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Name: Kobellite RRUFF ID: R110092 Ideal Chemistry: Pb11(Cu,Fe)2(Bi,Sb)15S35 Locality: Crabtree quarry, Wake County, North Carolina, USA Source: Mark Feinglos [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Dark grey metallic massive, associated with quartz Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis. |
Mineral Group: [ Kobellite (9) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Kobellite samples (2) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R110092.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 34.151(1)Å b: 22.6256(7)Å c: 4.0273(1)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90.393(2)° gamma: 90° Volume: 3111.7(2)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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REFERENCES for Kobellite | |
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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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Setterberg J (1841) Undersökning af ett nytt mineral, funnet uti Hvena Kobolt-grufvor uti Nerike, Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar, 1841, 188-193 [view file] |
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Rammelsberg C F (1875) Kobellit, Handbuch der Mineralchemie, 2, 100-101 [view file] |
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Keller H F (1890) Ueber Kobellit von Ouray, Colorado, und über die chemische Zusammensetzung dieser Species, Zeitschrift für Krystallographie und Mineralogie, 17, 67-72 [view file] |
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Nuffield E W (1948) Observations on kobellite, University of Toronto Studies: VI. Geological Series, 52, 86-89 [view file] |
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Harris D C, Jambor J L, Lachance G R, Thorpe R I (1966) Abstract of paper presented at the eleventh meeting: New observations on kobellite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 8, 667-667 [view file] |
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Harris D C, Jambor J L, Lachance G R, Thorpe R I (1968) Tintinaite, the antimony analogue of kobellite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 9, 371-382 [view file] |
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Fleischer M (1969) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 54, 573-580 [view file] |
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Miehe G (1971) Crystal structure of kobellite, Nature Physical Science, 231, 133-134 |
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Zakrzewski M A, Makovicky E (1986) Izoklakeite from Vena, Sweden, and the kobellite homologous series, The Canadian Mineralogist, 24, 7-18 [view file] |
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Moëlo Y, Roger G, Maurel-Palacin D, Marcoux E, Laroussi A (1995) Chemistry of some Pb-(Cu,Fe)-(Sb,Bi) sulfosalts from France and Portugal. Implications for the crystal chemistry of lead sulfosalts in the Cu-poor part of the Pb2S2-Cu2S-Sb2S3-Bi2S3 system, Mineralogy and Petrology, 53, 229-250 |
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Mumme W G, Gable R W, Wilson N (2013) A crystal structure determination of (selenian) kobellite from the Boliden Mine, Sweden, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Abhandlungen, 191, 109-115 |
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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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