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|   |   | Name: Marshite RRUFF ID: R100001 Ideal Chemistry: CuI Locality: Rubtsovskiy, Altai Kray, Russia Source: Marcus Origlieri [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Pale yellow vitreous tetrahedra associated with colorless cerussite Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. | 
| Mineral Group: [ Sphalerite (35) ] | ||
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| RRUFF ID: | R100001.9 | ||||||
| Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
| Cell Refinement Output: | a: 6.059(2)Å    b: 6.059(2)Å    c: 6.059(2)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 222.41(3)Å3 Crystal System: cubic | ||||||
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| REFERENCES for Marshite | |
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| 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] | |
| Marsh C W, Liversidge A (1892) On native copper iodide (marshite) and other minerals from Broken Hills, N. S. Wales., Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 26, 326-332 [view file] | |
| Hull S, Keen D A (1994) High-pressure polymorphism of the copper(I) halides: A neutron-diffraction study to ~10 GPa, Physical Review B, 50, 5868-5885 | |
| Cooper M A, Hawthorne F C (1997) A note on the crystal structure of marshite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 35, 785-786 [view file] | |
| Millsteed P W (1998) Marshite - miersite solid solution and iodargyrite from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia, Mineralogical Magazine, 62, 471-475 [view file] | |
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