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Name: Argentobaumhauerite RRUFF ID: R070167 Ideal Chemistry: Ag1.5Pb22As33.5S72 Locality: Cerro de Pasco, Alcides Carrión Province, Pasco department, Peru Source: Michael Scott S103086 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Silver metallic mass of spheroids Status: The identification of this mineral is not yet confirmed. |
Mineral Group: [ Sartorite (5) ] |
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REFERENCES for Argentobaumhauerite | |
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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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Pring A, Birch W D, Sewell D, Graeser S, Edenharter A, Criddle A (1990) Baumhauerite-2a: A silver-bearing mineral with a baumhauerite-like supercell from Lengenbach, Switzerland, American Mineralogist, 75, 915-922 [view file] |
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Pring A, Graeser S (1994) Polytipism in baumhauerite, American Mineralogist, 79, 302-307 |
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Pring A (2001) The crystal chemistry of the sartorite group minerals from Lengenbach, Binntal, Switzerland - a HRTEM study, Schweizerische Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen, 81, 69-87 |
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Roth P (2007) Baumhauerite-2a, in Minerals first discovered in Switzerland and minerals named after Swiss individuals Kristallografik Verlag Achberg Germany 40-41 |
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Hålenius U, Hatert F, Pasero M, Mills S J (2015) IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) Newsletter 25. New minerals and nomenclature modifications approved in 2015, Mineralogical Magazine, 79, 529-535 [view file] |
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Topa D, Makovicky E (2016) Argentobaumhauerite: name, chemistry, crystal structure, comparison with baumhauerite, and position in the Lengenbach mineralization sequence, Mineralogical Magazine, 80, 819-840 [view file] |
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