DOCUMENTATION_FORMAT: MINERAL

SAMPLE_ID: HS477

MINERAL_TYPE: Sulfide

MINERAL: Covellite

FORMULA: CuS

FORMULA_HTML: CuS

COLLECTION_LOCALITY: Montana

ORIGINAL_DONOR: Hunt and Salisbury Collection

CURRENT_SAMPLE_LOCATION: USGS Denver Spectroscopy Laboratory

ULTIMATE_SAMPLE_LOCATION: USGS Denver Spectroscopy Laboratory

SAMPLE_DESCRIPTION:

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XRD_ANALYSIS:

40 kV - 30 mA, 7.3-9.5 keV
File: covel477.mdi, *.out (smear mount on quartz plate)
References: JCPDS #6-464, #42-1340; Huebner's reference patterns
Found: Covellite, subequal pyrite, unidentified moderate to weak reflections at 4.72, 3.99, 3.70, 2.84, and 1.857 angstroms

Comment: Covellite and pyrite reflections are sharp suggeting a good degree of crystallinity and, in the case of covellite, compositional heterogeneity. Additional reflections (6) are of weak to moderate intensity and have not been identified - they may represent two or more phases. Needs more work.

J.S. Huebner, J. Pickrell, and T. Schaefer, 1994, written communication..

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COMPOSITIONAL_ANALYSIS_TYPE: None # XRF, EM(WDS), ICP(Trace), WChem

COMPOSITION_TRACE: None

COMPOSITION_DISCUSSION:

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MICROSCOPIC_EXAMINATION:

Lead gray metallic luster, trace white impurities. G. Swayze.

END_MICROSCOPIC_EXAMINATION.

SPECTROSCOPIC_DISCUSSION:

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SPECTRAL_PURITY: 1_2_3_4_

LIB_SPECTRA_HED: where Wave Range Av_Rs_Pwr Comment

LIB_SPECTRA: splib04a r 1292 0.2-3.0µm 200 g.s. = 17 µm

LIB_SPECTRA: splib05a r ____ 0.2-3.0µm 200 g.s.=

LIB_SPECTRA: splib06a r ____ 1.5-25µm 250 g.s.=