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Skutterudite R050593

Name: Skutterudite
RRUFF ID: R050593
Ideal Chemistry: CoAs₃
Locality: Bou Azzer, Morocco
Source: Marcus Origlieri
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Gray metallic, massive to coarsely crystalline
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis

Mineral Groups: [ Skutterudite (6) ] [ Perovskite (44) ]

Quick search: [ All Skutterudite samples (3) ]

CHEMISTRY

RRUFF ID:	R050593.2
Sample Description:	Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry:	(Co_0.86Fe_0.11Ni_0.07)_Σ=1.04(As_2.93S_0.07)_Σ=3.00
Microprobe Data File:	[ Download Excel File ]

RAMAN SPECTRUM

RRUFF ID:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

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BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS

RRUFF ID:

R050593

Wavelength:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

Instrument settings:

Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW

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INFRARED SPECTRUM (Attenuated Total Reflectance)

RRUFF ID:

R050593.1

Instrument settings:

SensIR Durascope on a Nicolet Magna 860 FTIR

Resolution:

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POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R050593.1

Sample Description:

Powder

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 8.2149(4)Å b: 8.2149(4)Å c: 8.2149(4)Å
alpha: 90.° beta: 90.° gamma: 90.° Volume: 554.38(8)Å³ Crystal System: cubic

File Type Information

Calculated diffraction file.

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

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

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REFERENCES for Skutterudite
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]
Breithaupt J F A (1827) Ueber eine neue kies-spezies von skutterud, Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 9, 115-116 [view file]
Haidinger W (1845) Zweite Klasse: Geogenide. XIII. Ordnung. Kiese III. Kobaltkies. Skutterudit, in Handbuch der Bestimmenden Mineralogie Bei Braumüller and Seidel Wien 559-562 [view file]
Vollhardt G (1888) Versuche über Speiskobalt, Zeitschrift für Krystallographie und Mineralogie, 14, 407-408 [view file]
Oftedal I (1926) The crystal structure of skutterudite and related minerals, Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift, 8, 250-257 [view file]
Oftedal I (1928) Die Kristallstruktur von Skutterudit und Speiskobalt-Chloanthit, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 66, 517-546
Fleischer M (1943) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 28, 61-64 [view file]
Holmes R J (1947) Higher mineral arsenides of cobalt, nickel, and iron, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 58, 299-392 [view file]
Fleischer M (1948) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 33, 98-100 [view file]
Ventriglia U (1957) Studi strutturali sugli arseniuri di cobalto, Periodico di Mineralogia, 26, 345-383 [view file]
Roseboom E H (1962) Skutterudites (Co,Ni,Fe)As_3-x: Composition and cell dimensions, American Mineralogist, 47, 310-327 [view file]
Klemm D D (1965) Untersuchungen mit der Elektronenmikrosonde über die natürlichen Mischkristallbereiche der Skutterudite, Beiträge zur Mineralogie und Petrographie, 11, 323-333
Radcliffe D (1968) Shorter communications: Structural formula and composition of skutterudite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 9, 559-563 [view file]
Nickel E H (1969) The application of ligand-field concepts to an understanding of the structural stabilities and solid-solution limits of sulphides and related minerals, Chemical Geology, 5, 233-241
Mandel N, Donohue J (1971) The refinement of the crystal structure of skutterudite, CoAs₃, Acta Crystallographica, B27, 2288-2289
Petruk W, Harris D C, Stewart J M (1971) Characteristics of the arsenides, sulpharsenides, and antimonides, The Canadian Mineralogist, 11, 150-186 [view file]
Kjekshus A, Rakke T (1974) Compounds with the skutterudite type crystal structure. III. Structural data for arsenides and antimonides, Acta Chemica Scandinavica, A28, 99-103
Pauling L (1978) Covalent chemical bonding of transition metals in pyrite, cobaltite, skutterudite, millerite and related minerals, The Canadian Mineralogist, 16, 447-452 [view file]
Nolas G S, Slack G A, Caillat T, Meisner G P (1996) Raman scattering study of antimony-based skutterudites, Journal of Applied Physics, 79, 2622-2626
Anno H, Matsubara K, Caillat T, Fleurial J P (2000) Valence-band structure of the skutterudite compounds CoAs₃, CoSb₃, and RhSb₃ studied by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, Physical Review B, 62, 10737-10743
Uher C (2001) Skutterudites: Prospective novel thermoelectrics, Semiconductors and Semimetals, 69, 139-253
Wagner T, Lerenz J (2002) Mineralogy of complex Co-Ni-Bi vein mineralization, Bieber deposit, Spessart, Germany, Mineralogical Magazine, 66, 385-407 [view file]
Ondruš P, Veselovský F, Gabašová A, Hloušek J, Šrein 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]
He T, Chen J, Rosenfeld H D, Subramanian M A (2006) Thermoelectric properties of indium-filled skutterudites, Chemistry of Materials, 18, 759-762
Peng J, Yang J, Bao S, Chen Y, Zhang T (2006) Study on Raman spectra of CoSb₃-based skutterudite compounds, Rare Metal Materials and Engineering, 35, 272-275 [view file]
Prytz Ø, Taftø J, Ahn C C, Fultz B (2007) Transition metal d-band occupancy in skutterudites studied by electron energy-loss spectroscopy, Physical Review B, 75, 125109-6
Spiridonov E M, Gritsenko Y D (2007) Ferroskutterudite, nickelskutterudite, and skutterudite from the Norilsk ore field, New Data on Minerals. Moscow, 42, 16-27 [view file]
Liang Y, Borrmann H, Baenitz M, Schnelle W, Budnyk S, Zhao J T, Grin Y (2008) Sn_xPt₄Sn_ySb_12-y: A skutterudite with covalently bonded filler, Inorganic Chemistry, 47, 9489-8496
Hålenius U, Hatert F, Pasero M, Mills S J (2017) IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) Newsletter 35. New minerals and nomenclature modifications approved in 2016 and 2017, Mineralogical Magazine, 81, 209-213 [view file]
Hazen R M, Hystad G, Golden J J, Hummer D R, Liu C, Downs R T, Morrison S M, Ralph J, Grew E S (2017) Cobalt mineral ecology, American Mineralogist, 102, 108-116 [view file]
Mitchell R H, Welch M D, Chakhmouradian A R (2017) Nomenclature of the perovskite supergroup: A hierarchical system of classification based on crystal structure and composition, Mineralogical Magazine, 81, 411-461 [view file]
Schumer B N, Andrade M B, Evans S H, Downs R T (2017) A new formula and crystal structure for nickelskutterudite, (Ni,Co,Fe)As₃, and occupancy of the icosahedral cation site in the skutterudite group, American Mineralogist, 102, 205-209 [view file]
Majzlan J, Kiefer S, Lilova K, Subramani T, Navrotsky A, Tuhý M, Vymazalová A, Chareev D A, Dachs E, Benisek A (2022) Calorimetric study of skutterudite (CoAs_2.92) and heazlewoodite (Ni₃S₂), American Mineralogist, 107, 2219-2225

