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Name: Gillulyite RRUFF ID: R070433 Ideal Chemistry: Tl2As7.5Sb0.3S13 Locality: Mercur Gold mine, Mercur District (Camp Floyd District), Oquirrh Mountains, Tooele County, Utah, USA Source: Michael Scott S104722 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Aggregate of vitreous dark red platy crystals associated with colorless barite and calcite Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. |
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RRUFF ID: | R070433.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 9.576(3)Å b: 5.675(2)Å c: 21.486(7)Å alpha: 90° beta: 100.08(1)° gamma: 90° Volume: 1149(1)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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REFERENCES for Gillulyite | |
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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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Wilson J R, Robinson P D, Wilson P N, Stanger L W, Salmon G L (1991) Gillulyite, Tl2(As,Sb)8S13, a new thallium arsenic sulfosalt from the Mercur gold deposit, Utah, American Mineralogist, 76, 653-656 [view file] |
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Wilson J R, Sen Gupta P K, Robinson P D, Criddle A J (1993) Fangite, Tl3AsS4, a new thallium arsenic sulfosalt from the Mercur Au deposit, Utah, and revised optical data for gillulyite, American Mineralogist, 78, 1096-1103 [view file] |
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Foit F F, Robinson P D, Wilson J R (1995) The crystal structure of gillulyite, Tl2(As,Sb)8S13, from the Mercur gold deposit, Tooele County, Utah, U.S.A., American Mineralogist, 80, 394-399 [view file] |
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Makovicky E, Balić-unić T (1999) Gillulyite Tl2(As,Sb)8S13: Reinterpretation of the crystal structure and order-disorder phenomena, American Mineralogist, 84, 400-406 [view file] |
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