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|   |   | Name: Naumannite RRUFF ID: R070505 Ideal Chemistry: Ag2Se Locality: DeLamar mine, Silver City District, Owyhee County, Idaho, USA Source: James Shigley [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Dark gray metallic massive Status: The identification of this mineral is not yet confirmed. | 
| Mineral Group: [ Not in a structural group (133) ] | ||
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| RRUFF ID: | R070505.9 | ||||||
| Sample Description: | Powder, using Mo radiation | ||||||
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| REFERENCES for Naumannite | |
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| American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record] | |
| 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] | |
| Rose G (1828) Ueber ein neues Selenerz vom Harz, Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 14, 471-473 [view file] | |
| Haidinger W (1845) Zweite Klasse: Geogenide. XIV. Ordnung. Glanze. III. Silberglanz. Naumannit., in Handbuch der Bestimmenden Mineralogie Bei Braumüller and Seidel Wien 563-570 [view file] | |
| Ramsdell L S (1925) The crystal structure of some metallic sulfides, American Mineralogist, 10, 281-304 [view file] | |
| Earley J W (1950) Description and synthesis of the selenide minerals, American Mineralogist, 35, 337-364 [view file] | |
| Pinsker Z G, Ching-Liang C, Imamov R M, Lapidus E L (1965) Determination of the crystal structure of the low-temperature phase α-Ag2Se, Soviet Physics - Crystallography, 10, 225-231 [view file] | |
| Wiegers G A (1971) The crystal structure of the low-temperature form of silver selenide, American Mineralogist, 56, 1882-1888 [view file] | |
| Petruk W, Owens D R, Stewart J M, Murray E J (1974) Observations on acanthite, aguilarite and naumannite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 12, 365-369 [view file] | |
| Pingitore N E, Ponce B F, Eastman M P, Moreno F, Podpora C (1992) Solid solutions in the system Ag2S-Ag2Se, Journal of Material Research, 7, 2219-2224 | |
| Stone W E, Fleet M E, Crocket J H, Kingston D M (1992) Platinum-group minerals in pyroxenite from the Boston Creek flow basaltic komatiite, Abitibi greenstone belt, Ontario, The Canadian Mineralogist, 30, 109-119 [view file] | |
| Pingitore N E, Ponce B F, Estrada L, Eastman M P, Yuan H L, Porter L C, Estrada G (1993) Calorimetric analysis of the system Ag2S-Ag2Se between 25 and 250 °C, Journal of Material Research, 8, 3126-3130 | |
| Bindi L, Pingitore N E (2013) On the symmetry and crystal structure of aguilarite, Ag4SeS, Mineralogical Magazine, 77, 21-31 [view file] | |
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