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Name: Billingsleyite RRUFF ID: R070350 Ideal Chemistry: Ag7AsS6 Locality: North Lily Mine, East Tintic District, East Tintic Mts, Utah County, Utah, USA Source: Michael Scott S100507 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Steel-grey fine-grained loose aggregates, co-type sample Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis. |
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RRUFF ID: | R070350.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 10.4760(8)Å b: 10.4760(8)Å c: 10.4760(8)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 1149.7(2)Å3 Crystal System: cubic |
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REFERENCES for Billingsleyite | |
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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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Frondel C, Honea R M (1968) Billingsleyite, a new silver sulfosalt, American Mineralogist, 53, 1791-1798 [view file] |
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Blachnik R, Wickel U (1980) Phasenbeziehungen im System Ag-As-S und thermochemisches Verhalten von A7MX6-Verbindungen (M = P, As, Sb; X = S, Se)., Zeitschrift für Naturforschung B Chemical Science, 10, 1268-1271 |
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Bayliss P (1990) Revised unit cell dimensions, space group, and chemical formula of some metallic minerals, The Canadian Mineralogist, 28, 751-755 [view file] |
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Jambor J L, Burke E A J (1991) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 76, 2020-2026 [view file] |
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Pertlik F (1994) Hydrothermal synthesis and crystal structure determination of heptasilver(I)-disulfur-tetrathioarsenate(V), Ag7S2(AsS4), with a survey on thioarsenate anions, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 112, 170-175 |
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Bindi L, Downs R T, Menchetti S (2010) The crystal structure of billingsleyite, Ag7(As,Sb)S6, a sulfosalt containing As5+, The Canadian Mineralogist, 48, 155-162 [view file] |
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Piilonen P C, Rowe R, Poirier G, Tait K T (2011) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 96, 1654-1661 [view file] |
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