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Name: Raspite RRUFF ID: R130514 Ideal Chemistry: Pb(WO4) Locality: Grand Central mine, Tombstone, Arizona, USA Source: Bruce Murphy [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Elongated, prismatic-to-tabular, pale yellow-to-colorless crystals, associated with chlorargyrite, emmonsite, ottoite, quartz, and jarosite. Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis. |
Mineral Group: [ Raspite (3) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Raspite samples (2) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R130514.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 13.621(3)Å b: 5.019(1)Å c: 5.586(1)Å alpha: 90° beta: 107.979(5)° gamma: 90° Volume: 363.2(2)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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REFERENCES for Raspite | |
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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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Hlawatsch C (1897) Ueber den Stolzit und ein neues Mineral »Raspit« von Brokenhill, Annalen des K.K. Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums, 12, 33-41 [view file] |
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Hlawatsch C (1898) Ueber Stolzit und Raspit von Brokenhill, Zeitschrift für Krystallographie und Mineralogie, 29, 130-139 [view file] |
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Fujita T, Kawada I, Kato K (1977) Raspite from Broken Hill, Acta Crystallographica, B33, 162-164 |
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Itoh M, Fujita M (2000) Optical properties of scheelite and raspite PbWO4 crystals, Physical Review B, 62, 12825-12830 |
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Bastians S, Crump G, Griffith W P, Withnall R (2004) Raspite and studtite: Raman spectra of two unique minerals, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 35, 726-731 |
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Andrade M B, Yang H, Downs R T, Jenkins R A, Fay I (2014) Te-rich raspite, Pb(W0.56Te0.44)O4, from Tombstone, Arizona, U.S.A.: The first natural example of Te6+ substitution for W6+, American Mineralogist, 99, 1507-1510 [view file] |
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