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|   |   | Name: Miargyrite RRUFF ID: R050440 Ideal Chemistry: AgSbS2 Locality: Saint Andreasberg, Harz Mountains, Niedersachsen, Germany Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 1494 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Black prismatic crystals Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis. | 
| Quick search: [ All Miargyrite samples (2) ] | ||
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| RRUFF ID: | R050440.9 | ||||||
| Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
| Cell Refinement Output: | a: 12.872(3)Å    b: 4.404(2)Å    c: 13.214(4)Å alpha: 90° beta: 98.48(2)° gamma: 90° Volume: 740.8(5)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic | ||||||
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| REFERENCES for Miargyrite | |
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| 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] | |
| Rose H (1829) Ueber die in der Natur vorkommenden nicht oxydirten Verbindungen des Antimons und des Arseniks, Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 15, 451-476 [view file] | |
| Knowles C R (1964) A redetermination of the structure of miargyrite, AgSbS2, Acta Crystallographica, 17, 847-851 | |
| Kaspar P, Mrazek Z, Ridkosil T (1983) Andorite, fizelyite and miargyrite: a decomposition of a natural solid solution?, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Abhandlungen, 147, 47-57 | |
| Smith J V, Pluth J J, Han S (1997) Crystal structure refinement of miargyrite AgSbS2, Mineralogical Magazine, 61, 671-675 [view file] | |
| Jambor J L, Puziewicz J, Roberts A C (1998) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 83, 652-656 [view file] | |
| Effenberger H, Paar W H, Topa D, Criddle A J, Fleck M (2002) The new mineral baumstarkite and a structural reinvestigation of aramayoite and miargyrite, American Mineralogist, 87, 753-764 [view file] | |
| Ondru P, Veselovský F, Gabaová A, Hlouek J, rein 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] | |
| Kolitsch U, Rieck B, Brandstätter F, Schreiber F, Fabritz K, Blaß G, Gröbner J (2014) Neufunde aus dem alten Bergbau und den Schlacken von Lavrion (I), Mineralien Welt, 1, 60-75 | |
| Gill S B, Piercey S J, Layton-Matthews D (2016) Mineralogy and metal zoning of the Cambrian Zn-Pb-Cu-Ag-Au Lemarchant volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) deposit, Newfoundland, The Canadian Mineralogist, 54, 1307-1344 | |
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