Carpathite R060162
Name: Carpathite
RRUFF ID: R060162
Ideal Chemistry: C24H12
Locality: Picacho mine, San Benito County, California, USA
Source: Marcus Origlieri
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Colorless to pale yellow splintery fractured aggregates associated with cinnabar on quartz
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction.
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CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R060162.2
Sample Description: Microprobe Fragment
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: R060162.9
Sample Description: Single crystal, powder profile is calculated
Cell Refinement Output: a: 16.06(1)Å    b: 4.692(3)Å    c: 10.069(8)Å
alpha: 90°    beta: 110.88(3)°    gamma: 90°   Volume: 709(1)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 Carpathite

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]

Piotrovsky G L (1955) Karpatite - a new organic mineral from Transcarpathia, Mineralogicheskii Sbornik, 9, 120-127   [view file]

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

Fawcett J K, Trotter J (1966) The crystal and molecular structure of coronene, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, A289, 366-376

Fleischer M (1969) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 54, 326-330   [view file]

International Mineralogical Association (1971) International Mineralogical Association: Commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Magazine, 38, 102-105   [view file]

Echigo T, Kimata M, Maruoka T (2007) Crystal-chemical and carbon-isotopic characteristics of karpatite (C24H12) from the Picacho Peak area, San Benito County, California: evidences for the hydrothermal formation, American Mineralogist, 92, 1262-1269   [view file]