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Name: Rajite RRUFF ID: R060729 Ideal Chemistry: CuTe4+2O5 Locality: Lone Pine mine, Catron County, New Mexico, USA Source: Bob Jenkins [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Bundles of green to white bladed crystals Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis. |
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| RRUFF ID: | R060729.9 | ||||||
| Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
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a: 6.868(1)Å b: 9.329(2)Å c: 7.600(2)Å alpha: 90° beta: 109.09(1)° gamma: 90° Volume: 460.1(1)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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| REFERENCES for Rajite | |
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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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Hanke K, Kupčik V, Lindqvist O (1978) The crystal structure of CuTe2O5, Acta Crystallographica, B29, 963-970 |
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Fleischer M, Burns R G, Cabri L J, Chao G Y, Hogarth D D, Pabst A (1979) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 64, 1329-1334 [view file] |
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Williams S A (1979) Rajite, naturally occuring cupric pyrotellurite, a new mineral, Mineralogical Magazine, 43, 91-92 [view file] |
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Frost R L, Dickfos M J, Keeffe E C (2008) Raman spectroscopic study of the tellurite minerals: rajite and denningite, Spectrochimica Acta Part A-Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, A71, 1512-1515 |
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