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Name: Pääkkönenite RRUFF ID: R090073 Ideal Chemistry: Sb2AsS2 Locality: Damingshan Mountain area, Defeng, Shanglin County, Guangxi Province, China Source: William W. Pinch [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Silvery-gray metallic, elongated but platy, crystals in spherical aggregates associated with dolomite and kermesite Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. |
Mineral Group: [ Stibnite (10) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Pääkkönenite samples (2) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R090073.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 10.788(4)Å b: 3.978(1)Å c: 12.570(4)Å alpha: 90° beta: 115.89(3)° gamma: 90° Volume: 405.2(2)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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REFERENCES for Pääkkönenite | |
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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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Borodaev Y S, Mozgova N N, Ozerova N A, Bortnikov N S, Oivanen P, Iletuinen V (1981) Pääkkonenite, Sb2AsS2, a new mineral from the Seinäjoki ore region in Finland, Zapiski Vsesoyuznogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva, 110, issue 4 480-487 [view file] |
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Fleischer M, Chao G Y, Mandarino J A (1982) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 67, 854-860 [view file] |
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Bonazzi P, Borrini D, Mazzi F, Olmi F (1995) Crystal structure and twinning of Sb2AsS2, the synthetic analogue of pääkkönenite, American Mineralogist, 80, 1054-1058 [view file] |
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