REFERENCES for Skutterudite

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]

Breithaupt J F A (1827) Ueber eine neue kies-spezies von skutterud, Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 9, 115-116 [view file]

Haidinger W (1845) Zweite Klasse: Geogenide. XIII. Ordnung. Kiese III. Kobaltkies. Skutterudit, in Handbuch der Bestimmenden Mineralogie Bei Braumüller and Seidel Wien 559-562 [view file]

Vollhardt G (1888) Versuche über Speiskobalt, Zeitschrift für Krystallographie und Mineralogie, 14, 407-408 [view file]

Oftedal I (1926) The crystal structure of skutterudite and related minerals, Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift, 8, 250-257 [view file]

Oftedal I (1928) Die Kristallstruktur von Skutterudit und Speiskobalt-Chloanthit, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 66, 517-546

Fleischer M (1943) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 28, 61-64 [view file]

Holmes R J (1947) Higher mineral arsenides of cobalt, nickel, and iron, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 58, 299-392 [view file]

Fleischer M (1948) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 33, 98-100 [view file]

Ventriglia U (1957) Studi strutturali sugli arseniuri di cobalto, Periodico di Mineralogia, 26, 345-383 [view file]

Roseboom E H (1962) Skutterudites (Co,Ni,Fe)As_3-x: Composition and cell dimensions, American Mineralogist, 47, 310-327 [view file]

