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Nakaseite

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Guanajuato, Mun. de Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico
© JF Carpentier 2007




Formula:
CuAg
 
3
Pb
 
4
Sb
 
12
S
 
24
Colour:lead greyLustre:
Name:Named for its type locality, the Nakase gold mine, Honshu Island, Japan.
A variety of Andorite VI

Orginally reported from Nakase mine (Nakaze mine), Yabu-gun, Hyogo Prefecture, Kinki Region, Honshu Island, Japan, when it was described as a new species. Now considered to consist of a Cu-substituted random stacking of quatrandorite and senandorite.

Classification of Nakaseite

IMA status:Rejected 1962
Nickel-Strunz 10th (pending) edition ID:2.JC.40a

2 : SULFIDES and SULFOSALTS (sulfides, selenides, tellurides; arsenides, antimonides, bismuthides; sulfarsenites, sulfantimonites, sulfbismuthites, etc.)
J : Sulfosalts of PbS archetype
C : Galena derivatives, with Tl
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Physical Properties of Nakaseite

Colour:lead grey

Chemical Properties of Nakaseite

Formula:
CuAg
 
3
Pb
 
4
Sb
 
12
S
 
24
Essential elements:Ag, Cu, Pb, S, Sb
All elements listed in formula:Ag, Cu, Pb, S, Sb

Relationship of Nakaseite to other Species

Related Minerals - Nickel-Strunz Grouping):

- +
2.JC.05Ellisite
Tl
 
3
AsS
 
3
2.JC.10Gillulyite
Tl
 
2
(As,Sb)
 
8
S
 
13
2.JC.25eGalenobismutite
PbBi
 
2
S
 
4

Other Names for Nakaseite

Synonyms:
Nakaséite
Other Languages:
German:Nakaseit
Japanese:中瀬鉱
Spanish:Nakaseita

Other Information

Health Warning:No information on health risks for this material has been entered into the database. You should always treat mineral specimens with care.

References for Nakaseite

Reference List:

- +
Ito, T., Muraoka, H. (1960) Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 113, 94-98.

Mineralogical Magazine (1962): 33: 261.

Moëlo, Y., Makovicky, E., Mozgova, N.N., Jambor, J.L., Cook, N., Pring, A., Paar, W., Nickel, E.H., Graeser, S., Karup-Møller, S.; Balić-Žunić, T.; Mumme, W.G., Vurro, F., Topa, D., Bindi, L., Bente, K., Shimizu, M. (2008): the IMA CNMNC Sulfosalt Subcommittee. Revision of sulfosalt definition and nomenclature. A review of sulfosalts systematics. European Journal of Mineralogy, 20, 7-46.

Nespolo, M., Ozawa, T., Kawasaki, Y., Sugiyama, K. (2012): Structural relations and pseudosymmetries in the andorite homologous series. Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences 107, 226-243.

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    • Honshu Island
      • Kinki Region
        • Hyogo Prefecture
          • Yabu City
    		Ito, T., Muraoka, H. (1960) Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 113, 94-98.
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    • Guanajuato
      • Mun. de Guanajuato
    		J F Carpentier collection; Alfredo Petrov collection
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