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Name: Sartorite RRUFF ID: R130104 Ideal Chemistry: PbAs2S4 Locality: Lengenbach Quarry, Im Feld, Binn Valley, Wallis, Switzerland Source: Donald Doell (Small piece), Rock Currier (Large piece) [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Prismatic dark lead-grey crystals, associated with pyrite, dolomite, and quartz. Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. |
Mineral Group: [ Sartorite (5) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R130104.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 37.67(1)Å b: 7.885(5)Å c: 20.016(8)Å alpha: 90° beta: 101.96(3)° gamma: 90° Volume: 5816(1)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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REFERENCES for Sartorite | |
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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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Dana J D, Brush G J (1868) 105. Sartorite, in A System of Mineralogy, Fifth Edition John Wiley and Sons New York 87-88 [view file] |
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Iitaka Y, Nowacki W (1961) A refinement of the pseudo crystal structure of scleroclase PbAs2S4, Acta Crystallographica, 14, 1291-1292 |
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Makovicky E (1985) The building principles and classification of sulphosalts based on the SnS archetype, Fortschritte der Mineralogie, 63, 45-89 |
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Pring A (1990) Disordered intergrowths in lead-arsenic sulfide minerals and the paragenesis of the sartorite-group minerals, American Mineralogist, 75, 289-294 [view file] |
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Pring A (2001) The crystal chemistry of the sartorite group minerals from Lengenbach, Binntal, Switzerland - a HRTEM study, Schweizerische Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen, 81, 69-87 |
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Berlepsch P, Armbruster T, Topa D (2002) Structural and chemical variations in rathite, Pb8Pb4-x(Tl2As2)x(Ag2As2)As16S40: modulations of a parent structure, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 217, 581-590 |
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Roth P (2007) Sartorite, in Minerals first discovered in Switzerland and minerals named after Swiss individuals Kristallografik Verlag Achberg Germany 128-129 |
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Makovicky E, Topa D (2015) Crystal chemical formula for sartorite homologues, Mineralogical Magazine, 79, 25-31 |
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Makovicky E, Topa D, Stoeger B (2018) The crystal structures of heptasartorite, Tl7Pb22As55S108, and enneasartorite, Tl6Pb32As70S140, two members of an anion-omission series of complex sulfosalts from Lengenbach, the Swiss Alps, and comparison with the structures of As-Sb sartorite homologues, European Journal of Mineralogy, 30, 149-164 [view file] |
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Makovicky E (2019) Algorithms for calculations of homologue order N in the homologous series of sulfosalts, European Journal of Mineralogy, 31, 83-97 |
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