Leadhillite R050642
Name: Leadhillite
RRUFF ID: R050642
Ideal Chemistry: Pb4(SO4)(CO3)2(OH)2
Locality: Mammoth mine, Tiger, Pinal County, Arizona, USA
Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 11090 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Blue hexagonal prisms associated with transparent platy molybdophyllite and susannite
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction.
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RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
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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: R050642.9
Sample Description: Single crystal, powder profile is calculated
Cell Refinement Output: a: 9.03(1)Å    b: 20.82(3)Å    c: 11.54(2)Å
alpha: 90°    beta: 90.01(5)°    gamma: 90°   Volume: 2170(4)Å3    Crystal System: monoclinic
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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Leadhillite

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]

Beudant F S (1832) Leadhillite, plomb carbonaté rhomboédrique, in Traité Élémentaire de Minéralogie, 2nd Edition Paris 366-367   [view file]

Fleischer M (1970) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 55, 1444-1449   [view file]

Haacke D F, Williams P A (1981) Stability of plumbonacrite, Journal of Inorganic and Nuclear Chemistry, 43, 406-406

Giuseppetti G, Mazzi F, Tadini C (1990) The crystal structure of leadhillite: Pb4(SO4)(CO3)2(OH)2, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1990, 255-268

Frost R L, Kloprogge J T, Williams P A (2003) Raman spectroscopy of lead sulphate-carbonate minerals - implications for hydrogen bonding, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 2003, 529-542

Bindi L, Menchetti S (2005) Structural changes accompanying the phase transformation between leadhillite and susannite: a structural study by means of in situ high-temperature single-crystal X-ray diffraction, American Mineralogist, 90, 1641-1647   [view file]

Siidra O, Nekrasova D, Depmeier W, Chukanov N, Zaitsev A, Turner R (2018) Hydrocerussite-related minerals and materials: structural principles, chemical variations and infrared spectroscopy, Acta Crystallographica, B74, 182-195

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