Cobaltite R070372
Name: Cobaltite
RRUFF ID: R070372
Ideal Chemistry: CoAsS
Locality: Hakansboda, Vastmanland, Sweden
Source: Royal Ontario Museum M11824 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Light grey metallic pyritohedron
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction.
Mineral Group: [ Cobaltite (5) ]
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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: R070372.1
Sample Description: Powder, cell parameters are from single crystal
Cell Refinement Output: a: 5.584(2)Å    b: 5.589(1)Å    c: 5.581(2)Å
alpha: 90°    beta: 90°    gamma: 90°   Volume: 174.18(5)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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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Cobaltite

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]

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Onorato E (1957) X-ray examination of cobaltite, Acta Crystallographica, 10, 764-765

Giese R F, Kerr P F (1965) The crystal structures of ordered and disordered cobaltite, American Mineralogist, 50, 1002-1014   [view file]

Nickel E H (1969) The application of ligand-field concepts to an understanding of the structural stabilities and solid-solution limits of sulphides and related minerals, Chemical Geology, 5, 233-241

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Pauling L (1978) Covalent chemical bonding of transition metals in pyrite, cobaltite, skutterudite, millerite and related minerals, The Canadian Mineralogist, 16, 447-452   [view file]

Fleet M E, Burns P C (1990) Structure and twinning of cobaltite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 28, 719-723   [view file]

Hem S R, Makovicky E, Gervilla F (2001) Compositional trends in Fe, Co, and Ni sulfarsenides and their crystal-chemical implications: results from the Arroyo de la Cueva deposits, Ronda peridotite, southern Spain, The Canadian Mineralogist, 39, 831-853   [view file]

Wagner T, Lerenz J (2002) Mineralogy of complex Co-Ni-Bi vein mineralization, Bieber deposit, Spessart, Germany, Mineralogical Magazine, 66, 385-407   [view file]

Hem S R, Makovicky E (2004) The system Fe-Co-Ni-As-S. II. Phase relations at in the (Fe,Co,Ni)As1.5S0.5 section at 650° and 500°C, The Canadian Mineralogist, 42, 63-86   [view file]

Barkov A Y, Fedortchouk Y, Campbell R A, Halkoaho T A A (2015) Coupled substitutions in PGE-enriched cobaltite: new evidence from the Rio Jacaré layered complex, Bahia state, Brazil, Mineralogical Magazine, 79, 1185-1193

Hazen R M, Hystad G, Golden J J, Hummer D R, Liu C, Downs R T, Morrison S M, Ralph J, Grew E S (2017) Cobalt mineral ecology, American Mineralogist, 102, 108-116   [view file]