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Name: Boleite RRUFF ID: R130099 Ideal Chemistry: KAg9Pb26Cu24Cl62(OH)48 Locality: Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA Source: Joe Ruiz [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Blue cubes, associated with blue bladed crystals of mammothite R130100, irregular masses of blue diaboleite, colorless cubes of paralaurianite, colorless gypsum in massive cerussite. Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by single crystal X-ray diffraction. |
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RRUFF ID: | R130099.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 15.307(1)Å b: 15.307(1)Å c: 15.307(1)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 3586.6(2)Å3 Crystal System: cubic |
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REFERENCES for Boleite | |
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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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Mallard F E, Cumenge E (1891) Sur une nouvelle espèce minérale, la boléite, Bulletin de la Société Française de Minéralogie, 14, 283-293 [view file] |
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Mallard F E (1893) Sur la boléite, la cumengéite et la percylite, Bulletin de la Société Française de Minéralogie, 16, 184-195 [view file] |
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Lacroix A (1895) Sur quelques minéraux des mines du Boléo (Basse-Californie), Bulletin du Muséum D'Histoire Naturelle, 1, 39-42 [view file] |
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Rouse R C (1973) The crystal structure of boleite - a mineral containing silver atom clusters, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 6, 86-92 |
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Bailey S W (1977) Report of the I.M.A-I.U.Cr. Joint Committee on Nomenclature, American Mineralogist, 62, 411-415 [view file] |
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Cooper M A, Hawthorne F C (2000) Boleite: resolution of the formula, KPb26 Ag9 Cu24 Cl62 (OH)48, The Canadian Mineralogist, 38, 801-808 [view file] |
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Jambor J L, Roberts A C (2001) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 86, 767-770 [view file] |
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Frost R L, Williams P A, Martens W (2003) Raman spectroscopy of the minerals boléite, cumengéite, diaboléite and phosgenite - implications for the analysis of cosmetics of antiquity, Mineralogical Magazine, 67, 103-111 [view file] |
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Frost R L, Williams P A (2004) Raman spectroscopy of some basic chloride containing minerals of lead and copper, Spectrochimica Acta Part A, 60, 2071-2077 |
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