| Locality type: | Mine |
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| Species: | Alacránite |
| Formula: | As8S9 |
| Comments: | Occurs associated with realgar, orpiment, native arsenic, sulfur, stibnite, pyrite, greigite, arsenopyrite, arsenolamprite, sphalerite and acanthite , within barite-quartz-calcite veins |
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| Validity: | Valid - Type Locality |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Alacránite data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Alacrán Mine, Alacrán, Pampa Larga mining district, Tierra Amarilla, Copiapó Province, Atacama, Chile |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 304 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:304:3 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | 7ff320c9-635e-44d5-aef0-a10f7e5aba3e |
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Popova, V.I., Popov, V.A., Clark, A., Polyakov, V.O., Borisovskii, S.E. (1986) Alacránite, As8S9–a new mineral. Zapiski Vsesoyuznogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva: 115(3): 360-368. Hawthorne, Frank C., Burke, Ernst A. J., Ercit, T. Scott, Grew, Edward S., Grice, Joel D., Jambor, John L., Puziewicz, Jacek, Roberts, Andrew C., Vanko, David A. (1988) New Mineral Names. American Mineralogist, 73 (1-2) 189-199 Bonazzi, Paola, Bindi, Luca, Popova, Valentina, Pratesi, Giovanni, Menchetti, Silvio (2003) Alacranite, As8S9: structural study of the holotype and re-assignment of the original chemical formula. American Mineralogist, 88 (11) 1796-1800 doi:10.2138/am-2003-11-1220 |
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 | | Report (issue) | | As8S9 Alacránite Crystal Data: Monoclinic. Point Group: 2/m. Crystals are pinacoidal, prismatic, and...analyses; corresponding to As0.88S1.00. (2) Kateřina mine, Czech Republic; average of 3 electron microprobe...Occurrence: In hydrothermal As-S veins (Alacrán mine, Chile); in the condensation zone of a hydrothermal...New Guinea); as sublimates on a burning mine dump (Kateřina mine, Czech Republic). Association: Realgar...sphalerite, acanthite, barite, quartz, calcite (Alacrán mine, Chile); realgar, orpiment, uzonite, stibnite, cinnabar |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Cu4FBr(OH)6, is a new mineral found at the Great Australia mine, Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia. An assemblage...hemimorphite. Mojaveite was discovered at the Aga mine where it occurs with cerussite, chrysocolla, khinite...Clark (1970) in the Ag-As-Sb vein deposit at Alacrán, Chile. The proposal for a new mineral was not approved...Clark (1970) and named alacránite. However having greater unit-cell volume, alacránite also has a chemical...never submitted to IMA due to confusion with alacránite or due to semi-technogenical origin. In the museum |
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