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Pentlandite R060144

Name: Pentlandite
RRUFF ID: R060144
Ideal Chemistry: (Ni,Fe)₉S₈
Locality: Worthington, Ontario, Canada
Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 5840
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Bronze-white metallic massive
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis

Mineral Group: [ Pentlandite (1) ]

CHEMISTRY

RRUFF ID:	R060144.2
Sample Description:	Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry:	(Fe_4.80Ni_4.12Co_0.08)_Σ=9S₈

RAMAN SPECTRUM

RRUFF ID:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

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BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS

RRUFF ID:

R060144

Wavelength:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

Instrument settings:

Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW

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POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R060144.1

Sample Description:

Powder

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 10.0440(1)Å b: 10.0440(1)Å c: 10.0440(1)Å
alpha: 90.° beta: 90.° gamma: 90.° Volume: 1013.28(3)Å³ Crystal System: cubic

File Type Information

Calculated diffraction file.

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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Pentlandite
American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record]
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]
Dufrénoy A (1856) Pentlandite, in Traité de Minéralogie, Volume 2 Victor Dalmont Paris 549-553 [view file]
Petterd W F (1910) 236. Pentlandite (sulphide of iron and nickel) - heazlewoodite, in Catalogue of the Minerals of Tasmania Mines Department Tasmania 134-135 [view file]
Alsén N (1925) Röntgenographische Untersuchung der Kristallstrukturen von Magnetkies, Breithauptit, Pentlandit, Millerit und verwandten Verbindungen, Geologiska Föreningens i Stockholm Förhandlingar, 47, 19-72 [view file]
Lundqvist D (1947) X-ray studies on the binary system Ni-S, Arkiv för Kemi, Mineralogi och Geologi, 24A, issue 21 1-12
Kouva O, Huhma M, Vuorelainen Y (1959) A natural cobalt analog of pentlandite, American Mineralogist, 44, 897-900 [view file]
Kullerud G (1963) Thermal stability of pentlandite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 7, 353-366 [view file]
Harris D C, Nickel E H (1972) Pentlandite compositions and associations in some mineral deposits, The Canadian Mineralogist, 11, 861-878 [view file]
Hall S R, Stewart J M (1973) The crystal structure of argentian pentlandite (Fe,Ni)₈AgS₈, compared with the refined structure of pentlandite (Fe,Ni)₉S₈, The Canadian Mineralogist, 12, 169-177 [view file]
Misra K C, Fleet M E (1973) The chemical compositions of synthetic and natural pentlandite assemblages, Economic Geology, 68, 518-539 [view file]
Rajamani V, Prewitt C T (1973) Crystal chemistry of natural pentlandites, The Canadian Mineralogist, 12, 178-187 [view file]
Scott S D, Gasparrini E (1973) Argentian pentlandite, (Fe,Ni)₈AgS₈, from Bird River, Manitoba, The Canadian Mineralogist, 12, 165-168 [view file]
Ramsden A R (1975) Compositions of coexisting pyrrhotites, pentlandites and pyrites at Spargoville, western Australia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 13, 133-137 [view file]
Mandziuk Z L, Scott S D (1977) Synthesis, stability, and phase relations of argentian pentlandite in the system Ag-Fe-Ni-S, The Canadian Mineralogist, 15, 349-364 [view file]
Riley J F (1977) The pentlandite group (Fe,Ni,Co)₉S₈: New data and an appraisal of structure-composition relationships, Mineralogical Magazine, 41, 345-349 [view file]
Groves D I, Hall S R (1978) Argentian pentlandite with the parkerite, joseite A and the probable Bi-analogue of ullmannite from Mount Windarra, Western Australia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 16, 1-7 [view file]
Evans H T, Clark J R (1981) The crystal structure of bartonite, a potassium iron sulfide, and its relationship to pentlandite and djerfisherite, American Mineralogist, 66, 376-384 [view file]
Merkle R K W, Von Gruenewaldt G (1986) Compositional variation of Co-rich pentlandite: relation to the evolution of the upper zone of the western Bushveld Complex, South Africa, The Canadian Mineralogist, 24, 529-546 [view file]
Richarson S, Vaughan D J (1989) Surface alteration of pentlandite and spectroscopic evidence for secondary violarite formation, Mineralogical Magazine, 53, 213-222 [view file]
Chai G, Naldrett A J, Rucklidge J C, Kilius L R (1993) In situ quantitative analyses for PGE and Au in sulfide minerals of the Jinchuan Ni-Cu deposit by accelerator mass spectrometry, The Canadian Mineralogist, 31, 19-30 [view file]
Hem S R, Makovicky E, Gervilla F (2001) Compositional trends in Fe, Co, and Ni sulfarsenides and their crystal-chemical implications: results from the Arroyo de la Cueva deposits, Ronda peridotite, southern Spain, The Canadian Mineralogist, 39, 831-853 [view file]
Farrell S P, Fleet M E (2002) Phase separation in (Fe,Co)_1-xS monosulfide solid-solution below 450°C, with consequences for coexisting pyrrhotite and pentlandite in magmatic sulfide deposits, The Canadian Mineralogist, 40, 33-46 [view file]
Mozgova N N, Fardoost F, Borodaev Y S, Trubkin N V (2005) Pentlandite from black smokers in hydrothermal fields «Rainbow» and «Logachev» (isomorphism and non-stoichiometry), Zapiski Rossiiskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchetstva, 134, issue 1 69-81 [view file]
Tenailleau C, Etschmann B, Ibberson R M, Pring A (2006) A neutron powder diffraction study of Fe and Ni distributions in synthetic pentlandite and violarite using ⁶⁰Ni isotope, American Mineralogist, 91, 1442-1447 [view file]
Tenailleau C, Pring A, Etschmann B, Brugger J, Grguric B, Putnis A (2006) Transformation of pentlandite to violarite under mild hydrothermal conditions, American Mineralogist, 91, 706-709 [view file]
Barkov A Y, Shvedov G I, Nikiforov A A, Martin R F (2019) Platinum-group minerals from Seyba, Eastern Sayans, Russia, and substitutions in the PGE-rich pentlandite and ferhodsite series, Mineralogical Magazine, 83, 531-538
Staude S, Scharrer M, Markl G, Simon I, Pfaff K, Monecke T, Blanc P (2023) Hydrothermal pentlandite (Ni,Fe)₉S₈ from Kambalda, Western Australia: Occurrences, formation conditions, and association with orogenic gold, The Canadian Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology, 61, 239-271

