Krupkaite R100098
Name: Krupkaite
RRUFF ID: R100098
Ideal Chemistry: PbCuBi3S6
Locality: Julcani District, Peru
Source: Peter Megaw [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Bladed steel-gray metallic crystals with blue irridescence
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by single crystal X-ray diffraction.
Mineral Group: [ Meneghinite (7) ]
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RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented Raman on the primary sample
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RRUFF ID: R100098
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Sample Description: Unoriented Raman on the primary sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 25% of 150mW
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POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R100098.9
Sample Description: Single crystal, powder profile is calculated
Cell Refinement Output: a: 4.019(1)Å    b: 11.236(2)Å    c: 11.570(4)Å
alpha: 90°    beta: 90°    gamma: 90°   Volume: 522.4(2)Å3    Crystal System: orthorhombic
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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Krupkaite

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]

Synecek V, Hybler J (1974) The crystal structures of krupkaite, CuPbBi3S6, and of gladite, CuPbBi5S9, and the classification of superstructures in the bismuthinite-aikinite group, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1974, 541-560

Zak L, Synecek V, Hybler J (1974) Krupkaite, CuPbBi3S6, a new mineral of the bismuthinite-aikinite group, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1974, 533-541

Fleischer M, Chao G Y, Cabri L J (1975) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 60, 736-739   [view file]

Mumme W G (1975) The crystal structure of krupkaite, CuPbBi3S6, from the Juno mine at Tennant Creek, Northern Territory, Australia, American Mineralogist, 60, 300-308   [view file]

Pring A (1989) Structural disorder in aikinite and krupkaite, American Mineralogist, 74, 250-255   [view file]

Berlepsch P, Makovicky E, Balić-Žunić T (2001) Crystal chemistry of meneghinite homologues and related sulfosalts, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 2001, 115-135

Topa D, Makovicky E, Balić-Zunić T (2002) The structural role of excess Cu and Pb in gladite and krupkaite based on new refinements of their structure, The Canadian Mineralogist, 40, 1147-1159   [view file]

Petrícek V, Makovicky E (2006) Interpretation of selected structures of the bismuthinite — aikinite series as commensurately modulated structures, The Canadian Mineralogist, 44, 189-206   [view file]

Topa D, Petricek V, Dusek M, Makovicky E, Balic-Zunic T (2008) Simultaneous refinement of two components of an exsolution intergrowth: Crystal structures of the lindströmite - krupkaite pair, The Canadian Mineralogist, 46, 525-539   [view file]

Izumino Y, Nakashima K, Nagashima M (2014) Cuprobismutite group minerals (cuprobismutite, hodrušhite, kupčíkite and padĕrite), other Bi-sulfosalts and Bi-tellurides from the Obari mine, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan, Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences, 109, 177-190