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Descloizite R120097

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Name: Descloizite
RRUFF ID: R120097
Ideal Chemistry: PbZn(VO4)(OH)
Locality: Collins Vein, Mammoth mine, Tiger, Arizona
Source: Bob Downs and Hexiong Yang
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Brown transparent closed pyramids, like flattened octahedra, associated with vanadinite
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed only by single crystal X-ray diffraction.
Mineral Group: [ descloizite (10) ]
Quick search: [ All Descloizite samples (3) ]
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Unoriented Raman on the primary sample
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RRUFF ID: R120097
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Sample Description: Unoriented Raman on the primary sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW
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POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R120097.9
Sample Description: Single crystal, powder profile is calculated
Cell Refinement Output: a: 7.645(2)Å    b: 6.060(2)Å    c: 9.419(4)Å
alpha: 90°    beta: 90°    gamma: 90°   Volume: 436.4(2)Å3    Crystal System: orthorhombic
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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Descloizite

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]

Damour A A (1854) Notice sur la descloizite, nouvelle espèce minérale, Annales de Chimie et de Physique, 41, 72-78   [view file]

Descloizeaux A (1854) Note sur la forme cristalline d'un nouveau vanadiate de plomb, Annales de Chimie et de Physique, 41, 78-80   [view file]

Rammelsberg C (1880) Ueber die Vanadinerze aus dem Staat Córdoba in Argentinien, Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft, 32, 708-713   [view file]

Richmond W E (1940) Crystal chemistry of the phosphates, arsenates and vanadates of the type A2XO4(Z), American Mineralogist, 25, 441-478   [view file]

Barnes W H, Qurashi M M (1952) Unit cell and space group data for certain vanadium minerals, American Mineralogist, 37, 407-422

Bachmann H G (1953) Beiträge zur kristallchemie natürlicher und künstlicher schwermetallvanadate. I. Die morphologie des descloizit (und des pyrobelonit), Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1953, 68-82

Bachmann H G (1953) Beiträge zur kristallchemie natürlicher und künstlicher schwermetallvanadate. II. Die kristallstruktur des descloizit, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte, 1953, 193-208

Bachmann H G (1953) Die kristallstruktur des descloizit, Acta Crystallographica, 6, 102-102

Qurashi M M, Barnes W H (1963) The structures of the minerals of the descloizite and adelite groups: IV - descloizite and conichalcite (part 2) The structure of conichalcite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 7, 561-577   [view file]

Qurashi M M, Barnes W H (1964) The structures of the minerals of the descloizite and adelite groups: V—descloizite and conichalcite (part 3). The structure of descloizite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 8, 23-39   [view file]

Hawthorne F C, Faggiani R (1979) Refinement of the structure of descloizite, Acta Crystallographica, B35, 717-720

Frost R L, Williams P A, Kloprogge J T, Leverett P (2001) Raman spectroscopy of descloizite and mottramite at 298 and 77 K, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 32, 906-911

Effenberger H (2002) New investigations of the adelite-descloizite group, 18th General Meeting of the International Mineralogical Association, Edinburgh, UK, 18, 134-142   [view file]

Effenberger H (2002) Structural relations in the adelite- and descloizite-structure type, Acta Crystallographica, A58, C333-C333

Ðorđević T, Kolitsch U, Nasadala L (2016) A single-crystal X-ray and Raman spectroscopic study of hydrothermally synthesized arsenates and vanadates with the descloizite and adelite structure types, American Mineralogist, 101, 1135-1149

Weil M (2019) Crystal chemistry of new descloizite-type compounds containing mercury, European Journal of Mineralogy, 31, 369-378