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Name: Altaite RRUFF ID: R060939 Ideal Chemistry: PbTe Locality: 870 Level, Mattagami mine, Matagami, Quebec, Canada Source: Michael Scott S100891 [view label] Owner: Michael Scott Description: Gray metallic crystals with excellent cleavage Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis. |
Mineral Group: [ Rocksalt (18) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R060939.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 6.410(9)Å b: 6.410(9)Å c: 6.410(9)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 263.4(1)Å3 Crystal System: cubic |
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REFERENCES for Altaite | |
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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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Haidinger W (1845) Zweite Klasse: Geogenide. XII. Ordung. Metalle. II. Tellur. Altait, in Handbuch der Bestimmenden Mineralogie Bei Braumüller and Seidel Wien 556-559 [view file] |
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Genth F A (1868) Contributions to mineralogy - No. VII, American Journal of Science and Arts, 95, 305-321 [view file] |
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Ramsdell L S (1925) The crystal structure of some metallic sulfides, American Mineralogist, 10, 281-304 [view file] |
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Thompson R M (1949) The telluride minerals and their occurrence in Canada, American Mineralogist, 34, 342-382 [view file] |
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Noda Y, Masumoto K, Ohba S, Saito Y, Toriumi K, Iwata Y, Shibuya I (1987) Temperature dependence of atomic thermal parameters of lead chalcogenides, PbS, PbSe and PbTe, Acta Crystallographica, C43, 1443-1445 |
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Knight K S (2016) Does altaite exhibit emphanitic behavior? A high resolution neutron powder diffraction investigation of the crystallographic and thermoelastic properties of PbTe between 10 and 500 k, The Canadian Mineralogist, 54, 1493-1503 |
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