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Name: Stromeyerite RRUFF ID: R060909 Ideal Chemistry: CuAgS Locality: Gowganda, Ontario, Canada Source: Royal Ontario Museum M16326 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Grey, metallic, pseudohexagonal flakes, conchoidal fracture Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis |
Quick search: [ All Stromeyerite samples (2) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R060909.1 | |||||||
Sample Description: | Powder | |||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 4.0660(3)Å b: 6.6315(5)Å c: 7.9796(5)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 215.16(2)Å3 Crystal System: orthorhombic |
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REFERENCES for Stromeyerite | |
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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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Beudant F S (1832) Stromeÿerine, sulfure dargent et cuivre, in Traité Élémentaire de Minéralogie, 2nd Edition Paris 410-411 [view file] |
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Frueh A J (1955) The crystal structure of stromeyerite, AgCuS : A possible defect structure, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 106, 299-307 [view file] |
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Djurle S (1958) An X-ray study on the system Ag-Cu-S, Acta Chemica Scandinavica, 12, 1427-1436 |
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Baker C L, Lincoln F J, Johnson A W S (1991) A low-temperature structural phase transformation in CuAgS, Acta Crystallographica, B47, 891-899 |
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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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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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