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Name: Rickardite RRUFF ID: R140500 Ideal Chemistry: Cu3-xTe2 Locality: 600' Level, Good Hope mine, Vulcan, Vulcan District, Gunnison County, Colorado, USA Source: Rock Currier [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Rich, dark purple metallic plates with silvery gray bright metallic tellurium and very sparse tiny specs of metallic blue weissite on gray matrix. Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by single crystal X-ray diffraction. |
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RRUFF ID: | R140500.9 | ||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||
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a: 4.0000(38)Å b: 4.0000(38)Å c: 6.1720(78)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 98.750(14)Å3 Crystal System: tetragonal |
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REFERENCES for Rickardite | |
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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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Ford W E (1903) Rickardit, ein neues Mineral, Zeitschrift für Krystallographie und Mineralogie, 37, 609-610 [view file] |
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Ford W E (1903) Rickardite, a new mineral, American Journal of Science, 165, 69-70 [view file] |
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Forman S A, Peacock M A (1949) Crystal structure of rickardite, Cu4-xTe2, American Mineralogist, 34, 441-451 [view file] |
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Thompson R M (1949) The telluride minerals and their occurrence in Canada, American Mineralogist, 34, 342-382 [view file] |
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Baranova R V, Pinsker Z G (1969) The question of disorder in the tetragonal phase Cu4-xTe2, Soviet Physics - Crystallography, 14, 214-217 [view file] |
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Schutte W J, de Boer J L (1993) Determination of the incommensurately modulated structure of Cu3-xTe2, Acta Crystallographica, B49, 398-403 |
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