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Ferdowsiite

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Uchucchaqua Mine, Lima, Peru. BB 1,0mm.
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Location: Peru/Lima, Region/Oyon, Provinz/Uchucchacua Mine
Mineral: Ferdowsiite
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Uchucchaqua Mine, Lima, Peru. BB 1,0mm.

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Contribution: Mabu 2017-04-15
Locality: Uchucchacua Mine / Oyon, Provinz / Lima, Region / Peru
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mit Arsiccioit; eventuell die besten xx von dem Mineral !; Monte Arsiccio Mine, Italien; Bildbreite ca 3mm
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Collection: loismin
Location: Italien/Toskana (Toscana)/Lucca, Provinz/Apuanische Alpen/Stazzema/Sant'Anna di Stazzema/Miniera di Monte Arsiccio
Mineral: Ferdowsiite
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Ferdowsiit xx

mit Arsiccioit; eventuell die besten xx von dem Mineral !; Monte Arsiccio Mine, Italien; Bildbreite ca 3mm

Collection: loismin
Copyright: loismin
Contribution: loismin 2016-11-19
Locality: Miniera di Monte Arsiccio / Sant'Anna di Stazzema / Stazzema / Apuanische Alpen / Lucca, Provinz / Toskana (Toscana) / Italien

Collectors Summary

Color grauschwarz
Streak color dunkelgrau
Lustre Metallglanz
Hardness (Mohs) verm. 2.5 - 3
Cleavages keine
Fracture uneben
Crystal System monoklin, P21/n
Morphology nadelig; auch symplektitisch

Chemism

Chemical formula

Ag8(Sb5As3)S16

Empirical formula (analysis)

Ag7.97Pb0.08Sb4.75As3.15Bi0.01S16.04

Chemical composition

Antimon, Arsen, Silber, Schwefel

Unit weight: 2207.07045852 u; Number of atoms in the formula: 32

Info

Empirical formula:

Ag7.97Pb0.08Sb4.75As3.15Bi0.01S16.04

Element

Symbol

Weight%

Atoms

Atoms%

Atom weight (u)

Sum weight (u)

Sulfur

S

23.30

16.04

50.13

32.0655000

514.3306200

Arsenic

As

10.69

3.15

9.84

74.9216020

236.0030463

Silver

Ag

38.95

7.97

24.91

107.8682200

859.7097134

Antimony

Sb

26.20

4.75

14.84

121.7601000

578.3604750

Lead

Pb

0.75

0.08

0.25

207.2100000

16.5768000

Bismuth

Bi

0.09

0.01

0.03

208.9803820

2.0898038

Analysis wt%

Ag : 38.81, Pb : 0.76, Sb : 26.06, As : 10.64, Bi : 0.11, S : 23.21; WDX (Makovicky et al. 2013)

Strunz 9th edition incl. updates

2

2: Sulfide und Sulfosalze (Sulfide, Selenide, Telluride, Arsenide, Antimonide, Bismutide, Sulfoarsenide, Sulfoantimonide, Sulfobismuthide)
2:
2:

Lapis Classification

II/E.08-025

II: SULFIDE UND SULFOSALZE (Sulfide, Selenide, Telluride, Arsenide, Antimonide, Bismutide)
E: Sulfosalze (S : As,Sb,Bi = x)
8: Sulfosalze mit Silber vorherrschend (x=6,0 - 1,6)

IMA status

anerkannt - Neue Mineralien Feb. 2013; CNMNC Newsletter No. 15

Mineral status

anerkanntes Mineral

Optical Properties

Color

grauschwarz

Streak color

dunkelgrau

Change in color

in Reflexion grauweiß

Diaphaneity (Transparency)

opak

Lustre

Metallglanz

Pleochroism

schwach von weiß nach grau

Bireflectance

schwach

Anisotropism

schwach in Luft, stärker in Öl; keine Innenreflexe

Reflectivity: (Lambda nm) ↓, ↑, Ø

(470) 34.90, 37.30, 36.10
(546) 33.40, 35.90, 34.65
(589) 32.40, 35.10, 33.75
(650) 30.70, 33.50, 32.10

Reflection chart Ferdowsiite

Reflectivity Ø

34.15

Crystallography

Crystal System

monoklin

Class (H-M)

2/m

Space Group number

14

Space Group

P21/n

Cell parameters a (Å)

8.677

Cell parameters b (Å)

5.799

Cell parameters c (Å)

13.839

Cell parameters a/b or c/a

1.496

Cell parameters c/b

2.386

Cell parameters α

90°

Cell parameters β

96.175°

Cell parameters γ

90°

Z

1

Volume (ų)

692.31

Crystal structure

Superstruktur von PbS, Struktur bestimmt

X-Ray Powder Diffraction

3.225(96), 3.205(100), 2.900(78), 2.750(90), 2.707(73), 1.998(41), 1.979(39), 1.940(22)

XRD chart Ferdowsiite

Calculated from d-spacing and intensity at 0.1541838 nm (Cu)

Morphology

nadelig; auch symplektitisch

Physical Properties

Hardness (Mohs)

verm. 2.5 - 3

Density (g/cm³)

5.3 (berechnet)

5.293 ( ρ calc. Mineralienatlas )

Cleavages

keine

Fracture

uneben

Tenacity

spröde

(Co-)Type locality

(Co-)Type locality

Iran/West-Aserbaidschan, Provinz/Sardasht, Landkreis/Barika Erzlagerstätte

Type material

Department of Materials Engineering and Physics, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

Natural History Museum-Vienna, Austria

Collection number of type material

15006 (Salzburg); N 9604 (Wien)

Preface

Name from

Ferdowsi Tousi (935 - 1020), persischer Dichter

Author (Name, Year)

Dan Topa, Emil Makovicky, Hubert Putz, Georg Zagler und Husein Tajjedin (2013)

References

Topa, D., Makovicky, E., Putz, H., Zagler, G. and Tajjedin, H. (2013) Ferdowsiite, IMA 2012-062. CNMNC Newsletter No. 15, February 2013, page 9; Mineralogical Magazine, 77, 112.

Makovicky, E., Topa, D., Tajeddin, Putz, H., Zagler, G. (2013) Ferdowsiite: A new mineral from the Barika ore deposit, Iran. The Canadian Mineralogist, 51, 727 - 734

Other languages

German

Ferdowsiit

English

Ferdowsiite

Russian

Фирдоусиит

CNMNC (IMA)-Number

IMA 2012-062

CNMNC symbol

Symbol

Fdw

Locations with GPS information

IDs

GUSID (Global unique identifier short form) -X4DnXpuNkSoCwtKB7lrGw
GUID (Global unique identifier) 9D037EF9-6E7A-4436-A80B-0B4A07B96B1B
Database ID 7537