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Name: Leadhillite RRUFF ID: R060047 Ideal Chemistry: Pb4(SO4)(CO3)2(OH)2 Locality: Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Otavi District, Oshikoto, Namibia Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 16155 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Grayish-blue cleavage fragment Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis |
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Quick search: [ All Leadhillite samples (2) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R060047.1 | |||||||
Sample Description: | Powder | |||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 9.101(1)Å b: 20.832(1)Å c: 11.5788(4)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90.376(7)° gamma: 90° Volume: 2195.1(2)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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REFERENCES for Leadhillite | |
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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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Beudant F S (1832) Leadhillite, plomb carbonaté rhomboédrique, in Traité Élémentaire de Minéralogie, 2nd Edition Paris 366-367 [view file] |
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Fleischer M (1970) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 55, 1444-1449 [view file] |
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Haacke D F, Williams P A (1981) Stability of plumbonacrite, Journal of Inorganic and Nuclear Chemistry, 43, 406-406 |
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Giuseppetti G, Mazzi F, Tadini C (1990) The crystal structure of leadhillite: Pb4(SO4)(CO3)2(OH)2, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1990, 255-268 |
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Frost R L, Kloprogge J T, Williams P A (2003) Raman spectroscopy of lead sulphate-carbonate minerals - implications for hydrogen bonding, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 2003, 529-542 |
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Bindi L, Menchetti S (2005) Structural changes accompanying the phase transformation between leadhillite and susannite: a structural study by means of in situ high-temperature single-crystal X-ray diffraction, American Mineralogist, 90, 1641-1647 [view file] |
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Siidra O, Nekrasova D, Depmeier W, Chukanov N, Zaitsev A, Turner R (2018) Hydrocerussite-related minerals and materials: structural principles, chemical variations and infrared spectroscopy, Acta Crystallographica, B74, 182-195 |
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Markl G, Keim M F, Bayerl R (2019) Unusual mineral diversity in hydrothermal vein-type deposit: The Clara mine, SW Germany, as a type example, The Canadian Mineralogist, 57, 427-456 |
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