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|   |   | Name: Hedleyite RRUFF ID: R100114 Ideal Chemistry: Bi7Te3 Locality: Good Hope mine, Hedley, British Columbia, Canada Source: Robert Woodside [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Tin-white platy masses Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. | 
| Mineral Group: [ Tetradymite (8) ] | ||
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| RRUFF ID: | R100114.9 | ||||||
| Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
| Cell Refinement Output: | a: 4.462(7)Å    b: 4.462(7)Å    c: 17.81(6)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 120° Volume: 307.1(1)Å3 Crystal System: hexagonal | ||||||
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| REFERENCES for Hedleyite | |
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| 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] | |
| Fleischer M (1945) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 30, 644-644 [view file] | |
| Warren H V, Peacock M A (1945) Hedleyite, a new bismuth telluride from British Columbia, with notes on wehrlite and some bismuth-tellurium alloys, University of Toronto Studies: VI. Geological Series, 49, 55-69 [view file] | |
| Thompson R M (1949) The telluride minerals and their occurrence in Canada, American Mineralogist, 34, 342-382 [view file] | |
| Fleischer M (1963) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 48, 433-437 [view file] | |
| Cook N J, Ciobanu C L, Wagner T, Stanley C J (2007) Minerals of the system Bi-Te-Se-S related to the tetradymite archetype: review of the classification and compositional varation, The Canadian Mineralogist, 45, 665-708 [view file] | |
| Ciobanu C L, Pring A, Cook N J, Self P, Jefferson D, Dima G I, Melnikov V (2009) Chemical-structural modularity in the tetradymite group: A HRTEM study, American Mineralogist, 94, 517-534 [view file] | |
| Cabral A R, Corrěa Neto A V (2015) Empirical Bi8Te3 and Bi2Te from the São Sebastião gold deposit, Brazil: Implications for lode-gold mineralization in Minas Gerais, The Canadian Mineralogist, 53, 1061-1072 | |
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