Bismuth R070375
Name: Bismuth
RRUFF ID: R070375
Ideal Chemistry: Bi
Locality: Frontier mine, South Lorrain, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
Source: Royal Ontario Museum M14615 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Silver-white tarnished to grey cleavage fragments
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction.
Mineral Group: [ Arsenic (7) ]
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CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R070375.2
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: R070375.1
Sample Description: Powder
Cell Refinement Output: a: 4.74626(8)Å    b: 4.74626(8)Å    c: 4.74626(8)Å
alpha: 57.240(1)°    beta: 57.240(1)°    gamma: 57.240(1)°   Volume: 70.798(2)Å3    Crystal System: rhombohedral
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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 Bismuth

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]

Agricola G (1530) Bisemutum, in Bermannvs Sive De Re Metallica Froben Basileae 75-76   [view file]

Agricola G (1546) Bisemutum, in Georgii Agricolae Medici Bermannvs, sive de re metallica Papae Leipzig 49-49   [view file]

Agricola G (1556) Bismuth, in De Re Metallica, translated by Hoover H C and Hoover L H 1950 Dover New York 433-433   [view file]

Hoffmann C A S (1789) Mineralsystem des Herrn Inspektor Werners mit dessen Erlaubnis herausgegeben von C A S Hoffmann, Bergmannisches Journal, 1, 369-398   [view file]

Schiferl D, Barrett C S (1969) The crystal structure of arsenic at 4.2, 78 and 299 K, Journal of Applied Crystallography, 2, 30-36   [link]

Miller R (1981) Kawazulite Bi2Te2Se, related bismuth minerals and selenian covellite from the Northwest Territories, The Canadian Mineralogist, 19, 341-348   [view file]

Aoki K, Fujiwara S, Kusakabe M (1982) Stability of the bcc structure of bismuth at high pressure, Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 51, 3826-3830   [link]

Bagieu-Beucher M, Durif A (1987) Preparation and crystal structure of bismuth trisodium trimetaphosphate nonahydrate: BiNa3(P3O9)2·9H2O, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 178, 239-247   [view file]

McMahon M I, Degatyareva O, Nelmes R J (2000) Ba-IV-type incommensurate crystal structure in group-V metals, Physical Review Letters, 85, 4896-4899   [link]

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

Ondruš P, Veselovský F, Gabašová A, Hloušek J, Šrein V, Vavrín I, Skála R, Sejkora J, Drábek M (2003) Primary minerals of the Jáchymov ore district, Journal of the Czech Geological Society, 48, 19-147   [view file]

Degtyareva O (2010) Crystal structure of simple metals at high pressures, High Pressure Research, 30, 343-371

Förster HJ, Bindi L, Stanley C J (2016) Grundmannite, CuBiSe2, the Se-analogue of emplectite, a new mineral from the El Dragón mine, Potosí, Bolivia, European Journal of Mineralogy, 28, 467-477   [view file]