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General Pitticite Information

Help on Chemical  Formula: Chemical Formula: Hydrous ferric arsenate sulfate (Fe, AsO4, SO4, H2O)
Help on Composition: Composition: Molecular Weight = 364.69 gm
   Iron      30.63 %  Fe   43.79 % Fe2O3
   Arsenic   20.54 %  As   31.51 % As2O5
   Hydrogen   0.55 %  H     4.94 % H2O
   Sulfur     8.79 %  S    21.95 % SO3
   Oxygen    39.48 %  O
            ______        ______ 
            100.00 %      102.19 % = TOTAL OXIDE
Help on Empirical Formula: Empirical Formula: Fe3+2(AsO4)(SO4)·(H2O)
Help on Environment: Environment: Late secondary mineral formed by oxidation of earlier arsenic-bearing species, may be deposited by mine and spring waters.
Help on IMA Status: IMA Status: Valid Species (Pre-IMA) 1813
Help on Locality: Locality: Frieber, Schneeberg, Schwarzenberg, Johanngeorgenstadt, Marienber, and other districts in Saxony, Germany. Link to MinDat.org Location Data.
Help on Name Origin: Name Origin: From the Greek for "pitch", for its typical resinous appearance.
 

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Pitticite

Comments: Dark brown to orange-brown massive Pitticite.
Location: Graul, Schwarzenberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany. Scale: Picture size 6 mm.
© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Pitticite Crystallography

Help on Crystal System: Crystal System: Amorphous- No Crystals
 

Physical Properties of Pitticite

Help on Cleavage: Cleavage: None
Help on Color: Color: Gray, Gray white, Yellow, Yellow brown, White.
Help on Density: Density: 2.5
Help on Diaphaniety: Diaphaniety: Transparent to Opaque
Help on Fracture: Fracture: Conchoidal - Fractures developed in brittle materials characterized by smoothly curving surfaces, (e.g. quartz).
Help on Habit: Habit: Massive - Uniformly indistinguishable crystals forming large masses.
Help on Habit: Habit: Reniform - "Kidney like" in shape (e.g.. hematite).
Help on Hardness: Hardness: 2-3 - Gypsum-Calcite
Help on Luminescence: Luminescence: Non-fluorescent.
Help on Luster: Luster: Vitreous - Greasy
Help on Streak: Streak: yellow white
 

Optical Properties of Pitticite

Help on Gladstone-Dale: Gladstone-Dale: CI meas= -0.018 (Superior) - where the CI = (1-KPDmeas/KC)
KPDmeas= 0.2491,KC= 0.2446
Help on Optical Data: Optical Data: Biaxial (?), a=1.61-1.63, b=1.616-1.635,
 

Calculated Properties of Pitticite

Help on Electron Density: Electron Density:

relectron=2.40 gm/cc
note: rPitticite =2.50 gm/cc.

Help on Fermion Index Fermion Index Fermion Index = 0.00734
Boson Index = 0.99266
Help on Photoelectric: Photoelectric:

PEPitticite = 23.71 barns/electron
U=PEPitticite x relectron= 56.88 barns/cc.

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

Pitticite is Not Radioactive

 

Pitticite Classification

Help on  Dana Class: Dana Class: 43.5.3.1 (43)Compound Phosphates, etc.
  (43.5)(Hydrated Compound Anions With Hydroxyl or Halogen)
  (43.5.3)Dana Group
 
43.5.3.1 Pitticite Hydrousferricarsenatesulfate(Fe,AsO4,SO4,H2O) None
 
43.5.3.2 Zykaite Fe4(AsO4)3(SO4)(OH)·15(H2O) Unk Ortho
Help on  Strunz Class: Strunz Class: VII/D.05-10 VII - Phosphates, Arsenates and Vanadates
  VII/D - Water-bearing phosphates with unfamiliar anions, cations of medium size: Cu, Zn, Mn, Al, Fe
  VII/D.05 - Pitticite - Zykaite series
 
VII/D.05-10 Pitticite Hydrousferricarsenatesulfate(Fe,AsO4,SO4,H2O) None
 
VII/D.05-20 Diadochite Fe2(PO4)(SO4)(OH)·6(H2O) P1 1
 
VII/D.05-30 Sarmientite Fe2(AsO4)(SO4)(OH)·5(H2O) P 21/c 2/m
 
VII/D.05-40 Bukovskyite Fe2(AsO4)(SO4)(OH)·7(H2O) P1 or P1 Tri
 
VII/D.05-50 Tooeleite Fe(8-2x)[(As(1-x),S(x))O4]6·5(H2O) Pbcm,Pbc21 Ortho
 
VII/D.05-60 Zykaite Fe4(AsO4)3(SO4)(OH)·15(H2O) Unk Ortho
 

Other Pitticite Information

Help on References: References: NAME( AntBidBlaNic4) PHYS. PROP.(Dana) OPTIC PROP.(Enc. of Minerals,2nd ed.,1990)
Help on See Also: See Also: Links to other databases for Pitticite :
1 -Am. Min. Crystal Structure Database 2 -Athena 3 - Crocoite.com Mineral Locations 4 - EUROmin Project 5 -Google Images 6 -Google Scholar 7 -Handbook of Mineralogy (UofA) 8 -MinDAT 9 -MinMax(Deutsch) 10 -MinMax(English) 11 -Mineralienatlas (Deutsch) 12 -QUT Mineral Atlas 13 -École des Mines de Paris

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Pitticite

Hydrous ferric arsenate sulfate (Fe, AsO4, SO4, H2O)
Dana No: 43.5.3.1 Strunz No: VII/D.05-10
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