Duftite R070474
Name: Duftite
RRUFF ID: R070474
Ideal Chemistry: PbCu(AsO4)(OH)
Locality: Black Pine mine, Phillipsburg, Montana, USA
Source: Bob Jenkins [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Light green to blackish-green psuedo-octahedral crystals associated with acicular malachite and quartz. The cell parameters are small for duftite.
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by single crystal X-ray diffraction.
Mineral Group: [ Adelite (19) ]
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RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
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RRUFF ID: R070474
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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: R070474.9
Sample Description: Single crystal, powder profile is calculated
Cell Refinement Output: a: 7.582(5)Å    b: 9.018(9)Å    c: 5.851(7)Å
alpha: 90°    beta: 90°    gamma: 90°   Volume: 400.0(2)Å3    Crystal System: orthorhombic
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Calculated diffraction file.

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

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REFERENCES for Duftite

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]

Pufahl O (1920) Mitteilungen über Mineralien und Erze von Südwestafrika, besonders solche von Tsumeb, Centralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie, 1920, 289-296   [view file]

Wherry E T, Foshag W F (1921) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 6, 140-141   [view file]

Richmond W E (1940) Crystal chemistry of the phosphates, arsenates and vanadates of the type A2XO4(Z), American Mineralogist, 25, 441-478   [view file]

Guillemin C (1956) Contribution a la minéralogie des arséniates, phosphates et vanadates de cuivre, Bulletin de la Société Française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie, 79, 7-95   [view file]

Fleischer M (1957) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 42, 117-124   [view file]

Jambor J L, Owens D R, Dutrizac J E (1980) Solid solution in the adelite group of arsenates, The Canadian Mineralogist, 18, 191-195   [view file]

Sokolova E V, Egorov-Tismenko Yu K (1982) Study of crystalline structures of rare arsenates: duftite and mimetite, Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta, Geologiya, 37, 50-56

Effenberger H, Pertlik F (1988) Comparison of the homeomorphic crystal structures of Pb(Fe,Mn)(VO4)(OH) = cechite and PbCu(AsO4)(OH) = duftite, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 185, 610-610   [view file]

Kharisun, Taylor M R, Bevan D J M, Pring A (1998) The crystal chemistry of duftite, PbCuAsO4(OH) and the beta-duftite problem, Mineralogical Magazine, 62, 121-130   [view file]

Markl G, Keim M F, Bayerl R (2019) Unusual mineral diversity in hydrothermal vein-type deposit: The Clara mine, SW Germany, as a type example, The Canadian Mineralogist, 57, 427-456