogist, 40, 19-31 [view file]
Ondruš P, Veselovský F, Gabašová A, Hloušek J, Šrein 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]
Hem S R, Makovicky E (2004) The system Fe-Co-Ni-As-S. II. Phase relations at in the (Fe,Co,Ni)As_1.5S_0.5 section at 650° and 500°C, The Canadian Mineralogist, 42, 63-86 [view file]
Flemming R L, Salzsauler K A, Sherriff B L, Sidenko N V (2005) Identification of scorodite in fine-grained, high-sulfide, arsenopyrite mine-waste using micro X-ray diffraction (µXRD), The Canadian Mineralogist, 43, 1243-1254 [view file]
Tomkins A G, Frost B R, Pattison D R M (2006) Arsenopyrite melting during metamorphism of sulfide ore deposits, The Canadian Mineralogist, 44, 1045-1062 [view file]
Bindi L, Moëlo Y, Léone P, Suchaud M (2012) Stoichiometric arsenopyrite, FeAsS, from La Roche-Balue Quarry, Loire-Atlantique, France: Crystal structure and Mössbauer study, The Canadian Mineralogist, 50, 471-479 [view file]
Kharbish S, Andráš P (2014) Investigations of the Fe sulfosalts berthierite, garavellite, arsenopyrite, and gudmundite by Raman spectroscopy, Mineralogical Magazine, 78, issue 5 1287-1299
Li Y, He Q, Chen J, Zhao C (2015) Electronic and chemical structures of pyrite and arsenopyrite, Mineralogical Magazine, 79, 1779-1789
Hazarika P, Mishra B, Pruseth K L (2017) Trace-element geochemistry of pyrite and arsenopyrite: Ore genetic implications for late Archean orogenic gold deposits in southern India, Mineralogical Magazine, 81, 661-678

REFERENCES for Arsenopyrite

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]

Glocker E F (1847) Ordo VI. Pyritae. Pyrite. III. Pyritae arsenopyritoidei. 10. Arsenopyrites., in Generum et Specierum Mineralium, Secundum Ordines Naturales Digestorum Synopsis Apud Eduardum Anton 34-43 [view file]

Buerger M J (1936) The symmetry and crystal structure of the minerals of the arsenopyrite group, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 95, 83-113 [view file]

Hutton C O (1950) Studies of heavy detrital minerals, Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 61, 635-710 [view file]

International Mineralogical Association (1962) International Mineralogical Association: Commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Magazine, 33, 260-263 [view file]

Nickel E H (1968) Structural stability of minerals with the pyrite, marcasite, arsenopyrite and löllingite structures, The Canadian Mineralogist, 9, 311-321 [view file]

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

Petruk W, Harris D C, Stewart J M (1971) Characteristics of the arsenides, sulpharsenides, and antimonides, The Canadian Mineralogist, 11, 150-186 [view file]

Brostigen G, Kjekshus A, Rømming C (1973) Compounds with the marcasite type crystal structure. VIII. Redetermination of the prototype, Acta Chemica Scandinavica, 27, 2791-2796

Kretschmar U, Scott S D (1976) Phase relations involving arsenopyrite in the system Fe-As-S and their application, The Canadian Mineralogist, 14, 364-386 [view file]

International Mineralogical Association (1980) International Mineralogical Association: Commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Magazine, 43, 1053-1055 [view file]

Tossell J A, Vaughan D J, Burdett J K (1981) Pyrite, marcasite, and arsenopyrite type minerals: Crystal chemical and structural principles, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 7, 177-184

Sharp Z D, Essene E J, Kelly W C (1985) A re-examination of the arenopyrite geothermometer: pressure considerations and applications to natural assemblages, The Canadian Mineralogist, 23, 517-534 [view file]

Fuess H, Kratz T, Töpel-Schadt J, Miehe G (1987) Crystal structure refinement and electron microscopy of arsenopyrite, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 179, 335-346 [view file]

Richardson S, Vaughan D J (1989) Arsenopyrite: a spectroscopic investigation of altered surfaces, Mineralogical Magazine, 53, 223-229 [view file]

Lynch G, Mengel F (1995) Metamorphism of arsenopyrite-pyrite-sphalerite-pyrrhotite lenses, western Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 33, 105-114 [view file]

Cabri L J, Newville M, Gordon R A, Crozier E D, Sutton S R, McMahon G, Jiang D T (2000) Chemical speciation of gold in arsenopyrite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 38, 1265-1281 [view file]

Choi S G, Youm S J (2000) Compositional variation of arsenopyrite and fluid evolution at the Ulsan deposit, southeastern Korea: a low-sulfidation porphyry system, The Canadian Mineralogist, 38, 567-583 [view file]

Arne D C, Bierlein F P, Morgan J W, Stein H J (2001) Re-Os dating of sulfides associated with gold mineralization in central Victoria, Australia, Economic Geology, 96, 1455-1459

Hem S R, Makovicky E, Gervilla F (2001) Compositional trends in Fe, Co, and Ni sulfarsenides and their crystal-chemical implications: results from the Arroyo de la Cueva deposits, Ronda peridotite, southern Spain, The Canadian Mineralogist, 39, 831-853 [view file]

Lentz D R (2002) Sphalerite and arsenopyrite at the Brunswick No. 12 massive-sulfide deposit, Bathurst Camp, New Brunswick: constraints on P-T evolution, The Canadian Mineralogist, 40, 19-31 [view file]

Ondruš P, Veselovský F, Gabašová A, Hloušek J, Šrein 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]

Hem S R, Makovicky E (2004) The system Fe-Co-Ni-As-S. II. Phase relations at in the (Fe,Co,Ni)As_1.5S_0.5 section at 650° and 500°C, The Canadian Mineralogist, 42, 63-86 [view file]

Flemming R L, Salzsauler K A, Sherriff B L, Sidenko N V (2005) Identification of scorodite in fine-grained, high-sulfide, arsenopyrite mine-waste using micro X-ray diffraction (µXRD), The Canadian Mineralogist, 43, 1243-1254 [view file]

Tomkins A G, Frost B R, Pattison D R M (2006) Arsenopyrite melting during metamorphism of sulfide ore deposits, The Canadian Mineralogist, 44, 1045-1062 [view file]

Bindi L, Moëlo Y, Léone P, Suchaud M (2012) Stoichiometric arsenopyrite, FeAsS, from La Roche-Balue Quarry, Loire-Atlantique, France: Crystal structure and Mössbauer study, The Canadian Mineralogist, 50, 471-479 [view file]

Kharbish S, Andráš P (2014) Investigations of the Fe sulfosalts berthierite, garavellite, arsenopyrite, and gudmundite by Raman spectroscopy, Mineralogical Magazine, 78, issue 5 1287-1299

Li Y, He Q, Chen J, Zhao C (2015) Electronic and chemical structures of pyrite and arsenopyrite, Mineralogical Magazine, 79, 1779-1789

Hazarika P, Mishra B, Pruseth K L (2017) Trace-element geochemistry of pyrite and arsenopyrite: Ore genetic implications for late Archean orogenic gold deposits in southern India, Mineralogical Magazine, 81, 661-678