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Cobaltite R100119

Name: Cobaltite
RRUFF ID: R100119
Ideal Chemistry: CoAsS
Locality: Deerhorn mine, Cobalt, Ontario, Canada
Source: Robert Woodside [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Metallic silver-gray cubes
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction.

Mineral Group: [ Cobaltite (5) ]

Quick search: [ All Cobaltite samples (3) ]

RAMAN SPECTRUM

RRUFF ID:

Sample Description:

Unoriented Sample

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RRUFF ID:

R100119

Wavelength:

Sample Description:

Unoriented Sample

Instrument settings:

Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW

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POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R100119.9

Sample Description:

Single crystal, powder profile is calculated

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 5.593(1)Å b: 5.594(1)Å c: 5.5900(9)Å
alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 174.91(6)Å³ Crystal System: orthorhombic

File Type Information

Calculated diffraction file.

File Type Information

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

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REFERENCES for Cobaltite
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]
Beudant F S (1832) Cobaltine, in Traité Élémentaire de Minéralogie, 2nd Edition Paris 450-451 [view file]
Ramsdell L S (1925) The crystal structure of some metallic sulfides, American Mineralogist, 10, 281-304 [view file]
Onorato E (1957) X-ray examination of cobaltite, Acta Crystallographica, 10, 764-765
Giese R F, Kerr P F (1965) The crystal structures of ordered and disordered cobaltite, American Mineralogist, 50, 1002-1014 [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
Petruk W, Harris D C, Stewart J M (1971) Characteristics of the arsenides, sulpharsenides, and antimonides, The Canadian Mineralogist, 11, 150-186 [view file]
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]
Fleet M E, Burns P C (1990) Structure and twinning of cobaltite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 28, 719-723 [view file]
Hem S R, Makovicky E, Gervilla F (2001) Compositional trends in Fe, Co, and Ni sulfarsenides and their crystal-chemical implications: results from the Arroyo de la Cueva deposits, Ronda peridotite, southern Spain, The Canadian Mineralogist, 39, 831-853 [view file]
Wagner T, Lerenz J (2002) Mineralogy of complex Co-Ni-Bi vein mineralization, Bieber deposit, Spessart, Germany, Mineralogical Magazine, 66, 385-407 [view file]
Hem S R, Makovicky E (2004) The system Fe-Co-Ni-As-S. II. Phase relations at in the (Fe,Co,Ni)As_1.5S_0.5 section at 650° and 500°C, The Canadian Mineralogist, 42, 63-86 [view file]
Barkov A Y, Fedortchouk Y, Campbell R A, Halkoaho T A A (2015) Coupled substitutions in PGE-enriched cobaltite: new evidence from the Rio Jacaré layered complex, Bahia state, Brazil, Mineralogical Magazine, 79, 1185-1193
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]

REFERENCES for Cobaltite

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]

Beudant F S (1832) Cobaltine, in Traité Élémentaire de Minéralogie, 2nd Edition Paris 450-451 [view file]

Ramsdell L S (1925) The crystal structure of some metallic sulfides, American Mineralogist, 10, 281-304 [view file]

Onorato E (1957) X-ray examination of cobaltite, Acta Crystallographica, 10, 764-765

Giese R F, Kerr P F (1965) The crystal structures of ordered and disordered cobaltite, American Mineralogist, 50, 1002-1014 [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

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

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]

Fleet M E, Burns P C (1990) Structure and twinning of cobaltite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 28, 719-723 [view file]

Hem S R, Makovicky E, Gervilla F (2001) Compositional trends in Fe, Co, and Ni sulfarsenides and their crystal-chemical implications: results from the Arroyo de la Cueva deposits, Ronda peridotite, southern Spain, The Canadian Mineralogist, 39, 831-853 [view file]

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

Hem S R, Makovicky E (2004) The system Fe-Co-Ni-As-S. II. Phase relations at in the (Fe,Co,Ni)As_1.5S_0.5 section at 650° and 500°C, The Canadian Mineralogist, 42, 63-86 [view file]

Barkov A Y, Fedortchouk Y, Campbell R A, Halkoaho T A A (2015) Coupled substitutions in PGE-enriched cobaltite: new evidence from the Rio Jacaré layered complex, Bahia state, Brazil, Mineralogical Magazine, 79, 1185-1193

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]