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      Name: Marcasite RRUFF ID: R060882 Ideal Chemistry: FeS2 Locality: Ive's Quarry, Racine, Wisconsin, USA Source: Bob Jenkins [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Brassy yellow prismatic crystals Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis.  | 
| Mineral Group: [ Marcasite (2) ] | ||
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| RRUFF ID: | R060882.9 | ||||||
| Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
| Cell Refinement Output: | 
      a: 3.382(2)Å    b: 4.440(3)Å    c: 5.419(3)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 81.37(4)Å3 Crystal System: orthorhombic  | 
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| REFERENCES for Marcasite | |
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       American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record]  | 
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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]  | 
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          Hill J (1751) Of vitriolic minerals, in A History of the Materia Medica Longman, Hitch and Hawes London 140-147 [view file]  | 
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          Haidinger W (1845) Zweite Klasse: Geogenide. XIII. Ordnung. Kiese. IV. Eisenkies. Markasit., in Handbuch der Bestimmenden Mineralogie Bei Braumüller and Seidel Wien 559-562 [view file]  | 
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          Hutton C O (1950) Studies of heavy detrital minerals, Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 61, 635-710 [view file]  | 
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          Holseth H, Kjekshus A (1968) Compounds with the marcasite type crystal structure III. On the magnetic properties of the binary pnictides, Journal of the Less-Common Metals, 16, 142-144  | 
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          Nickel E H (1968) Structural stability of minerals with the pyrite, marcasite, arsenopyrite and löllingite structures, The Canadian Mineralogist, 9, 311-321 [view file]  | 
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          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  | 
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          Brostigen G, Kjekshus A (1970) Compounds with the marcasite type crystal structure. V. Crystal structures of FeS2, FeTe2, and CoTe2, Acta Chemica Scandinavica, 24, 1925-1940  | 
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          Fleet M E (1970) Structural aspects of the marcasite-pyrite transformation, The Canadian Mineralogist, 10, 225-231 [view file]  | 
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          Brostigen G, Kjekshus A, Rømming C (1973) Compounds with the marcasite type crystal structure. VIII. Redetermination of the prototype, Acta Chemica Scandinavica, 27, 2791-2796  | 
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          Fleet M E (1978) The pyrrhotite - marcasite transformation, The Canadian Mineralogist, 16, 31-35 [view file]  | 
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          Tossell J A, Vaughan D J, Burdett J K (1981) Pyrite, marcasite, and arsenopyrite type minerals: Crystal chemical and structural principles, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 7, 177-184  | 
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          Lutz H D, Muller B (1991) Lattice vibration spectra. LXVIII. Single-crystal Raman spectra of marcasite-type iron chalcogenides and pnictides, FeX2 (X=S,Se,Te;P,As,Sb), Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 18, 265-268  | 
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          Dódony I, Pósfai M, Buseck P R (1996) Structural relationship between pyrite and marcasite, American Mineralogist, 81, 119-125 [view file]  | 
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          Barkov A Y, Laajoki K V O, Men'shikov Y P, Alapieti T T, Sivonen S J (1997) First terrestrial occurrence of titanium-rich pyrrhotite, marcasite and pyrite in a fenitized xenolith from the Khibina alkaline complex, Russia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 35, 875-885 [view file]  | 
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          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]  | 
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          Gibbs G V, Cox D F, Rosso K M, Ross N L, Downs R T, Spackman M A (2007) Theoretical electron density distribution for Fe- and Cu-sulfide Earth materials: A connection between bond length, bond critical point properties, local energy densities, and bonded interactions, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 111, 1923-1931 [view file]  | 
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          Rieder M, Crelling J C, ustai O, Drábek M, Weiss Z, Klementová M (2007) Arsenic in iron disulfides in a brown coal from the North Bohemian Basin, Czech Republic, International Journal of Coal Geology, 71, 115-121  | 
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