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Name: Molybdenite RRUFF ID: R060124 Ideal Chemistry: MoS2 Locality: Crown Point mine, near Chelan, Washington, USA Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 11966 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Steel gray distorted hexagonal tablet on quartz Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis. |
| Mineral Group: [ Molybdenite (3) ] | ||
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| RRUFF ID: | R060124.9 | ||||||
| Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
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a: 3.153(3)Å b: 3.153(3)Å c: 12.27(1)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 120° Volume: 105.6(1)Å3 Crystal System: hexagonal |
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| REFERENCES for Molybdenite | |
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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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Kirwan R (1796) Chapter XIX. Molybdenite, in Elements of Mineralogy, Volume 2 P. Elmsly London 319-323 [view file] |
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Brongniart A (1807) 3e Genre. Molybdène. Esp. Molybdène sulfuré, in Traité Élémentaire de Minéralogie, Volume 2 Deterville Paris 91-93 [view file] |
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Semiletov S A (1961) The crystalline structure of rhombohedral MoS2, Soviet Physics - Crystallography, 6, 428-431 [view file] |
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Fleischer M (1963) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 48, 1413-1421 [view file] |
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Traill R J (1963) A rhombohedral polytype of molybdenite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 7, 524-526 [view file] |
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Mandarino J A, Gait R I (1970) Shorter communications: Molybdenite polytypes in the Royal Ontario Museum, The Canadian Mineralogist, 10, 723-729 [view file] |
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Bailey S W (1977) Report of the I.M.A-I.U.Cr. Joint Committee on Nomenclature, American Mineralogist, 62, 411-415 [view file] |
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Arne D C, Bierlein F P, Morgan J W, Stein H J (2001) Re-Os dating of sulfides associated with gold mineralization in central Victoria, Australia, Economic Geology, 96, 1455-1459 |
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Grabezhev A I, Voudouris P C (2014) Rhenium distribution in molybdenite from the Vosnesensk porphyry Cu ± (Mo,Au) deposit (Southern Urals, Russia), The Canadian Mineralogist, 52, 671-685 |
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Kolitsch U, Rieck B, Brandstätter F, Schreiber F, Fabritz K, Blaß G, Gröbner J (2014) Neufunde aus dem alten Bergbau und den Schlacken von Lavrion (I), Mineralien Welt, 1, 60-75 |
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Plotinskaya O Y, Abramova V D, Groznova E O, Tessalina S G, Seltmann R, Spratt J (2018) Trace-element geochemistry of molybdenite from porphyry Cu deposits of the Birgilda-Tomino ore cluster (South Urals, Russia), Mineralogical Magazine, 82, S281-S306 |
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Plotinskaya O Y, Shilovskikh V V, Najorka J, Kovalchuk E V, Seltmann R, Spratt J (2019) Grain-scale distribution of molybdenite polytypes versus rhenium contents: μXRD and EBSD data, Mineralogical Magazine, 83, 639-644 |
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Belogub E V, Shilovskikh V V, Rassomakhin M A, Plotinskaya O Y, Savichev A N, Filippova K A, Kirichenko S, Spratt J, Seltmann R (2022) Scroll-like and platy molybdenite-3R from the Ufaley metamorphic block, South Urals: EBSD, XRD, SEM, EPMA and ICP-MS study, Mineralogical Magazine, 86, 422-435 |
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Yang Y, He H, Tan W, Tao Q, Yao J, Xian H, Li S, Xi J, Zhu J, Xu H (2022) Incorporation of incompatible trace elements into molybdenite: Layered PbS precipitates within molybdenite, American Mineralogist, 107, 54-64 |
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