Important Update News

The RRUFF Project is being updated to improve its interface and content. The beta version of the update is accessible to the public at RRUFF.net. New data is only being added to the beta site. Please note that it is in development, and some components are not functional. Existing RRUFF.info links will resolve to the new site after RRUFF.net is officially released.

We are grateful to NASA for the funding of this effort.

Curite R070328

Browse Search Results 
<< Previous |  Back to Search Results |  Next >> 
Record 2 of 3  


Name: Curite
RRUFF ID: R070328
Ideal Chemistry: Pb3+x[(UO2)4O4+x(OH)3-x]2·2H2O
Locality: Kasolo mine, Shinkolobwe, Shaba Zaire
Source: James Shigley [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Orange acicular crystals on a quartz matrix and associated with torbernite
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction.
Quick search: [ All Curite samples (3) ]
CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R070328.2
Sample Description: Microprobe Fragment
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
RRUFF ID:
Sample Description: Unoriented sample
DOWNLOADS:

  To download sample data,
  please select a specific
  orientation angle.
Direction of polarization of laser relative to fiducial mark:
X Min:    X Max:    X Sort:
BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS
RRUFF ID: R070328
Wavelength:
Sample Description: Unoriented sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 30% of 150mW
DOWNLOADS:

Raman Data (RAW) View Graph
RRUFF File
POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R070328.9
Sample Description: Single crystal, powder profile is calculated
Cell Refinement Output: a: 12.581(4)Å    b: 13.036(4)Å    c: 8.397(1)Å
alpha: 90°    beta: 90°    gamma: 90°   Volume: 1377.2(7)Å3    Crystal System: orthorhombic
  File Type Information Close
Calculated diffraction file.

  File Type Information Close
Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

DOWNLOADS:

DIF File
X-ray Data (XY - RAW) View Graph
RRUFF File
X Min:    X Max:    X Sort:
REFERENCES for Curite

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]

Schoep A (1921) La curite, nouveau minéral radioactif, Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences, 173, 1186-1187   [view file]

Wherry E T, Poitevin E (1922) New species, American Mineralogist, 7, 128-129   [view file]

Burns P C, Hill F C (2000) Implications of the synthesis and structure of the Sr analogue of curite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 38, 175-181   [view file]

Li Y, Burns P C (2000) Investigations of crystal-chemical variability in lead uranyl oxide hydrates. I. curite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 38, 727-735   [view file]

Jambor J L, Kovalenker V A, Roberts A C (2001) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 86, 376-379   [view file]

Schindler M, Mandaliev P, Hawthorne F C, Putnis A (2006) Dissolution of uranyl-oxide-hydroxy-hydrate minerals. I. Curite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 44, 415-431   [view file]

Frost R L, Čejka J, Weier M L (2007) Raman spectroscopic study of the uranyl oxyhydroxide hydrates: becquerelite, billietite, curite, schoepite and vandendriesscheite, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 38, 460-466

Ghazisaeed S, Kiefer B, Plášil J (2019) Revealing hydrogen atoms in a highly-absorbing material: an X-ray diffraction study and Torque method calculations for lead-uranyl-oxide mineral curite, RSC Advances, 9, 10058-10063