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Tellurite R070606

Name: Tellurite
RRUFF ID: R070606
Ideal Chemistry: TeO₂
Locality: Moctezuma mine, Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico
Source: James Shigley [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Colorless massive crystalline, associated with quartz and tellurium
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction.

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RAMAN SPECTRUM

RRUFF ID:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

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BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS

RRUFF ID:

R070606

Wavelength:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

Instrument settings:

Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW

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POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R070606.9

Sample Description:

Single crystal, powder profile is calculated

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 12.045(3)Å b: 5.462(1)Å c: 5.604(2)Å
alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 368.7(1)Å³ Crystal System: orthorhombic

File Type Information

Calculated diffraction file.

File Type Information

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

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REFERENCES for Tellurite
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]
Haidinger W (1845) Zweite Klasse: Geogenide. II. Ordnung. Baryte. VIII. Antimonbaryt. Tellurit., in Handbuch der Bestimmenden Mineralogie Bei Braumüller and Seidel Wien 499-506 [view file]
Genth F A (1877) On some tellurium and vanadium minerals, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 17, 113-123 [view file]
Mandarino J A, Williams S J, Mitchell R S (1963) Denningite, a new tellurite mineral from Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico, The Canadian Mineralogist, 7, 443-452 [view file]
Beyer H (1967) Verfeinerung der kristallstruktur von tellurit, dem rhombischen TeO₂, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 124, 228-237 [view file]
Gait R I, Harris D C (1972) Hauchecornite — antimonian, arsenian and tellurian varieties, The Canadian Mineralogist, 11, 819-825 [view file]
Pertlik F (1984) Kristallchemie natürlicher Telluride I: Verfeinerung der Kristallstruktur des Sylvanits, AuAgTe₄, Tschermaks Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen, 33, 203-212
Powell D W, Thomas R G, Williams P A, Birch W D, Plimer I R (1994) Choloalite: synthesis and revised chemical formula, Mineralogical Magazine, 58, 505-508 [view file]
Christy A G, Mills S J, Kampf A R, Housley R M, Thorne B, Marty J (2016) The relationship between mineral composition, crystal structure and paragenetic sequence: the case of secondary Te mineralization at the Bird Nest drift, Otto Mountain, California, USA, Mineralogical Magazine, 80, 291-310
Missen O P, Mills S J, Spratt J (2019) Crystal chemistry of zemannite-type structures: II. Synthetic sodium zemannite, European Journal of Mineralogy, 31, 529-536 [view file]

REFERENCES for Tellurite

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]

Haidinger W (1845) Zweite Klasse: Geogenide. II. Ordnung. Baryte. VIII. Antimonbaryt. Tellurit., in Handbuch der Bestimmenden Mineralogie Bei Braumüller and Seidel Wien 499-506 [view file]

Genth F A (1877) On some tellurium and vanadium minerals, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 17, 113-123 [view file]

Mandarino J A, Williams S J, Mitchell R S (1963) Denningite, a new tellurite mineral from Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico, The Canadian Mineralogist, 7, 443-452 [view file]

Beyer H (1967) Verfeinerung der kristallstruktur von tellurit, dem rhombischen TeO₂, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 124, 228-237 [view file]

Gait R I, Harris D C (1972) Hauchecornite — antimonian, arsenian and tellurian varieties, The Canadian Mineralogist, 11, 819-825 [view file]

Pertlik F (1984) Kristallchemie natürlicher Telluride I: Verfeinerung der Kristallstruktur des Sylvanits, AuAgTe₄, Tschermaks Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen, 33, 203-212

Powell D W, Thomas R G, Williams P A, Birch W D, Plimer I R (1994) Choloalite: synthesis and revised chemical formula, Mineralogical Magazine, 58, 505-508 [view file]

Christy A G, Mills S J, Kampf A R, Housley R M, Thorne B, Marty J (2016) The relationship between mineral composition, crystal structure and paragenetic sequence: the case of secondary Te mineralization at the Bird Nest drift, Otto Mountain, California, USA, Mineralogical Magazine, 80, 291-310

Missen O P, Mills S J, Spratt J (2019) Crystal chemistry of zemannite-type structures: II. Synthetic sodium zemannite, European Journal of Mineralogy, 31, 529-536 [view file]