Bindheimite R050546
Name: Bindheimite
RRUFF ID: R050546
Ideal Chemistry: Pb2Sb5+2O7
Locality: Arabia District, Pershing County, Nevada, USA
Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 4882 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Yellow-brown coarsely fibrous massive, intimately mixed with mimetite
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis
Mineral Group: [ pyrochlore (28) ]
CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R050546.2
Sample Description: Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry: (Pb1.33Fe0.47Ca0.20)Σ=2(Sb5+1.97As5+0.03)Σ=2O7 ;(darker phase, with trace amounts of Na); (Pb4.07Ca0.92Fe0.01)Σ=5((As2.97Sb0.03)Σ=1O4)3Cl1.00 (lighter phase = mimetite)
Microprobe Data File: [ Download Excel File ]
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
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RRUFF ID: R050546
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 50% of 150mW
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INFRARED SPECTRUM (Attenuated Total Reflectance) 
RRUFF ID: R050546.1
Instrument settings: SensIR Durascope on a Nicolet Magna 860 FTIR
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POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R050546.1
Sample Description: Powder
Cell Refinement Output: a: 10.4424(8)Å    b: 10.4424(8)Å    c: 10.4424(8)Å
alpha: 90°    beta: 90°    gamma: 90°   Volume: 1138.7(3)Å3    Crystal System: cubic
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REFERENCES for Bindheimite

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]

Karsten D L G (1800) Anmerkungen, in Mineralogische Tabellen Heinrich August Rottmann Berlin 77-77   [view file]

Dana J D, Brush G J (1868) 586. Bindheimite, in A System of Mineralogy, Fifth Edition John Wiley and Sons New York 591-591   [view file]

Natta G, Baccaredda M (1933) Tetrossido di antimonio e antimoniati, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 85, 271-296   [view file]

Mason B, Vitaliano C J (1952) The mineralogy of the antimony oxides and antimonates, Mineralogical Magazine, 30, 100-112   [view file]

Gasperin M (1955) Synthèse et identification de deux oxydes doubles de tantale et d'étain, Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences, 240, 2340-2342   [view file]

Welin E (1968) Notes on the mineralogy of Sweden 6. X-ray powder data for minerals from Långban and the related mineral deposits of Central Sweden, Arkiv för Mineralogi och Geologi, 4, 499-541

Christy A G, Gatedal K (2005) Extremely Pb-rich rock-forming silicates including a beryllian scapolite and associated minerals in a skarn from Långban, Värmland, Sweden, Mineralogical Magazine, 69, 995-1018   [view file]

Atencio D, Andrade M B, Christy A G, Gieré R, Kartashov P M (2010) The pyrochlore supergroup of minerals: nomenclature, The Canadian Mineralogist, 48, 673-698   [view file]

Christy A G, Atencio D (2013) Clarification of status of species in the pyrochlore supergroup, Mineralogical Magazine, 77, 13-20   [view file]