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Name: Heazlewoodite RRUFF ID: R061074 Ideal Chemistry: Ni3S2 Locality: Tasmania, Australia Source: Michael Scott S102794 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Pale gray metallic massive Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. |
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RRUFF ID: | R061074.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 4.070(4)Å b: 4.070(4)Å c: 4.070(4)Å alpha: 89.69(3)° beta: 89.69(3)° gamma: 89.69(3)° Volume: 67.42(6)Å3 Crystal System: rhombohedral |
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REFERENCES for Heazlewoodite | |
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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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Smith J H (1897) Heazlewood and Whyte River Districts, Tasmania. Report of the Secretary for Mines, 1896-7, 47-47 [view file] |
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Petterd W F (1910) 236. Pentlandite (sulphide of iron and nickel) - heazlewoodite, in Catalogue of the Minerals of Tasmania Mines Department Tasmania 134-135 [view file] |
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Westgren A (1938) Die kristallstruktur von Ni3S2, Zeitschrift für Anorganische und Allgemeine Chemie, 239, 82-84 [view file] |
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Fleischer M (1947) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 32, 483-485 [view file] |
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Lundqvist D (1947) X-ray studies on the binary system Ni-S, Arkiv för Kemi, Mineralogi och Geologi, 24A, issue 21 1-12 |
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Ramdohr P (1950) Über das Vorkommen von Heazlewoodit Ni3S2 und über ein neues ihn begleitendes Mineral: Shandit Ni3Pb2S2, Sitzungsberichte der Deutchen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 6, 1-29 [view file] |
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Naldrett A J (1965) Heazlewoodite in the Porcupine District (Ontario), The Canadian Mineralogist, 8, 383-385 [view file] |
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Chamberlain J A (1966) Heazlewoodite and awaruite in serpentinites of the Eastern Townships, Quebec, The Canadian Mineralogist, 8, 519-522 [view file] |
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Fleet M E (1977) The crystal structure of heazlewoodite, and metallic bonds in sulfide minerals, American Mineralogist, 62, 341-345 [view file] |
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Parise J B (1980) Structure of hazelwoodite (Ni3S2), Acta Crystallographica, B36, 1179-1180 |
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Pasquariello D M, Kershaw R, Passaretti J D, Dwight K, Wold A (1984) Low-temperature synthesis and properties of Co9S8, Ni3S2, and Fe7S8, Inorganic Chemistry, 23, 872-874 |
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Metcalf P A, Fanwick P, Kakol Z, Honig J M (1993) Synthesis and characterization of Ni3S2 single crystals, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 104, 81-87 |
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Fjellvâg H (1994) Properties of Ni3S2 at high temperatures, Acta Chemica Scandinavica, 48, 290-293 |
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Gibbs G V, Downs R T, Prewitt C T, Rosso K M, Ross N L, Cox D F (2005) Electron density distributions calculated for the nickel sulfides millerite, vaesite, and heazlewoodite and nickel metal: A case for the importance of Ni-Ni bond paths for electron transport, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 109, 21788-21795 [view file] |
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Cheng Z, Abernathy H, Liu M (2007) Raman spectroscopy of nickel sulfide Ni3S2, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 111, 17997-18000 |
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Yu Y G, Ross N L (2011) Vibrational and thermodynamic properties of Ni3S2 polymorphs from first-principles calculations, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 38, 241-249 |
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Majzlan J, Kiefer S, Lilova K, Subramani T, Navrotsky A, Tuhý M, Vymazalová A, Chareev D A, Dachs E, Benisek A (2022) Calorimetric study of skutterudite (CoAs2.92) and heazlewoodite (Ni3S2), American Mineralogist, 107, 2219-2225 |
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