Mindat Short Description
Grandfathered but inadequately described and questionable mineral; name may refer to both impure nukundamite, which was originally called "idaite", or to a tetragonal phase close to Sn-poor mawsonite (Rice et al., 1979). Most data here are consistent w...
Geoscience Ontology Status Notes
Frenzel G (1958) Ein neues Mineral: Idait. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte 1958, 142-142 Chemical formula revised: Levy C (1968) Contribution a la mineralogie des sulfures de cuivre du type Cu_3_XS_4_, Mémoires du Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières 54, 1-178
IMA Formula (from Mindat)
Cu3FeS4
RRUFF Formula (from Geoscience Ontology)
Cu3FeS2-4