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Alacránite from
Alacrán Mine, Alacrán, Pampa Larga mining district, Tierra Amarilla, Copiapó Province, Atacama, Chile


Locality type:Mine
Classification
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
Confirmation
Validity:Valid - Type Locality
Data
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
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:304
Long-form Identifier:1:3:304:3
GUID (UUID V4):0
References
Clark, Alan H. (1970) Alpha-arsenic sulfide, from Mina Alacrán, Pampa Larga, Chile. American Mineralogist, 55 (7-8) 1338-1344
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
Clark, A. M. (1993) Hey's Mineral Index - Mineral Species, Varieties and Synonyms (3rd ed.). Natural History Museum.
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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