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Name: Aikinite RRUFF ID: R100117 Ideal Chemistry: CuPbBiS3 Locality: British Columbia Molybdenum mine, Kitsault, Alice Arm, British Columbia, Canada Source: Robert Woodside [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Metallic black bladed and striated crystals, with tarnished surfaces, associated with quartz and pyrite Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by single crystal X-ray diffraction. |
Mineral Group: [ Meneghinite (7) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R100117.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 11.651(2)Å b: 4.0436(9)Å c: 11.333(2)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 533.9(1)Å3 Crystal System: orthorhombic |
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REFERENCES for Aikinite | |
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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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Chapman E J (1843) Aikenite, in Practical Mineralogy Hippolyte Bailliere, Publisher London 127-127 [view file] |
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Ohmasa M, Nowacki W (1970) A redetermination of the crystal structure of aikinite [BiS2|S|CuIVPbVII], Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 132, 71-86 [view file] |
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Kohatsu I, Wuensch B J (1971) The crystal structure of aikinite, PbCuBiS3, Acta Crystallographica, B27, 1245-1252 [link] |
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Mumme W G, Welin E, Wuensch B J (1976) Crystal chemistry and proposed nomenclature for sulfosalts intermediate in the system bismuthinite-aikinite (Bi2S3-CuPbBiS3), American Mineralogist, 61, 15-20 [view file] |
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Pring A, Hyde B G (1987) Structural disorder in lindströmite: a bismuthinite - aikinite derivative, The Canadian Mineralogist, 25, 393-399 [view file] |
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Pring A (1989) Structural disorder in aikinite and krupkaite, American Mineralogist, 74, 250-255 [view file] |
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Berlepsch P, Makovicky E, Balić-unić T (2001) Crystal chemistry of meneghinite homologues and related sulfosalts, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 2001, 115-135 |
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Ondru P, Veselovský F, Gabaová A, Hlouek J, rein V, Vavrín I, Skála R, Sejkora J, Drábek M (2003) Primary minerals of the Jáchymov ore district, Journal of the Czech Geological Society, 48, 19-147 [view file] |
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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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