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|   | Name: Orthogersdorffite RRUFF ID: R070342 Ideal Chemistry: NiAsS Locality: Leichtenberg, Fichtelgebirge, Franconia, Bavaria, Germany Source: Michael Scott S104664 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Dark grey metallic grains embedded in epoxy. Structure refined to determine space group. Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis. | |
| Mineral Group: [ Cobaltite (5) ] | ||
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| RRUFF ID: | R070342.9 | ||||||
| Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
| Cell Refinement Output: | a: 5.6811(6)Å    b: 5.687(1)Å    c: 5.688(1)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 183.76(4)Å3 Crystal System: orthorhombic | ||||||
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| REFERENCES for Orthogersdorffite | |
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| American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record] | |
| Haidinger W (1845) Zweite Klasse: Geogenide. XIII. Ordnung. Kiese. III. Kobaltkies. Gersdorffit, in Handbuch der Bestimmenden Mineralogie Bei Braumüller and Seidel Wien 559-562 [view file] | |
| Bayliss P (1982) A further crystal structure refinement of gersdorffite, American Mineralogist, 67, 1058-1064 [view file] | |
| Bayliss P (1986) Subdivision of the pyrite group, and a chemical and X-ray-diffraction investigation of ullmannite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 24, 27-33 [view file] | |
| 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] | |
| Miyawaki R, Hatert F, Pasero M, Mills S J (2022) IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) Newsletter 69, European Journal of Mineralogy, 34, 463-468 [view file] | |
| Hatert F, Mills S J, Pasero M, Miyawaki R, Bosi F (2023) CNMNC guidelines for the nomenclature of polymorphs and polysomes, Mineralogical Magazine, 87, 225-232 | |
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