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Name: Siegenite RRUFF ID: R070252 Ideal Chemistry: CoNi2S4 Locality: Gruge Viktoria Musen, Siegen, Siegerland, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Source: Michael Scott S105567 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Steel gray cubo-octahedra associated with dark gray tetrahedrite (with parallel growth on corners), siderite and minor quartz Status: The identification of this mineral is confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis. |
Mineral Group: [ Spinel (66) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Siegenite samples (3) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R070252.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 9.399(1)Å b: 9.399(1)Å c: 9.399(1)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 830.5(1)Å3 Crystal System: cubic |
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REFERENCES for Siegenite | |
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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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Dana J D (1850) Siegenite, in A System of Mineralogy, Third Edition George P Putnam New York and London 687-687 [view file] |
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Knop O, Reid K I G, Sutarno, Nakagawa Y (1968) Chalkogenides of the transition elements. VI. X-Ray, neutron, and magnetic investigation of the spinels Co3O4, NiCo2O4, Co3S4, and NiCo2S4, Canadian Journal of Chemistry, 46, 3463-3476 [view file] |
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Petruk W, Harris D C, Stewart J M (1969) Langisite, a new mineral, and the rare minerals cobalt pentlandite, siegenite, parkerite and bravoite from the Langis mine, Cobalt-Gowganda area, Ontario, The Canadian Mineralogist, 9, 597-616 [view file] |
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Huang C H, Knop O (1971) Chalkogenides of the transition elements. VIII An X-ray and neutron diffraction study of spinel CoNi2S4, Canadian Journal of Chemistry, 40, 598-602 |
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Zakrzewski M A (1984) Minerals of the bravoite villamaninite series and cuprian siegenite from Karniowice, Poland, The Canadian Mineralogist, 22, 499-502 [view file] |
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Ondru P, Veselovský F, Gabaová A, Hlouek J, rein V, Vavrín I, Skála R, Sejkora J, Drábek M (2003) Primary minerals of the Jáchymov ore district, Journal of the Czech Geological Society, 48, 19-147 [view file] |
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Hazen R M, Hystad G, Golden J J, Hummer D R, Liu C, Downs R T, Morrison S M, Ralph J, Grew E S (2017) Cobalt mineral ecology, American Mineralogist, 102, 108-116 [view file] |
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Beckett-Brown C E, McDonald A M, Zhe W (2018) A crystallographically oriented intergrowth of siegenite (CoNi2S4) and millerite from the Morokweng impact structure, South Africa: Chemistry, texture, and origin, The Canadian Mineralogist, 56, 705-722 |
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Bosi F, Biagioni C, Pasero M (2019) Nomenclature and classification of the spinel supergroup, European Journal of Mineralogy, 31, 183-192 [view file] |
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