Pentlandite EDS spectrum, 15 keV e- beam, CSIRO 2015

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Measurement details

Description EDS spectrum of Pentlandite
Reference Spectra from unpublished supplementary material for: Torpy A., Wilson N.C., MacRae C.M., Barnes S., and Verrall M. (2015), Characterising drill core mineralogy by micro-XRD mapping, AMAS XIII: the 13th Biennial Australian Microbeam Analysis Symposium: program and abstracts, Eds: Karsten Goemann, Leonid Danyushevsky and Jay Thompson, University of Tasmania, Hobart, February 2015. IBSN: 978-09580408-5-3. https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2477868828/view
Date measured 2015-01-30
Material Pentlandite [ (Fe, Ni)9S8 ]
Analysis technique Energy dispersive x-ray spectrometry (EDS)
Instrument JEOL 8500F
Probe 15 keV electron beam
Beam current 40.12 nA
Detector name 2× Bruker XFLASH
Real time 404.733 s
Live time 305.092 s
Dead time 24.6189 %
Channel count 3096
Energy range -475.251 … 14984 eV
Gain 4.99491 eV/channel
Intensity range 5.589×105 counts
Integral 3.9296×107 counts
Comment EDS spectrum from unpublished supplementary material.
Measurement tags Unpublished

Specimen details

Name KH-2
Owner CSIRO
Catalog ID S-15-002
Locality Kharaelakh intrusion, Noril'sk-Talnakh region, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Siberian Federal District, Russia
Type Rock fragment
Form Thin section
Other measurements CL

EDS

Specimen image

Clustered EPMA phase map of the KH-2 specimen (owner: S. Barnes, CSIRO Mineral Resources), from the Kharelakh intrusion, Noril'sk, Russia

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Composition

Nominal composition of Pentlandite [ (Fe,Ni)9S8 ].
Element Atoms At% Wt%
Fe 4.5 26.5 32.6
Ni 4.5 26.5 34.2
S 8 47.1 33.2
Total 17 100 100