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The data on this website is already three years out of date, and the entire website will be taken offline before the end of the year.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.
|
|
Name: Scotlandite RRUFF ID: R100043 Ideal Chemistry: Pb(S4+O3) Locality: Grand Reef mine, Klondyke, Aravaipa District, Graham County, Arizona, USA Source: William W. Pinch [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Colorless, elongated tabular crystals associated with aravaipaite R100032 and laurelite R100011 Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. |
| Quick search: [ All Scotlandite samples (2) ] | ||
| RAMAN SPECTRUM | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
||||||||||||
| BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
||||||||||||
| POWDER DIFFRACTION | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RRUFF ID: | R100043.9 | ||||||
| Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
| Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 4.507(3)Å b: 5.335(2)Å c: 6.389(3)Å alpha: 90° beta: 106.21(3)° gamma: 90° Volume: 147.52(9)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
||||||
|
|
||||||
| REFERENCES for Scotlandite | |
|---|---|
|
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] |
|
|
Paar W H, Braithwaite R S W, Chen T T, Keller P (1984) A new mineral, scotlandite (PbSO3) from Leadhills, Scotland; the first naturally occurring sulphite, Mineralogical Magazine, 48, 283-288 [view file] |
|
|
Dunn P J, Fleischer M, Langley R H, Shigley J E, Zilczer J A (1985) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 70, 871-881 [view file] |
|
|
Pertlik F, Zemann J (1985) The crystal structure of scotlandite, PbSO3, Tschermaks Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen, 34, 289-295 |
|
|
Jambor J L, Roberts A C (2004) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 89, 467-471 [view file] |
|
|
|