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Name: Scainiite RRUFF ID: R100085 Ideal Chemistry: Pb14Sb30S54O5 Locality: Dúbrava, Northern Low Tatra Mts, Žilina Region, Slovakia Source: William W Pinch [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Parallel aggregates of metallic gray acicular crystals Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. |
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RRUFF ID: | R100085.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 52.054(4)Å b: 8.1599(7)Å c: 24.309(2)Å alpha: 90° beta: 104.095(4)° gamma: 90° Volume: 10014(2)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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REFERENCES for Scainiite | |
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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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Makovicky E (1985) Cyclically twinned sulphosalt structures and their approximate analogues, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 173, 1-23 [view file] |
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Orlandi P, Moëlo Y, Meerschaut A, Palvadeau P (1999) Lead-antimony sulfosalts from Tuscany (Italy). I. Scainiite, Pb14Sb30S54O5, the first Pb-Sb oxy-sulfosalt, from Buca della Vena mine, European Journal of Mineralogy, 11, 949-954 [view file] |
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Jambor J L, Pertsev N N, Roberts A C (2000) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 85, 1321-1325 [view file] |
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Moelo Y, Meerschaut A, Orlandi P, Palvadeau P (2000) Lead-antimony sulfosalts from Tuscany (Italy): II - Crystal structure of scainiite, Pb14Sb30S54O5, an expanded monoclinic derivative of Ba12Bi24S48 hexagonal sub-type (zinkenite group), European Journal of Mineralogy, 12, 835-846 [view file] |
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