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Name: Gersdorffite RRUFF ID: R070343 Ideal Chemistry: NiAsS Locality: Mitterberg, Salzburg, Austria Source: Michael Scott S103593 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Grey metallic massive associated with quartz and annabergite Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis. |
Mineral Group: [ Ullmannite (5) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Gersdorffite samples (3) ] |
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POWDER DIFFRACTION | |||||||
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RRUFF ID: | R070343.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 5.695(6)Å b: 5.695(6)Å c: 5.695(6)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 184.7(2)Å3 Crystal System: cubic |
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REFERENCES for Gersdorffite | |
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American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record] |
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Haidinger W (1845) Zweite Klasse: Geogenide. XIII. Ordnung. Kiese. III. Kobaltkies. Gersdorffit, in Handbuch der Bestimmenden Mineralogie Bei Braumüller and Seidel Wien 559-562 [view file] |
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Ramsdell L S (1925) The crystal structure of some metallic sulfides, American Mineralogist, 10, 281-304 [view file] |
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Bayliss P, Stephenson N C (1967) The crystal structure of gersdorffite, Mineralogical Magazine, 36, 38-42 [view file] |
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Bayliss P (1968) The crystal structure of disordered gersdorffite, American Mineralogist, 53, 290-293 [view file] |
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Holseth H, Kjekshus A (1968) Compounds with the marcasite type crystal structure. I. Compositions of the binary pnictides, Acta Chemica Scandinavica, 22, 3273-3283 |
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Nickel E H (1969) The application of ligand-field concepts to an understanding of the structural stabilities and solid-solution limits of sulphides and related minerals, Chemical Geology, 5, 233-241 |
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Petruk W, Harris D C, Stewart J M (1971) Characteristics of the arsenides, sulpharsenides, and antimonides, The Canadian Mineralogist, 11, 150-186 [view file] |
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Steger J J, Nahigian H, Arnott R J, Wold A (1974) Preparation and characterization of the solid solution series Co1-x NixAsS (0«x«1), Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 11, 53-59 |
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Bayliss P (1982) A further crystal structure refinement of gersdorffite, American Mineralogist, 67, 1058-1064 [view file] |
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Bayliss P (1986) Subdivision of the pyrite group, and a chemical and X-ray-diffraction investigation of ullmannite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 24, 27-33 [view file] |
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Jambor J L, Roberts A C (1998) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 83, 400-403 [view file] |
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Foecker A J, Jeitschko W (2001) The atomic order of the pnictogen and chalcogen atoms in equiatomic ternary compounds TPnCh (T = Ni, Pd; Pn = P, As, Sb; Ch = S, Se, Te), Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 162, 69-78 |
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Wagner T, Lerenz J (2002) Mineralogy of complex Co-Ni-Bi vein mineralization, Bieber deposit, Spessart, Germany, Mineralogical Magazine, 66, 385-407 [view file] |
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Ondru P, Veselovský F, Gabaová A, Hlouek J, rein V, Vavrín I, Skála R, Sejkora J, Drábek M (2003) Primary minerals of the Jáchymov ore district, Journal of the Czech Geological Society, 48, 19-147 [view file] |
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Hem S R, Makovicky E (2004) The system Fe-Co-Ni-As-S. II. Phase relations at in the (Fe,Co,Ni)As1.5S0.5 section at 650° and 500°C, The Canadian Mineralogist, 42, 63-86 [view file] |
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Fanlo I, Subías I, Gervilla F, Manuel J (2006) Textures and compositional variability in gersdorffite from the Crescencia Ni-(Co-U) showing, central Pyrenees, Spain: primary deposition or re-equilibration?, The Canadian Mineralogist, 44, 1513-1528 [view file] |
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Miyawaki R, Hatert F, Pasero M, Mills S J (2022) IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) Newsletter 69, European Journal of Mineralogy, 34, 463-468 [view file] |
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Hatert F, Mills S J, Pasero M, Miyawaki R, Bosi F (2023) CNMNC guidelines for the nomenclature of polymorphs and polysomes, Mineralogical Magazine, 87, 225-232 |
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