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Cervantite R060667

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Name: Cervantite
RRUFF ID: R060667
Ideal Chemistry: Sb3+Sb5+O4
Locality: Touliac, Cantal, France
Source: Michael Scott S101322 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Tan colored massive, spongelike, associated with quartz and romeite
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction.
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CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R060667.2
Sample Description: Microprobe Fragment
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented yellow crystals
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RRUFF ID: R060667
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Sample Description: Unoriented yellow crystals
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW
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POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R060667.1
Sample Description: Powder, with romeite and quartz
Cell Refinement Output: a: 5.443(2)Å    b: 4.821(1)Å    c: 11.794(3)Å
alpha: 90°    beta: 90°    gamma: 90°   Volume: 309.5(1)Å3    Crystal System: orthorhombic
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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 Cervantite

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]

Dana J D (1850) Cervantite, in A System of Mineralogy, Third Edition George P Putnam New York and London 417-417   [view file]

Dihlström K (1938) Über den bau des wahren antimontetroxyds und des damit isomorphen stibiotantalits, SbTaO4, Zeitschrift für Anorganische und Allgemeine Chemie, 239, 57-64   [view file]

Fleischer M (1962) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 47, 1216-1223   [view file]

Gopalakrishnan P S, Manohar H (1975) Cervantite, α-Sb2O4, Crystal Structure Communications, 4, 203-206

Thornton G (1977) A neutron diffraction study of α-Sb2O4, Acta Crystallographica, B33, 1271-1273

Amador J, Gutierrez-Puebla E, Monge M A, Rasines I, Ruiz-Valero C (1988) Diantimony tetraoxides revisited, Inorganic Chemistry, 27, 1367-1370

Garcia-Guinea J, Gervilla F, Garrido F, Correcher V, Marco J F, Tormo L (2023) A re-investigation on the historical cervantite-type antimony ochres, Estudios Geológicos, 79, e150   [view file]