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Name: Famatinite RRUFF ID: R110021 Ideal Chemistry: Cu3SbS4 Locality: Mohawk mine, Goldfield, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA Source: William Pinch [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Pinkish grey, metallic massive associated with dark grey metallic massive to granular goldfieldite, R110023 Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis. |
Mineral Groups: [ Stannite (11) ] [ Sphalerite (35) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Famatinite samples (2) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R110021.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 5.345(2)Å b: 5.345(2)Å c: 10.630(6)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 303.7(1)Å3 Crystal System: tetragonal |
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REFERENCES for Famatinite | |
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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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Stelzner A (1873) Mineralogische Beobachtungen im Gebiete der argentinischen Republik, Mineralogische Mittheilungen, 4, 219-254 [view file] |
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Gaines R V (1957) Luzonite, famatinite and some related minerals, American Mineralogist, 42, 766-779 [view file] |
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Alieva A G, Pinsker Z G (1961) An electron diffraction study of Cu3SbS4, Soviet Physics - Crystallography, 6, 161-164 [view file] |
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Lévy C (1967) Contribution a la minéralogie des sulfures de cuivre du type Cu3XS4, Mémoires du Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières, 54, 1-178 [view file] |
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Garin J, Parthé E (1972) The crystal structure of Cu3PSe4 and other ternary normal tetrahedral structure compounds with composition 13564, Acta Crystallographica, B28, 3672-3674 |
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Tatsuka K, Morimoto N (1977) Tetrahedrite stability relations in the Cu-Fe-Sb-S system, American Mineralogist, 62, 1101-1109 [view file] |
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Pfitzner A, Bernert T (2004) The system Cu3AsS4 - Cu3SbS4 and investigations on normal tetrahedral structures, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 219, 20-26 |
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Ramasamy K, Sims H, Butler W H, Gupta A (2014) Selective nanocrystal synthesis and calculated electronic structure of all four phases of copperantimonysulfide, Chemistry of Materials, 26, 2891-2899 |
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