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Name: Talnakhite RRUFF ID: R060389 Ideal Chemistry: Cu9Fe8S16 Locality: Oktyabrskiy mine, Talnakh, Noril'sk Region, Siberia, U.S.S.R. Source: Michael Scott S100088 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Bronze metallic massive, associated with cubanite. We can not tell the difference between them by eye. Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis |
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Mineral Group: [ Chalcopyrite (6) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R060389.1 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Powder, cell parameters are from single crystal | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 10.613(5)Å b: 10.613(5)Å c: 10.613(5)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 1195.6(4)Å3 Crystal System: cubic |
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REFERENCES for Talnakhite | |
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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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Bud'ko I A, Kulagov E A (1968) The new mineral talnakhite, a cubic variety of chalcopyrite, Zapiski Vsesoyuznogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva, 97, issue 1 63-63 [view file] |
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Fleischer M (1970) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 55, 2135-2139 [view file] |
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Fleischer M (1971) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 56, 2156-2159 [view file] |
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Hall S R, Gabe E J (1972) The crystal structure of talnakhite, Cu18Fe16S32, American Mineralogist, 57, 368-380 [view file] |
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Hall S R (1975) Crystal structures of the chalcopyrite series, The Canadian Mineralogist, 13, 168-172 [view file] |
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Putnis A (1978) Talnakhite and mooihoekite: the accessibility of ordered structures in the metal-rich region around chalcopyrite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 16, 23-30 [view file] |
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