REFERENCES for Pentlandite

American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record]

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]

Dufrénoy A (1856) Pentlandite, in Traité de Minéralogie, Volume 2 Victor Dalmont Paris 549-553 [view file]

Petterd W F (1910) 236. Pentlandite (sulphide of iron and nickel) - heazlewoodite, in Catalogue of the Minerals of Tasmania Mines Department Tasmania 134-135 [view file]

Alsén N (1925) Röntgenographische Untersuchung der Kristallstrukturen von Magnetkies, Breithauptit, Pentlandit, Millerit und verwandten Verbindungen, Geologiska Föreningens i Stockholm Förhandlingar, 47, 19-72 [view file]

Lundqvist D (1947) X-ray studies on the binary system Ni-S, Arkiv för Kemi, Mineralogi och Geologi, 24A, issue 21 1-12

Kouva O, Huhma M, Vuorelainen Y (1959) A natural cobalt analog of pentlandite, American Mineralogist, 44, 897-900 [view file]

Kullerud G (1963) Thermal stability of pentlandite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 7, 353-366 [view file]

Harris D C, Nickel E H (1972) Pentlandite compositions and associations in some mineral deposits, The Canadian Mineralogist, 11, 861-878 [view file]

Hall S R, Stewart J M (1973) The crystal structure of argentian pentlandite (Fe,Ni)₈AgS₈, compared with the refined structure of pentlandite (Fe,Ni)₉S₈, The Canadian Mineralogist, 12, 169-177 [view file]

