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|   |   | Name: Wakabayashilite RRUFF ID: R060747 Ideal Chemistry: (As,Sb)6As4S14 Locality: White Caps mine, Manhattan, Nye County, Nevada, USA Source: Bob Jenkins [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Yellow fibrous aggregates Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis | 
| Quick search: [ All Wakabayashilite samples (2) ] | ||
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| RRUFF ID: | R060747.1 | ||||||
| Sample Description: | Powder, cell parameters are from single crystal | ||||||
| Cell Refinement Output: | a: 25.31(1)Å    b: 14.613(6)Å    c: 6.515(1)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 2410(1)Å3 Crystal System: orthorhombic | ||||||
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| REFERENCES for Wakabayashilite | |
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| 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] | |
| Kato A, Sakurai K, Ohsumi K (1970) Wakabayashilite (As,Sb)11S18, in Introduction to Japanese Minerals Geological Survey of Japan, Volume 39 92-93 [view file] | |
| Fleischer M (1972) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 57, 1311-1317 [view file] | |
| Scott J D, Nowacki W (1975) New data on wakabayashilite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 13, 418-419 [view file] | |
| Bonazzi P, Lampronti G I, Bindi L, Zandari S (2005) Wakabayashilite, [(As,Sb)6S9][As4S5]: crystal structure, psuedosymmetry, twinning, and revised chemical formula, American Mineralogist, 90, 1108-1114 [view file] | |
| Bonazzi P, Bindi L (2008) A crystallographic review of arsenic sulfides: Effects of chemical variations and changes induced by exposure to light, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 223, 132-147 | |
| Bindi L, Bonazzi P, Zoppi M, Spry P G (2014) Chemical variability in wakabayashilite: a real feature or an analytical artifact?, Mineralogical Magazine, 78, 693-702 | |
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