Unnamed (Bi Telluride IV)
A material that is NOT an approved mineral species
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Formula:
Bi8Te3
Crystal System:
Trigonal
Tetradymite homologue
Unique Identifiers
Mindat ID:
52862
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:1:52862:7
GUID
(UUID V4):
(UUID V4):
292e8c07-a09f-479a-a795-9be679abfc3f
Optical Data of Unnamed (Bi Telluride IV)
Chemical Properties of Unnamed (Bi Telluride IV)
Formula:
Bi8Te3
Elements listed:
Crystallography of Unnamed (Bi Telluride IV)
Crystal System:
Trigonal
Class (H-M):
3m (3 2/m) - Hexagonal Scalenohedral
Space Group:
R3m
Setting:
R3m
Cell Parameters:
a = 4.4 Å, c = 63 Å
Ratio:
a:c = 1 : 14.318
Unit Cell V:
1,056.27 ų (Calculated from Unit Cell)
Other Information
Health Risks:
No information on health risks for this material has been entered into the database. You should always treat mineral specimens with care.
References for Unnamed (Bi Telluride IV)
Reference List:
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Ciobanu, C.L., Pring, A., Cook, N.J., Self, P., Jefferson, D., Dima, G.I., Melnikov, V. (2009): Chemical-structural modularity in the tetradymite group: A HRTEM study. American Mineralogist 94, 517-534.
Ciobanu, Cristiana L., Ashley D. Slattery, Nigel J. Cook, Benjamin P. Wade, and Kathy Ehrig. 2021. "Bi8Te3, the 11-Atom Layer Member of the Tetradymite Homologous Series" Minerals 11, no. 9: 980. https://doi.org/10.3390/min11090980
Internet Links for Unnamed (Bi Telluride IV)
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Localities for Unnamed (Bi Telluride IV)
Locality List
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? - Indicates mineral may be doubtful at this locality.
- Good crystals or important locality for species.
- World class for species or very significant.
(TL) - Type Locality for a valid mineral species.
(FRL) - First Recorded Locality for everything else (eg varieties).
Struck out - Mineral was erroneously reported from this locality.
Faded * - Never found at this locality but inferred to have existed at some point in the past (e.g. from pseudomorphs).
All localities listed without proper references should be considered as questionable.
All localities listed without proper references should be considered as questionable.
Brazil | |
| Alexandre Raphael Cabral, Atlas Vasconcelos Corrêa Neto (2015) Empirical Bi8Te3 and Bi2Te from the São Sebastião Gold Deposit, Brazil: Implications For Lode-gold Mineralization in Minas Gerais. The Canadian Mineralogist, 53(6), 1061–1072. |
Canada | |
| Ciobanu, Cristiana L., Ashley D. Slattery, Nigel J. Cook, Benjamin P. Wade, and Kathy Ehrig. 2021. "Bi8Te3, the 11-Atom Layer Member of the Tetradymite Homologous Series" Minerals 11, no. 9: 980. https://doi.org/10.3390/min11090980 |