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Name: Pyromorphite RRUFF ID: R050015 Ideal Chemistry: Pb5(PO4)3Cl Locality: Bunker Hill mine, Shoshone County, Idaho, USA Source: Eugene Schlepp Owner: RRUFF Description: Yellowish green prismatic hexagonal single crystals Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis |
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Mineral Group: [ Apatite (56) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Pyromorphite samples (4) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R050015.1 | |||||||
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a: 10.0268(3)Å b: 10.0268(3)Å c: 7.3607(3)Å alpha: 90.° beta: 90.° gamma: 120.° Volume: 640.89(4)Å3 Crystal System: hexagonal |
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REFERENCES for Pyromorphite | |
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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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Hausmann J F L (1813) Polychrom. 1. Pyromorphit, in Handbuch der Mineralogie Göttingen 1090-1096 [view file] |
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Shannon E V (1917) Crystals of pyromorphite, American Journal of Science, 43, 325-327 [view file] |
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Dai Y, Hughes J M (1989) Crystal-structure refinements of vanadinite and pyromorphite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 27, 189-192 [view file] |
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Hashimoto H, Matsumoto T (1998) Structure refinements of two natural pyromorphites, Pb5(PO4)3Cl, and crystal chemistry of chlorapatite group, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 213, 585-590 |
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Shannon R D, Shannon R C, Medenbach O, Fischer R X (2002) Refractive index and dispersion of fluorides and oxides, Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data, 31, 931-970 [view file] |
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Frost R L, Crane M, Williams P A, Kloprogge J T (2003) Isomorphic substitution in vanadinite [Pb5(VO4)3Cl] - a Raman spectroscopic study, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 34, 214-220 |
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Pláil J, Sejkora J, Čejka J, koda R, Goliá V (2009) Supergene mineralization of the Medvedín uranium deposit, Krkonoe Mountains, Czech Republic, Journal of Geosciences, 54, 15-56 |
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Flis J, Manecki M, Bajda T (2011) Solubility of pyromorphite Pb5(PO4)3Cl - mimetite Pb5(AsO4)3Cl solid solution series, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 75, 1858-1868 |
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Mills S J, Ferraris G, Kampf A R, Favreau G (2012) Twinning in pyromorphite: The first documented occurrence of twinning by merohedry in the apatite supergroup, American Mineralogist, 97, 415-418 [view file] |
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Okudera H (2013) Relationships among channel typology and atomic displacements in the structures of Pb5(BO4)3Cl with B = P (pyromorphite), V (vanadinite), and As (mimetite), American Mineralogist, 98, 1573-1579 |
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Baikie R, Schreyer M, Wei F, Herrin J S, Ferraris C, Brink F, Topolska J, Piltz R O, Price J, White T J (2014) The influence of stereochemically active lone-pair electrons on crystal symmetry and twist angles in lead apatite-2H type structures, Mineralogical Magazine, 78, 325-345 |
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Kolitsch U, Rieck B, Brandstätter F, Schreiber F, Fabritz K, Blaß G, Gröbner J (2014) Neufunde aus dem alten Bergbau und den Schlacken von Lavrion (I), Mineralien Welt, 1, 60-75 |
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Markl G, Marks M A W, Holzäpfel J, Wenzel T (2014) Major, minor, and trace element composition of pyromorphite-group minerals as recorder of supergene weathering processes from the Schwarzwald mining district, SW Germany, American Mineralogist, 99, 1133-1146 |
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Kei M F, Markl G (2015) Weathering of galena: mineralogical processes, hydrogeochemical fluid path modeling, and estimation of the growth rate of pyromorphite, American Mineralogist, 100, 1584-1594 |
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Epp T, Marks M A W, Ludwig T, Kendrick M A, Eby N, Neidhardt H, Oelmann Y, Markl G (2019) Crystallographic and fluid compositional effects on the halogen (Cl, F, Br, I) incorporation in pyromorphite-group minerals, American Mineralogist, 104, 1673-1688 |
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