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Name: Chabournéite RRUFF ID: R070371 Ideal Chemistry: AgzTl8-x-zPb4+2xSb40-x-yAsyS68 (with 0.00 ≤ x ≤ 0.40, 16.15 ≤ y ≤ 19.11, 0.04 ≤ z ≤ 0.11) Locality: Jas Roux, Pelvoux Mt., Valgaudemar, Hautes-Alpes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France Source: Michael Scott S101941 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Black metallic with conchoidal fracture, associated with yellow-red realgar and deep-red smithite, R070642, (with good cleavage). Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by single crystal X-ray diffraction. |
Mineral Group: [ Chabourneite (3) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Chabournéite samples (2) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R070371.9 | ||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 16.311(3)Å b: 21.817(3)Å c: 8.562(2)Å alpha: 83.76(1)° beta: 88.99(1)° gamma: 75.04(1)° Volume: 2925.9(6)Å3 Crystal System: triclinic |
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REFERENCES for Chabournéite | |
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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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Fleischer M, Chao G Y, Pabst A (1979) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 64, 241-245 [view file] |
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Nagl A (1979) The crystal structure of a thallium sulfosalt, Tl8Pb4Sb21As19S68, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 150, 85-106 [view file] |
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Johan Z, Mantienne J, Picot P (1981) La chabournéite, un nouveau minéral thallifère, Bulletin de Minéralogie, 104, 10-15 [view file] |
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Fleischer M, Cabri L J, Chao G Y, Mandarino J A, Pabst A (1982) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 67, 621-624 [view file] |
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Makovicky E (1985) The building principles and classification of sulphosalts based on the SnS archetype, Fortschritte der Mineralogie, 63, 45-89 |
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Nestola F, Guastoni A, Bindi L, Secco L (2009) Dalnegroite, Tl5-xPb2x(As,Sb)21-xS34, a new thallium sulphosalt from Lengenbach quarry, Binntal, Switzerland, Mineralogical Magazine, 73, 1027-1032 [view file] |
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Orlandi P, Biagioni C, Moelo Y, Bonaccorsi E, Paar W H (2013) Lead-antimony sulfosalts from Tuscany (Italy). XIII. Protochabournéite, ~Tl2Pb(Sb9-8As1-2)Σ10S17, from the Monte Arsiccio mine: occurrence, crystal structure, and relationship with chabournéite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 51, 475-494 [view file] |
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Miyawaki R, Hatert F, Pasero M, Mills S J (2021) IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) Newsletter 63, Mineralogical Magazine, 85, 910-915 [view file] |
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