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Name: Ullmannite RRUFF ID: R070541 Ideal Chemistry: NiSbS Locality: Oms, Pyrennes Mountains, Spain Source: James Shigley [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Steel gray massive Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. |
Mineral Group: [ Ullmannite (5) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Ullmannite samples (2) ] |
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POWDER DIFFRACTION | |||||||
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RRUFF ID: | R070541.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 5.932(1)Å b: 5.932(1)Å c: 5.932(1)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 208.84(4)Å3 Crystal System: cubic |
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REFERENCES for Ullmannite | |
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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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Fröbel J (1843) Ordnung: Wahr Pyritoïden. 1. Zunft: Isometrische Pyritoïden. 3. Familie: Pyriteen. 7. Ullmannit (Nickelspiessglanz von Eisern und Freusburg), in Grundzüge eines Systems der Krystallologie Druck und Winterthur Zürich 42-50 [view file] |
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Ramsdell L S (1925) The crystal structure of some metallic sulfides, American Mineralogist, 10, 281-304 [view file] |
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Holseth H, Kjekshus A (1968) Compounds with the marcasite type crystal structure. I. Compositions of the binary pnictides, Acta Chemica Scandinavica, 22, 3273-3283 |
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Nickel E H (1969) The application of ligand-field concepts to an understanding of the structural stabilities and solid-solution limits of sulphides and related minerals, Chemical Geology, 5, 233-241 |
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Petruk W, Harris D C, Stewart J M (1971) Characteristics of the arsenides, sulpharsenides, and antimonides, The Canadian Mineralogist, 11, 150-186 [view file] |
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Bayliss P (1977) Crystal structure refinement of arsenian ullmannite, American Mineralogist, 62, 369-373 [view file] |
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Groves D I, Hall S R (1978) Argentian pentlandite with the parkerite, joseite A and the probable Bi-analogue of ullmannite from Mount Windarra, Western Australia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 16, 1-7 [view file] |
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Pratt J L, Bayliss P (1980) Crystal structure refinement of a cobaltian ullmannite, American Mineralogist, 65, 154-156 [view file] |
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Zakrzewski M A, Burke E A J, Nugteren H W (1980) Cobalt minerals in the Hällefors area, Bergslagen, Sweden: new occurrences of costibite, paracostibite, nisbite and cobaltian ullmannite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 18, 165-171 [view file] |
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Bayliss P (1986) Subdivision of the pyrite group, and a chemical and X-ray-diffraction investigation of ullmannite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 24, 27-33 [view file] |
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Dobbe R T M (1991) Ullmannite, cobaltian ullmannite and willyamite from Tunaberg, Bergslagen, central Sweden, The Canadian Mineralogist, 29, 199-205 [view file] |
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Foecker A J, Jeitschko W (2001) The atomic order of the pnictogen and chalcogen atoms in equiatomic ternary compounds TPnCh (T = Ni, Pd; Pn = P, As, Sb; Ch = S, Se, Te), Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 162, 69-78 |
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