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|   |   | Name: Tellurobismuthite RRUFF ID: R060948 Ideal Chemistry: Bi2Te3 Locality: Little Ben mine, Matheson, Ontario, Canada Source: Bob Jenkins [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Metallic steel-gray crystals on quartz Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis. | 
| Mineral Group: [ Tetradymite (8) ] | ||
| Quick search: [ All Tellurobismuthite samples (2) ] | ||
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| RRUFF ID: | R060948.9 | ||||||
| Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
| Cell Refinement Output: | a: 4.406(2)Å    b: 4.406(2)Å    c: 30.36(3)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 120° Volume: 510.9(2)Å3 Crystal System: hexagonal | ||||||
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| REFERENCES for Tellurobismuthite | |
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| 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] | |
| Balch D M, Jackson C T (1863) On tellurbismuth from Dahlonega, Georgia, American Journal of Science and Arts, 85, 99-101 [view file] | |
| Lange P W (1939) Ein vergleich zwischen Bi2Te3 und Bi2Te2S, Naturwissenschaften, 27, 133-134 [view file] | |
| Frondel C (1940) Proceedings of annual meeting: redefinition of tellurobismuthite, American Mineralogist, 25, 208-208 [view file] | |
| Fleischer M (1941) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 26, 293-294 [view file] | |
| Fleischer M (1963) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 48, 433-437 [view file] | |
| Nakajima S (1963) The crystal structure of Bi2Te3-xSex, Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, 24, 479-485 | |
| Atabaeva E Y, Ickevich E S, Mashkov S A, Popova S V, Vereshchagin L F (1968) The polymorphism of bismuth telluride under high pressures and temperatures, Fizika Tverdogo Tela, 10, 62-65 | |
| Feutelais Y, Legendre B, Rodier N, Agafonov V (1993) A study of the phases in the bismuth - tellurium system, Materials Research Bulletin, 28, 591-596 | |
| Cook N J, Ciobanu C L, Stanley C J, Paar W H, Sunblad K (2007) Compositional data for BiPb tellurosulfides, The Canadian Mineralogist, 45, 417-435 [view file] | |
| Cook N J, Ciobanu C L, Wagner T, Stanley C J (2007) Minerals of the system Bi-Te-Se-S related to the tetradymite archetype: review of the classification and compositional varation, The Canadian Mineralogist, 45, 665-708 [view file] | |
| Ciobanu C L, Pring A, Cook N J, Self P, Jefferson D, Dima G I, Melnikov V (2009) Chemical-structural modularity in the tetradymite group: A HRTEM study, American Mineralogist, 94, 517-534 [view file] | |
| Izumino Y, Nakashima K, Nagashima M (2014) Cuprobismutite group minerals (cuprobismutite, hodrušhite, kupčíkite and padĕrite), other Bi-sulfosalts and Bi-tellurides from the Obari mine, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan, Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences, 109, 177-190 | |
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