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Mimetite R060920

Name: Mimetite
RRUFF ID: R060920
Ideal Chemistry: Pb₅(AsO₄)₃Cl
Locality: Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Otavi District, Oshikoto, Namibia
Source: Marcus Origlieri [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Yellow to brownish hexagonal prism, monoclinic polytype
Status: The identification of this mineral has been made only by X-ray diffraction.

Mineral Group: [ Apatite (56) ]

Quick search: [ All Mimetite samples (6) ]

CHEMISTRY

RRUFF ID:	R060920.2
Sample Description:	Microprobe Fragment

RAMAN SPECTRUM

RRUFF ID:

Sample Description:

Sample is oriented and mounted on a pin

Pin ID:

L01429

Orientation:

Laser parallel to a* (1 0 0). Fiducial mark perpendicular to laser is parallel to c [0 0 1].

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To download sample data,
please select a specific
orientation angle.

BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS

RRUFF ID:

R060920

Wavelength:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

Instrument settings:

Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW

DOWNLOADS:

	Raman Data (RAW)
	RRUFF File

POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R060920.1

Sample Description:

Powder, cell parameters are from single crystal

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 10.2596(8)Å b: 20.527(2)Å c: 7.4588(5)Å
alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 119.969(4)° Volume: 1360.7(3)Å³ Crystal System: monoclinic

File Type Information

Calculated diffraction file.

File Type Information

Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

File Type Information

Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

DOWNLOADS:

	Cell Refinement Data
	Cell Refinement Output Data
	DIF File
	X-ray Data (XY - Processed)
	RRUFF File
	X-ray Data (XY - RAW)
	RRUFF File

REFERENCES for Mimetite
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]
Beudant F S (1832) Mimetèse, plomb arséniaté, in Traité Élémentaire de Minéralogie, 2nd Edition Paris 594-595 [view file]
Fleischer M (1969) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 54, 990-994 [view file]
Sumin de Portilla V I (1974) Infrared spectroscopic investigation of the structure of some natural arsenates and the nature of H-bonds in their structures, The Canadian Mineralogist, 12, 262-268 [view file]
Cesbron F, Williams S A (1980) Iranite-hémihédrite, bellite, phoenicochroite, vauquelinite et fornacite: synthèse et nouvelles données, Bulletin de Minéralogie, 103, 469-477 [view file]
Sokolova E V, Egorov-Tismenko Yu K (1982) Study of crystalline structures of rare arsenates: duftite and mimetite, Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta, Geologiya, 37, 50-56
Ginderow D (1988) Structure cristalline d´un chloro-silico-chromate de plomb, Pb₅(CrO₄,SiO₄)₃Cl, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 184, 185-190 [view file]
Dai Y, Hughes J M, Moore P B (1991) The crystal structures of mimetite and clinomimetite, Pb₅(AsO₄)₃Cl, The Canadian Mineralogist, 29, 369-376 [view file]
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]
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
Baikie T, Ferraris C, Klooster W T, Madhavi S, Pramana S S, Pring A, Schmidt G, White T J (2008) Crystal chemistry of mimetite, Pb₁₀(AsO₄)₆Cl_1.48O_0.26, and finnemanite, Pb₁₀(AsO₃)₆Cl₂, Acta Crystallographica, B64, 34-41 [view file]
Lyalina L M, Savchenko Y E, Selivanova E A, Zozulya D R (2010) Behoite and mimetite from the Saharjok alkaline intrusion, Kola Peninsula, Geology of Ore Deposits, 52, 641-645
Pasero M, Kampf A R, Ferraris C, Pekov I V, Rakovan J R, White T J (2010) Nomenclature of the apatite supergroup minerals, European Journal of Mineralogy, 22, 163-179 [view file]
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
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
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
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
Puzio B, Zhang L, Szymanowski J E S, Burns P C, Manecki M (2023) Thermodynamic characterization of synthetic lead-arsenate apatites with different halogen substitutions, American Mineralogist, 108, 675-685

REFERENCES for Mimetite

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]

Beudant F S (1832) Mimetèse, plomb arséniaté, in Traité Élémentaire de Minéralogie, 2nd Edition Paris 594-595 [view file]

Fleischer M (1969) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 54, 990-994 [view file]

Sumin de Portilla V I (1974) Infrared spectroscopic investigation of the structure of some natural arsenates and the nature of H-bonds in their structures, The Canadian Mineralogist, 12, 262-268 [view file]

Cesbron F, Williams S A (1980) Iranite-hémihédrite, bellite, phoenicochroite, vauquelinite et fornacite: synthèse et nouvelles données, Bulletin de Minéralogie, 103, 469-477 [view file]

Sokolova E V, Egorov-Tismenko Yu K (1982) Study of crystalline structures of rare arsenates: duftite and mimetite, Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta, Geologiya, 37, 50-56

Ginderow D (1988) Structure cristalline d´un chloro-silico-chromate de plomb, Pb₅(CrO₄,SiO₄)₃Cl, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 184, 185-190 [view file]

Dai Y, Hughes J M, Moore P B (1991) The crystal structures of mimetite and clinomimetite, Pb₅(AsO₄)₃Cl, The Canadian Mineralogist, 29, 369-376 [view file]

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]

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

Baikie T, Ferraris C, Klooster W T, Madhavi S, Pramana S S, Pring A, Schmidt G, White T J (2008) Crystal chemistry of mimetite, Pb₁₀(AsO₄)₆Cl_1.48O_0.26, and finnemanite, Pb₁₀(AsO₃)₆Cl₂, Acta Crystallographica, B64, 34-41 [view file]

Lyalina L M, Savchenko Y E, Selivanova E A, Zozulya D R (2010) Behoite and mimetite from the Saharjok alkaline intrusion, Kola Peninsula, Geology of Ore Deposits, 52, 641-645

Pasero M, Kampf A R, Ferraris C, Pekov I V, Rakovan J R, White T J (2010) Nomenclature of the apatite supergroup minerals, European Journal of Mineralogy, 22, 163-179 [view file]

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

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

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

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

Puzio B, Zhang L, Szymanowski J E S, Burns P C, Manecki M (2023) Thermodynamic characterization of synthetic lead-arsenate apatites with different halogen substitutions, American Mineralogist, 108, 675-685