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|   | Name: Schieffelinite RRUFF ID: R140572 Ideal Chemistry: Pb10Te6+6O20(OH)14(SO4)(H2O)5 Locality: Joe mine, Tombstone District, Tombstone Hills, Cochise County, Arizona, USA Source: Rock Currier [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Colorless thin platy or scaly crystals, associated with clusters of acicular ottoite crystals. Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. | |
| Mineral Group: [ Schieffelinite (1) ] | ||
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| RRUFF ID: | R140572.9 | ||||
| Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||
| Cell Refinement Output: | a: 9.6523(8)Å    b: 19.5751(22)Å    c: 10.5117(12)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 1986.14(41)Å3 Crystal System: orthorhombic | ||||
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| REFERENCES for Schieffelinite | |
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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] | |
| Williams S A (1980) Schieffelinite, a new lead tellurate-sulphate from Tombstone, Arizona, Mineralogical Magazine, 43, 771-773 [view file] | |
| Fleischer M, Chao G Y, Francis C A, Pabst A (1981) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 66, 217-220 [view file] | |
| Kampf A R, Mills S J, Housley R M, Rumsey M S, Spratt J (2012) Lead-tellurium oxysalts from Otto Mountain near Baker, California: VII. Chromschieffelinite, Pb10Te6O20(OH)14(CrO4)(H2O)5, the chromate analog of schieffelinite, American Mineralogist, 97, 212-219 [view file] | |
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