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Name: Rasvumite RRUFF ID: R060491 Ideal Chemistry: KFe2S3 Locality: Coyote Peak, Humboldt County, California, USA Source: Michael Scott S100017 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Parallel aggregates of brownish-red fibers, associated with phlogopite, andradite, augite, pyrrhotite, magnetite, sulphur, and apatite. The sample profile under the red laser matches sulphur Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction. |
Mineral Group: [ Cubanite (7) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R060491.9 | |||||||
Sample Description: | Powder, using Mo radiation | |||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 9.08(3)Å b: 11.08(1)Å c: 5.449(2)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 540(2)Å3 Crystal System: orthorhombic |
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REFERENCES for Rasvumite | |
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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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Sokolova M N, Dobrovol'skaya M G, Organova N I, Dmitrik A L (1970) A sulfide of iron and potassium, the new mineral rasvumite, Zapiski Vsesoyuznogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva, 99, issue 6 712-720 [view file] |
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Fleischer M (1971) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 56, 1121-1123 [view file] |
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Fleischer M (1972) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 57, 594-598 [view file] |
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Czamanske G K, Erd R C, Sokolova M N, Dobrovol'skaya M G, Dmitrieva M T (1979) New data on rasvumite and djerfisherite, American Mineralogist, 64, 776-778 [view file] |
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Clark J R, Brown G E (1980) Crystal structure of rasvumite, KFe2S3, American Mineralogist, 65, 477-482 [view file] |
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Mitchell R H, Ross K C, Potter E G (2004) Crystal structures of CsFe2S3 and RbFe2S3: Synthetic analogs of rasvumite KFe2S3, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 177, 1867-1872 |
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Sharygin V V, Kamenetsky V S, Kamenetsky M B (2008) Potassium sulfides in kimberlite-hosted chloride-"neyerereite" and chloride clasts of Udachnaya-East Pipe, Yakutia, Russia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 46, 1079-1095 [view file] |
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