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Name: Skutterudite RRUFF ID: R050593 Ideal Chemistry: CoAs3 Locality: Bou Azzer, Morocco Source: Marcus Origlieri Owner: RRUFF Description: Gray metallic, massive to coarsely crystalline Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis |
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Mineral Groups: [ Skutterudite (6) ] [ Perovskite (44) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Skutterudite samples (3) ] |
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POWDER DIFFRACTION | ||||||||
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RRUFF ID: | R050593.1 | |||||||
Sample Description: | Powder | |||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 8.2149(4)Å b: 8.2149(4)Å c: 8.2149(4)Å alpha: 90.° beta: 90.° gamma: 90.° Volume: 554.38(8)Å3 Crystal System: cubic |
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REFERENCES for Skutterudite | |
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American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record] |
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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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Breithaupt J F A (1827) Ueber eine neue kies-spezies von skutterud, Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 9, 115-116 [view file] |
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Haidinger W (1845) Zweite Klasse: Geogenide. XIII. Ordnung. Kiese III. Kobaltkies. Skutterudit, in Handbuch der Bestimmenden Mineralogie Bei Braumüller and Seidel Wien 559-562 [view file] |
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Vollhardt G (1888) Versuche über Speiskobalt, Zeitschrift für Krystallographie und Mineralogie, 14, 407-408 [view file] |
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Oftedal I (1926) The crystal structure of skutterudite and related minerals, Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift, 8, 250-257 [view file] |
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Oftedal I (1928) Die Kristallstruktur von Skutterudit und Speiskobalt-Chloanthit, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 66, 517-546 |
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Fleischer M (1943) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 28, 61-64 [view file] |
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Holmes R J (1947) Higher mineral arsenides of cobalt, nickel, and iron, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 58, 299-392 [view file] |
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Fleischer M (1948) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 33, 98-100 [view file] |
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Ventriglia U (1957) Studi strutturali sugli arseniuri di cobalto, Periodico di Mineralogia, 26, 345-383 [view file] |
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Roseboom E H (1962) Skutterudites (Co,Ni,Fe)As3-x: Composition and cell dimensions, American Mineralogist, 47, 310-327 [view file] |
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Klemm D D (1965) Untersuchungen mit der Elektronenmikrosonde über die natürlichen Mischkristallbereiche der Skutterudite, Beiträge zur Mineralogie und Petrographie, 11, 323-333 |
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Radcliffe D (1968) Shorter communications: Structural formula and composition of skutterudite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 9, 559-563 [view file] |
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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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Mandel N, Donohue J (1971) The refinement of the crystal structure of skutterudite, CoAs3, Acta Crystallographica, B27, 2288-2289 |
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Petruk W, Harris D C, Stewart J M (1971) Characteristics of the arsenides, sulpharsenides, and antimonides, The Canadian Mineralogist, 11, 150-186 [view file] |
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Kjekshus A, Rakke T (1974) Compounds with the skutterudite type crystal structure. III. Structural data for arsenides and antimonides, Acta Chemica Scandinavica, A28, 99-103 |
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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] |
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Nolas G S, Slack G A, Caillat T, Meisner G P (1996) Raman scattering study of antimony-based skutterudites, Journal of Applied Physics, 79, 2622-2626 |
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Anno H, Matsubara K, Caillat T, Fleurial J P (2000) Valence-band structure of the skutterudite compounds CoAs3, CoSb3, and RhSb3 studied by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, Physical Review B, 62, 10737-10743 |
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Uher C (2001) Skutterudites: Prospective novel thermoelectrics, Semiconductors and Semimetals, 69, 139-253 |
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Wagner T, Lerenz J (2002) Mineralogy of complex Co-Ni-Bi vein mineralization, Bieber deposit, Spessart, Germany, Mineralogical Magazine, 66, 385-407 [view file] |
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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] |
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He T, Chen J, Rosenfeld H D, Subramanian M A (2006) Thermoelectric properties of indium-filled skutterudites, Chemistry of Materials, 18, 759-762 |
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Peng J, Yang J, Bao S, Chen Y, Zhang T (2006) Study on Raman spectra of CoSb3-based skutterudite compounds, Rare Metal Materials and Engineering, 35, 272-275 [view file] |
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Prytz Ø, Taftø J, Ahn C C, Fultz B (2007) Transition metal d-band occupancy in skutterudites studied by electron energy-loss spectroscopy, Physical Review B, 75, 125109-6 |
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Spiridonov E M, Gritsenko Y D (2007) Ferroskutterudite, nickelskutterudite, and skutterudite from the Norilsk ore field, New Data on Minerals. Moscow, 42, 16-27 [view file] |
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Liang Y, Borrmann H, Baenitz M, Schnelle W, Budnyk S, Zhao J T, Grin Y (2008) SnxPt4SnySb12-y: A skutterudite with covalently bonded filler, Inorganic Chemistry, 47, 9489-8496 |
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Hålenius U, Hatert F, Pasero M, Mills S J (2017) IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) Newsletter 35. New minerals and nomenclature modifications approved in 2016 and 2017, Mineralogical Magazine, 81, 209-213 [view file] |
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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] |
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Mitchell R H, Welch M D, Chakhmouradian A R (2017) Nomenclature of the perovskite supergroup: A hierarchical system of classification based on crystal structure and composition, Mineralogical Magazine, 81, 411-461 [view file] |
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Schumer B N, Andrade M B, Evans S H, Downs R T (2017) A new formula and crystal structure for nickelskutterudite, (Ni,Co,Fe)As3, and occupancy of the icosahedral cation site in the skutterudite group, American Mineralogist, 102, 205-209 [view file] |
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Majzlan J, Kiefer S, Lilova K, Subramani T, Navrotsky A, Tuhý M, Vymazalová A, Chareev D A, Dachs E, Benisek A (2022) Calorimetric study of skutterudite (CoAs2.92) and heazlewoodite (Ni3S2), American Mineralogist, 107, 2219-2225 |
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