Anilite R060688
Name: Anilite
RRUFF ID: R060688
Ideal Chemistry: Cu7S4
Locality: Horai Halze bei Medenec, Erzgebirge, Czech Republic
Source: Michael Scott S101294 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Black metallic massive; associated with malachite
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis
Mineral Group: [ Digenite (3) ]
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CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R060688.2
Sample Description: Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry: Cu6.96S4.00
Microprobe Data File: [ Download Excel File ]
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample.
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RRUFF ID: R060688
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample.
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW
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POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R060688.9
Sample Description: Powder, using Mo radiation
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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Anilite

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]

Morimoto N, Koto K, Shimazaki Y (1969) Anilite, Cu7S4, a new mineral, American Mineralogist, 54, 1256-1269   [view file]

Koto K, Nobuo M (1970) The crystal structure of anilite, Acta Crystallographica, B26, 915-924   [link]

Morimoto N, Koto K (1970) Phase relations of the Cu-S system at low temperatures: Stability of anilite, American Mineralogist, 55, 106-117   [view file]

Goble R J, Smith D G W (1973) Electron microprobe investigation of copper sulphides in the Precambrian Lewis Series of S.W. Alberta, Canada, The Canadian Mineralogist, 12, 95-103   [view file]

Potter R W II (1977) An electrochemical investigation of the system copper-sulfur, Economic Geology, 72, 1524-1542

Evans H T (1981) Copper coordination in low chalcocite djurleite and other copper-rich sulfides, American Mineralogist, 66, 807-818   [view file]

Goble R J (1981) The leaching of copper from anilite and the production of a metastable copper sulfide structure, The Canadian Mineralogist, 19, 583-591   [view file]

Whiteside L S, Goble R J (1986) Structural and compositional changes in copper sulfides during leaching and dissolution, The Canadian Mineralogist, 24, 247-258   [view file]

Ondruš P, Veselovský F, Gabašová A, Hloušek J, Šrein 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]