---- R070075 - RRUFF Database: Raman, X-ray, Infrared, and Chemistry

Important Update News

The RRUFF Project has been migrated to RRUFF.net. Please update your bookmarks immediately, if you have not done so.

The data on this website is already three years out of date, and the entire website will be taken offline before the end of the year.

We are grateful to NASA for the funding of this effort.

Miassite R070075

Name: Miassite
RRUFF ID: R070075
Ideal Chemistry: Rh₁₇S₁₅
Locality: Yukhtochka placer, Tributary of Aldan River, Yakutia, Russia
Source: Michael Scott S105079 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: A mechanical mixture of dark gray metallic polished grains and pale yellow vanadinite embedded in epoxy
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by chemical analysis

CHEMISTRY

RRUFF ID:	R070075.2
Sample Description:	Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry:	(Rh_11.58Cu_1.47Ru_1.76Fe_1.35Pt_0.35Ir_0.25Ni_0.19Os_0.05)_Σ=17S_15.00
Microprobe Data File:	[ Download Excel File ]

RAMAN SPECTRUM

RRUFF ID:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

DOWNLOADS:

To download sample data,
please select a specific
orientation angle.

BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS

RRUFF ID:

R070075

Wavelength:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

Instrument settings:

Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW

DOWNLOADS:

	Raman Data (RAW)
	RRUFF File

REFERENCES for Miassite
Britvin S N, Rudashevsky N S, Bogdanova A N, Shcherbachev D K (2001) Miassite Rh₁₇S₁₅, a new mineral from a placier of Miass River, Urals, Zapiski Vserossijskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva, 130, issue 2 41-45 [view file]
Khomyakov A P, Nechelyustov G N, Ferraris G, Gula A, Ivaldi G (2001) Labuntsovite-Fe and labuntsovite-Mg- two new minerals from the Khibina and Kovdor alkaline massifs, Kola Peninsula, Zapiski Vserossijskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva, 130, issue 4 36-45 [view file]
Jambor J L, Grew E S, Roberts A C (2002) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 87, 1509-1513 [view file]
Pekov I V (2007) New minerals from former Soviet Union countries, 1998-2006: new minerals approved by the IMA commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Almanac, 11, 9-51 [view file]

REFERENCES for Miassite

Britvin S N, Rudashevsky N S, Bogdanova A N, Shcherbachev D K (2001) Miassite Rh₁₇S₁₅, a new mineral from a placier of Miass River, Urals, Zapiski Vserossijskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva, 130, issue 2 41-45 [view file]

Khomyakov A P, Nechelyustov G N, Ferraris G, Gula A, Ivaldi G (2001) Labuntsovite-Fe and labuntsovite-Mg- two new minerals from the Khibina and Kovdor alkaline massifs, Kola Peninsula, Zapiski Vserossijskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva, 130, issue 4 36-45 [view file]

Jambor J L, Grew E S, Roberts A C (2002) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 87, 1509-1513 [view file]

Pekov I V (2007) New minerals from former Soviet Union countries, 1998-2006: new minerals approved by the IMA commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Almanac, 11, 9-51 [view file]