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Name: Scheelite RRUFF ID: R050543 Ideal Chemistry: Ca(WO4) Locality: Nacozari, Sonora, Mexico Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 9983 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Green drusy coating Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. |
Mineral Group: [ Scheelite (17) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Scheelite samples (5) ] |
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POWDER DIFFRACTION | |||||||
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RRUFF ID: | R050543.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 5.240(1)Å b: 5.240(1)Å c: 11.359(3)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 311.93(6)Å3 Crystal System: tetragonal |
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REFERENCES for Scheelite | |
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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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Hoffmann C A S (1789) Mineralsystem des Herrn Inspektor Werners mit dessen Erlaubnis herausgegeben von C A S Hoffmann, Bergmannisches Journal, 1, 369-398 [view file] |
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Karsten D L G (1800) Tabellarische uebersicht der Gebirgsarten, in Mineralogische Tabellen Heinrich August Rottmann Berlin 56-56 [view file] |
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von Leonhard K C (1821) Scheelit, in Handbuch der Oryktognosie Mohr and Winter Heidelberg, Germany 594-596 [view file] |
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Hutton C O (1950) Studies of heavy detrital minerals, Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 61, 635-710 [view file] |
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Kay M I, Frazer B C, Almodovar I (1964) Neutron diffraction refinement of CaWO4, Journal of Chemical Physics, 40, 504-506 |
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Iishi K (1975) Study of the force field of scheelite, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 141, 31-58 [view file] |
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Shimazaki H (1977) Grossular-spessartine-almandine garnets from some Japanese scheelite skarns, The Canadian Mineralogist, 15, 74-80 [view file] |
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Zaw U K, Clark A H (1978) Fluoride-hydroxyl ratios of skarn silicates, Cantung E-zone scheelite orebody, Tungsten, Northwest Territories, The Canadian Mineralogist, 16, 207-221 [view file] |
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Hazen R M, Finger L W (1985) Highpressure crystal chemistry of scheelite-type tungstates and molybdates, Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, 46, 253-263 [link] |
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Kloprogge J T, Frost R L (1999) A Raman microscopic study of tungstate and molybdate minerals: scheelite, wolframite and wulfenite, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1999, 193-211 |
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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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Wood S A, Samson I M (2000) The hydrothermal geochemistry of tungsten in granitoid environments: I. Relative solubilities of ferberite and scheelite as a function of T, P, pH and mNaCl, Economic Geology, 95, 143-182 |
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Crane M, Frost R L, Williams P A, Kloprogge J T (2002) Raman spectroscopy of the molybdate minerals chillagite (tungsteinian wulfenite-I4), stolzite, scheelite, wolframite and wulfenite, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 33, 62-66 |
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Errandonea D, Monjón F J, Somayazulu M, Häusermann D (2004) Effects of pressure on the local atomic structure of CaWO4 and YLiF4: mechanism of the scheelite-to-wolframite and scheelite-to-fergusonite transitions, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 177, 1087-1097 |
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Kloprogge J T, Weier M L Duong L V, Frost R L (2004) Microwave-assisted synthesis and characterisation of divalent metal tungstate nanocrystalline minerals: ferberite, hübnerite, sanmartinite, scheelite and stolzite, Materials Chemistry and Physics, 88, 438-443 |
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Rodríguez-Hernández P, López-Solano J, Radescu S, Mujica A, Muñoz A, Errandonea D, Pellicer-Porres J, Segura A, Ferrer-Roca C, Manjón F J, Kumar R S, Tschauner O, Aquilanti G (2006) Theoretical and experimental study of CaWO4 and SrWO4 under pressure, Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, 67, 2164-2171 |
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Poulin R S, McDonald A M, Kontak D J, McClenaghan M B (2016) On the relationship between cathodoluminescence and the chemical composition of scheelite from geologically diverse ore-deposit environments, The Canadian Mineralogist, 54, 1147-1173 |
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Poulin R S, Kontak D J, McDonald A (2018) Assessing scheelite as an ore-deposit discriminator using its trace-element and REE chemistry, The Canadian Mineralogist, 56, 265-302 |
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