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General Getchellite Information

Help on Chemical  Formula: Chemical Formula: AsSbS3
Help on Composition: Composition: Molecular Weight = 293.81 gm
   Antimony  42.27 %  Sb
   Arsenic   24.99 %  As
   Sulfur    32.74 %  S
            ______ 
            100.00 % 
Help on Empirical Formula: Empirical Formula: As0.98Sb1.02S3
Help on Environment: Environment: In an epithermal gold deposit formed in a narrow, steeply-dipping fault zone cutting interbedded Paleozoic (?) shales, argillites, and limestones, near a granodiorite intrusive.
Help on IMA Status: IMA Status: Approved IMA 1965
Help on Locality: Locality: At the Getchell mine, about 32 km northeast of Golconda, Humboldt Co., Nevada, USA. Link to MinDat.org Location Data.
Help on Name Origin: Name Origin: For the locality.
Help on Synonym: Synonym: ICSD 42113
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Getchellite

Comments: Bright red getchellite on matrix.
Location: Khaidarkan (Chaidarkan) Sb-Hg deposit, Fergana Valley, Osh District, Kyrgyzstan. Scale: Picture size 7 mm.
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Getchellite Crystallography

Help on Axial Ratios: Axial Ratios: a:b:c =1.3235:1:1.122
Help on Cell Dimensions: Cell Dimensions: a = 11.949, b = 9.028, c = 10.13, Z = 8; beta = 116.15° V = 980.93 Den(Calc)= 3.98
Help on Crystal System: Crystal System: Monoclinic - PrismaticH-M Symbol (2/m) Space Group: P 21/a
Help on X Ray Diffraction: X Ray Diffraction: By Intensity(I/Io): 2.89(1), 4.44(0.8), 3.63(0.7),
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Kyono A , Kimata M , American Mineralogist , 89 (2004) p.696-700, Structural reinvestigation of getchellite As0.98Sb1.02S3.00

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Physical Properties of Getchellite

Help on Cleavage: Cleavage: [001] Perfect
Help on Color: Color: Blood red, Dark red, Purple red.
Help on Density: Density: 3.92
Help on Diaphaniety: Diaphaniety: Nearly opaque
Help on Fracture: Fracture: Flexible - Flexible fragments.
Help on Habit: Habit: Micaceous - Platy texture with "flexible" plates.
Help on Hardness: Hardness: 1.5-2 - Talc-Gypsum
Help on Luster: Luster: Vitreous - Pearly
Help on Streak: Streak: orange red
 

Optical Properties of Getchellite

Help on Optical Data: Optical Data: Biaxial (+), a=2.72, 2V(Meas)=<46. Dispersion r > v strong.
Help on RL Anisotrophism: RL Anisotrophism: Weak.
Help on RL Color: RL Color: Dark blood red, tarnishing to green to purple iridescence..
Help on Reflectivity Reflectivity
Standardized Intensity (100%) Reflection Spectra of Getchellite in Air
λ R1 R2  ∑ R1(λ)   ∑ R2(λ) 
 400 nm   34.80   37.90 
   
 420 nm   34.20   37.40 
 440 nm   33.60   36.90 
 460 nm   32.70   36.00 
 480 nm   31.80   34.80 
 500 nm   30.70   33.50 
 520 nm   29.50   31.90 
 540 nm   28.10   30.60 
 560 nm   27.00   29.40 
 580 nm   26.20   28.60 
 600 nm   25.70   28.00 
 620 nm   25.20   27.40 
 640 nm   24.90   27.00 
 660 nm   24.50   26.80 
 680 nm   24.20   26.50 
 700 nm   23.80   26.10 
Calculated Relative Intensity Colors of Getchellite in Air
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Calculated Properties of Getchellite

Help on Electron Density: Electron Density:

relectron=3.59 gm/cc
note: rGetchellite =3.98 gm/cc.

Help on Fermion Index Fermion Index Fermion Index = 0.00245
Boson Index = 0.99755
Help on Photoelectric: Photoelectric:

PEGetchellite = 157.76 barns/electron
U=PEGetchellite x relectron= 565.73 barns/cc.

Help on Radioactivity: Radioactivity: GRapi = 0 (Gamma Ray American Petroleum Institute Units)

Getchellite is Not Radioactive

 

Getchellite Classification

Help on  Dana Class: Dana Class: 2.11.1.2 (2)Sulfides - Including Selenides and Tellurides
  (2.11)where Am Bn Xp, with (m+n):p=2:3
  (2.11.1)Dana Group
 
2.11.1.1 Orpiment As2S3 P 21/n 2/m
 
2.11.1.2 Getchellite AsSbS3 P 21/a 2/m
Help on  Strunz Class: Strunz Class: II/F.03-10 II - Sulfides and sulphosalts
  II/F - Sulfides with nonmetallic properties, Arsenic-Sulfides
  II/F.03 - Getchellite - Wakabayashilite series
 
II/F.03-10 Getchellite AsSbS3 P 21/a 2/m
 
II/F.03-20 Wakabayashilite (As,Sb)11S18 P 63/mmc 6/m 2/m 2/m
 

Other Getchellite Information

Help on References: References: NAME( AntBidBlaNic1) PHYS. PROP.(Enc. of Minerals,2nd ed.,1990, AmMin, v 89, p 696) OPTIC PROP.(AntBidBlaNic1)
Help on See Also: See Also: Links to other databases for Getchellite :
1 -Am. Min. Crystal Structure Database 2 -Athena 3 - EUROmin Project 4 -Google Images 5 -Google Scholar 6 -Handbook of Mineralogy (UofA) 7 -MinDAT 8 -MinMax(Deutsch) 9 -MinMax(English) 10 -Mineralienatlas (Deutsch) 11 - Philatelic Mineralogy 12 -QUT Mineral Atlas 13 -École des Mines de Paris

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Getchellite

AsSbS3
Dana No: 2.11.1.2 Strunz No: II/F.03-10
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