R050442 - RRUFF Database: Raman, X-ray, Infrared, and Chemistry

Enargite R050442

Name: Enargite
RRUFF ID: R050442
Ideal Chemistry: Cu₃AsS₄
Locality: Butte, Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 10457 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Black prismatic crystals associated with pyrite
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis

Mineral Groups: [ Enargite (4) ] [ Wurtzite (20) ]

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CHEMISTRY

RRUFF ID:	R050442.2
Sample Description:	Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry:	Cu_2.98As_0.97Sb_0.03S₄
Microprobe Data File:	[ Download Excel File ]

RAMAN SPECTRUM

RRUFF ID:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

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BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS

RRUFF ID:

R050442

Wavelength:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

Instrument settings:

Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 80% of 150mW

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INFRARED SPECTRUM (Attenuated Total Reflectance)

RRUFF ID:

R050442.1

Instrument settings:

SensIR Durascope on a Nicolet Magna 860 FTIR

Resolution:

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POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R050442.1

Sample Description:

Powder

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 7.4183(4)Å b: 6.4276(3)Å c: 6.1528(2)Å
alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 293.38(2)Å³ Crystal System: orthorhombic

File Type Information

Calculated diffraction file.

File Type Information

Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Enargite
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]
Breithaupt J F A, Plattner C F (1850) Enargit, ein neues Mineral aus der Ordnung der Glanze, Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 80, 383-391 [view file]
Pauling L, Weinbaum S (1934) The crystal structure of enargite, Cu₃AsS₄, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 88, 48-53 [view file]
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]
Fleischer M (1968) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 53, 2103-2106 [view file]
Adiwidjaja G, Löhn J (1970) Strukturverfeinerung von Enargit, Cu₃AsS₄, Acta Crystallographica, B26, 1878-1979
Henao J A, Díaz de Delgado G, Delgado J M, Castrillo F J, Odreman O (1994) Single-crystal structure refinement of enargite [Cu₃AsS₄], Materials Research Bulletin, 29, 1121-1127
Pósfai M, Buseck P (1998) Relationships between microstructure and composition in enargite and luzonite, American Mineralogist, 83, 373-382 [view file]
Karanovic L, Cvetkovic L, Poleti D, Balić-Žunić T, Makovicky E (2002) Crystal structure and absolute structure of enargite from Bor (Serbia), Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 2002, 241-253
Kouzmanov K, Ramboz C, Bailly L, Bogdanov K (2004) Genesis of high-sulfidation vinciennite-bearing Cu-As-Sn (±Au) assemblage from the Radka epithermal copper deposit, Bulgaria: evidence from mineralogy and infrared microthermometry of enargite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 42, 1501-1521 [view file]
Pfitzner A, Bernert T (2004) The system Cu₃AsS₄ - Cu₃SbS₄ and investigations on normal tetrahedral structures, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 219, 20-26
Berkh K, Majzlan J, Meima J A, Plášil J, Rammlmair D (2023) The effect of chemical variability and weathering on Raman spectra of enargite and fahlore, European Journal of Mineralogy, 35, 737-754 [view file]

REFERENCES for Enargite

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]

Breithaupt J F A, Plattner C F (1850) Enargit, ein neues Mineral aus der Ordnung der Glanze, Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 80, 383-391 [view file]

Pauling L, Weinbaum S (1934) The crystal structure of enargite, Cu₃AsS₄, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 88, 48-53 [view file]

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]

Fleischer M (1968) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 53, 2103-2106 [view file]

Adiwidjaja G, Löhn J (1970) Strukturverfeinerung von Enargit, Cu₃AsS₄, Acta Crystallographica, B26, 1878-1979

Henao J A, Díaz de Delgado G, Delgado J M, Castrillo F J, Odreman O (1994) Single-crystal structure refinement of enargite [Cu₃AsS₄], Materials Research Bulletin, 29, 1121-1127

Pósfai M, Buseck P (1998) Relationships between microstructure and composition in enargite and luzonite, American Mineralogist, 83, 373-382 [view file]

Karanovic L, Cvetkovic L, Poleti D, Balić-Žunić T, Makovicky E (2002) Crystal structure and absolute structure of enargite from Bor (Serbia), Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 2002, 241-253

Kouzmanov K, Ramboz C, Bailly L, Bogdanov K (2004) Genesis of high-sulfidation vinciennite-bearing Cu-As-Sn (±Au) assemblage from the Radka epithermal copper deposit, Bulgaria: evidence from mineralogy and infrared microthermometry of enargite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 42, 1501-1521 [view file]

Pfitzner A, Bernert T (2004) The system Cu₃AsS₄ - Cu₃SbS₄ and investigations on normal tetrahedral structures, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 219, 20-26

Berkh K, Majzlan J, Meima J A, Plášil J, Rammlmair D (2023) The effect of chemical variability and weathering on Raman spectra of enargite and fahlore, European Journal of Mineralogy, 35, 737-754 [view file]