Cuprite R140763

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Name: Cuprite
RRUFF ID: R140763
Ideal Chemistry: Cu2O
Locality: Milpillas mine, Municipio de Santa Cruz, Sonora, Mexico
Source: Marcus Origlieri UAMM19820 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Semimetallic deep red, massive
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction.
Mineral Group: [ Not in a structural group (133) ]
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RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
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RRUFF ID: R140763
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 13% of 150mW
POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R140763.1
Sample Description: Powder
Cell Refinement Output: a: 4.26862(4)Å    b: 4.26862(4)Å    c: 4.26862(4)Å
alpha: 90°    beta: 90°    gamma: 90°   Volume: 77.779(2)Å3    Crystal System: cubic
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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Cuprite

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]

Haidinger W (1845) Zweite Klasse: Geogenide. XI. Ordnung. Erze. III. Kupfererz. Cuprit., in Handbuch der Bestimmenden Mineralogie Bei Braumüller and Seidel Wien 546-555   [view file]

Pinsker Z G, Imamov R M (1964) Production and investigation of thin films of Cu2O, Soviet Physics - Crystallography, 9, 334-335   [view file]

Kirfel A, Eichhorn K (1990) Accurate structure analysis with synchrotron radiation. The electron density in Al2O3 and Cu2O, Acta Crystallographica, A46, 271-284

Lippmann T, Schneider J R (2000) Topological analyses of cuprite, Cu2O, using high-energy synchrotron-radiation data, Acta Crystallographica, A56, 575-584

Beccara S, Dalba G, Fornasini P, Grisenti R, Sanson A, Rocca F (2002) Local thermal expansion in a cuprite structure: the case of Ag2O, Physical Review Letters, 89, 025503-4

Shannon R D, Shannon R C, Medenbach O, Fischer R X (2002) Refractive index and dispersion of fluorides and oxides, Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data, 31, 931-970   [view file]

Bowles J F W, Suárez S, Prichard H M, Fisher P C (2018) The mineralogy, geochemistry and genesis of the alluvial platinum-group minerals of the Freetown Layered Complex, Sierra Leone, Mineralogical Magazine, 82, S223-S246

Markl G, Keim M F, Bayerl R (2019) Unusual mineral diversity in hydrothermal vein-type deposit: The Clara mine, SW Germany, as a type example, The Canadian Mineralogist, 57, 427-456