Misra K C, Fleet M E (1973) The chemical compositions of synthetic and natural pentlandite assemblages, Economic Geology, 68, 518-539 [view file]

Rajamani V, Prewitt C T (1973) Crystal chemistry of natural pentlandites, The Canadian Mineralogist, 12, 178-187 [view file]

Scott S D, Gasparrini E (1973) Argentian pentlandite, (Fe,Ni)₈AgS₈, from Bird River, Manitoba, The Canadian Mineralogist, 12, 165-168 [view file]

Ramsden A R (1975) Compositions of coexisting pyrrhotites, pentlandites and pyrites at Spargoville, western Australia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 13, 133-137 [view file]

Mandziuk Z L, Scott S D (1977) Synthesis, stability, and phase relations of argentian pentlandite in the system Ag-Fe-Ni-S, The Canadian Mineralogist, 15, 349-364 [view file]

Riley J F (1977) The pentlandite group (Fe,Ni,Co)₉S₈: New data and an appraisal of structure-composition relationships, Mineralogical Magazine, 41, 345-349 [view file]

Groves D I, Hall S R (1978) Argentian pentlandite with the parkerite, joseite A and the probable Bi-analogue of ullmannite from Mount Windarra, Western Australia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 16, 1-7 [view file]

Evans H T, Clark J R (1981) The crystal structure of bartonite, a potassium iron sulfide, and its relationship to pentlandite and djerfisherite, American Mineralogist, 66, 376-384 [view file]

Merkle R K W, Von Gruenewaldt G (1986) Compositional variation of Co-rich pentlandite: relation to the evolution of the upper zone of the western Bushveld Complex, South Africa, The Canadian Mineralogist, 24, 529-546 [view file]

Richarson S, Vaughan D J (1989) Surface alteration of pentlandite and spectroscopic evidence for secondary violarite formation, Mineralogical Magazine, 53, 213-222 [view file]

Chai G, Naldrett A J, Rucklidge J C, Kilius L R (1993) In situ quantitative analyses for PGE and Au in sulfide minerals of the Jinchuan Ni-Cu deposit by accelerator mass spectrometry, The Canadian Mineralogist, 31, 19-30 [view file]

Hem S R, Makovicky E, Gervilla F (2001) Compositional trends in Fe, Co, and Ni sulfarsenides and their crystal-chemical implications: results from the Arroyo de la Cueva deposits, Ronda peridotite, southern Spain, The Canadian Mineralogist, 39, 831-853 [view file]

Farrell S P, Fleet M E (2002) Phase separation in (Fe,Co)_1-xS monosulfide solid-solution below 450°C, with consequences for coexisting pyrrhotite and pentlandite in magmatic sulfide deposits, The Canadian Mineralogist, 40, 33-46 [view file]

Mozgova N N, Fardoost F, Borodaev Y S, Trubkin N V (2005) Pentlandite from black smokers in hydrothermal fields «Rainbow» and «Logachev» (isomorphism and non-stoichiometry), Zapiski Rossiiskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchetstva, 134, issue 1 69-81 [view file]

Tenailleau C, Etschmann B, Ibberson R M, Pring A (2006) A neutron powder diffraction study of Fe and Ni distributions in synthetic pentlandite and violarite using ⁶⁰Ni isotope, American Mineralogist, 91, 1442-1447 [view file]

Tenailleau C, Pring A, Etschmann B, Brugger J, Grguric B, Putnis A (2006) Transformation of pentlandite to violarite under mild hydrothermal conditions, American Mineralogist, 91, 706-709 [view file]

Barkov A Y, Shvedov G I, Nikiforov A A, Martin R F (2019) Platinum-group minerals from Seyba, Eastern Sayans, Russia, and substitutions in the PGE-rich pentlandite and ferhodsite series, Mineralogical Magazine, 83, 531-538

Staude S, Scharrer M, Markl G, Simon I, Pfaff K, Monecke T, Blanc P (2023) Hydrothermal pentlandite (Ni,Fe)₉S₈ from Kambalda, Western Australia: Occurrences, formation conditions, and association with orogenic gold, The Canadian Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology, 61, 239-271