Pentlandite EDS spectrum, 50 kV Rh anode x-ray beam, CSIRO 2015

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Reference	Spectra from unpublished supplementary material for: Torpy A., Wilson N.C., MacRae C.M., Barnes S., and Verrall M. (2015), Characterising drill core mineralogy by micro-XRD mapping,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	2015-02-04
Material	Pentlandite [ (Fe, Ni)₉S₈ ]
Analysis technique	Energy dispersive x-ray spectrometry (EDS)
Instrument	Bruker M4 Tornado
Probe	50 kV Rh anode x-ray beam
Anode current	0.499 mA
Detector name	Bruker XFLASH
Det. technology	Silicon drift detector (SDD)
Real time	0.2097 s
Live time	0.05125 s
Dead time	75.5603 %
Channel count	4096
Energy range	-954.595 … 39969.5 eV
Gain	9.99368 eV/channel
Intensity range	942 counts
Integral	31215 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Comment	EDS spectrum from unpublished supplementary material.
Measurement tags	Unpublished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
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Specimen image

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

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