Klemm D D (1965) Untersuchungen mit der Elektronenmikrosonde über die natürlichen Mischkristallbereiche der Skutterudite, Beiträge zur Mineralogie und Petrographie, 11, 323-333

Radcliffe D (1968) Shorter communications: Structural formula and composition of skutterudite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 9, 559-563 [view file]

Nickel E H (1969) The application of ligand-field concepts to an understanding of the structural stabilities and solid-solution limits of sulphides and related minerals, Chemical Geology, 5, 233-241

Mandel N, Donohue J (1971) The refinement of the crystal structure of skutterudite, CoAs₃, Acta Crystallographica, B27, 2288-2289

Petruk W, Harris D C, Stewart J M (1971) Characteristics of the arsenides, sulpharsenides, and antimonides, The Canadian Mineralogist, 11, 150-186 [view file]

Kjekshus A, Rakke T (1974) Compounds with the skutterudite type crystal structure. III. Structural data for arsenides and antimonides, Acta Chemica Scandinavica, A28, 99-103

Pauling L (1978) Covalent chemical bonding of transition metals in pyrite, cobaltite, skutterudite, millerite and related minerals, The Canadian Mineralogist, 16, 447-452 [view file]

Nolas G S, Slack G A, Caillat T, Meisner G P (1996) Raman scattering study of antimony-based skutterudites, Journal of Applied Physics, 79, 2622-2626

Anno H, Matsubara K, Caillat T, Fleurial J P (2000) Valence-band structure of the skutterudite compounds CoAs₃, CoSb₃, and RhSb₃ studied by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, Physical Review B, 62, 10737-10743

Uher C (2001) Skutterudites: Prospective novel thermoelectrics, Semiconductors and Semimetals, 69, 139-253

Wagner T, Lerenz J (2002) Mineralogy of complex Co-Ni-Bi vein mineralization, Bieber deposit, Spessart, Germany, Mineralogical Magazine, 66, 385-407 [view file]

Ondruš P, Veselovský F, Gabašová A, Hloušek J, Šrein 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]

He T, Chen J, Rosenfeld H D, Subramanian M A (2006) Thermoelectric properties of indium-filled skutterudites, Chemistry of Materials, 18, 759-762

Peng J, Yang J, Bao S, Chen Y, Zhang T (2006) Study on Raman spectra of CoSb₃-based skutterudite compounds, Rare Metal Materials and Engineering, 35, 272-275 [view file]

Prytz Ø, Taftø J, Ahn C C, Fultz B (2007) Transition metal d-band occupancy in skutterudites studied by electron energy-loss spectroscopy, Physical Review B, 75, 125109-6

Spiridonov E M, Gritsenko Y D (2007) Ferroskutterudite, nickelskutterudite, and skutterudite from the Norilsk ore field, New Data on Minerals. Moscow, 42, 16-27 [view file]

Liang Y, Borrmann H, Baenitz M, Schnelle W, Budnyk S, Zhao J T, Grin Y (2008) Sn_xPt₄Sn_ySb_12-y: A skutterudite with covalently bonded filler, Inorganic Chemistry, 47, 9489-8496

Hålenius U, Hatert F, Pasero M, Mills S J (2017) IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) Newsletter 35. New minerals and nomenclature modifications approved in 2016 and 2017, Mineralogical Magazine, 81, 209-213 [view file]

Hazen R M, Hystad G, Golden J J, Hummer D R, Liu C, Downs R T, Morrison S M, Ralph J, Grew E S (2017) Cobalt mineral ecology, American Mineralogist, 102, 108-116 [view file]

Mitchell R H, Welch M D, Chakhmouradian A R (2017) Nomenclature of the perovskite supergroup: A hierarchical system of classification based on crystal structure and composition, Mineralogical Magazine, 81, 411-461 [view file]

Schumer B N, Andrade M B, Evans S H, Downs R T (2017) A new formula and crystal structure for nickelskutterudite, (Ni,Co,Fe)As₃, and occupancy of the icosahedral cation site in the skutterudite group, American Mineralogist, 102, 205-209 [view file]

Majzlan J, Kiefer S, Lilova K, Subramani T, Navrotsky A, Tuhý M, Vymazalová A, Chareev D A, Dachs E, Benisek A (2022) Calorimetric study of skutterudite (CoAs_2.92) and heazlewoodite (Ni₃S₂), American Mineralogist, 107, 2219-2225