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Argentopearceite

Collectors Summary

Crystal System trigonal, P321

Chemism

Chemical formula

Ag16As2S11

Chemical composition

Arsen, Silber, Schwefel

Unit weight: 2228.455224 u; Number of atoms in the formula: 29

Info

Empirical formula:

Ag16As2S11

Element

Symbol

Weight%

Atoms

Atoms%

Atom weight (u)

Sum weight (u)
Sulfur

S

15.83

11

37.93

32.0655000

352.7205000
Arsenic

As

6.72

2

6.90

74.9216020

149.8432040
Silver

Ag

77.45

16

55.17

107.8682200

1,725.8915200

Strunz 9th edition incl. updates

2.JA.05a

2: Sulfide und Sulfosalze (Sulfide, Selenide, Telluride, Arsenide, Antimonide, Bismutide, Sulfoarsenide, Sulfoantimonide, Sulfobismuthide)
J: Sulfosalze mit PbS als Vorbild
A: Ketten als Flächen verbunden
05a:

IMA status

anerkannt - CNMNC Newsletter 57, August-September (2020)

Mineral status

anerkanntes Mineral

IMA Classification

IMA Classification

 Pearceite-Polybasite group

Crystallography

Crystal System

trigonal

Class (H-M)

32

Space Group number

150

Space Group

P321

Cell parameters a (Å)

14.8583(5)

Cell parameters b (Å)

-

Cell parameters c (Å)

12.3038(5)

Cell parameters a/b or c/a

0.828

Cell parameters c/b

-

Volume (ų)

2352.384

Crystal structure

Pearceit-Polybasit-Gruppe; Struktur ermittelt

X-Ray Powder Diffraction

12.348(17), 3.120(62), 3.085(100), 2.858(38), 2.537(36), 2.391(24), 2.376(19), 1.861(19)
XRD chart Argentopearceite

Calculated from d-spacing and intensity at 0.1541838 nm (Cu)

(Co-)Type locality

(Co-)Type locality

Tschechien/Aussig (Ústecký kraj, Ústí nad Labem)/Teplice (Okres Teplice)/Teplitz-Schönau (Teplice)/Niklasberg (Mikulov)/Lehnschafter Stollen

Type material

Das Typenmaterial befindet sich in den Sammlungen der Abteilung für Mineralogie und Petrologie des Nationalmuseums in Prag, Cirkusová 1740, 19300 Prag 9, Tschechische Republik, Katalognummer P1P 352020

Preface

Author (Name, Year)

Jiří Sejkora, Jakub Plášil, Emil Makovicky, Pavel Škácha, Zdeněk Dolníček, und Roman Gramblička (2020)

References

Sejkora, J., Plášil, J., Makovicky, E., Škácha, P., Dolníček, Z., and Gramblička, R.: Argentopearceite, IMA 2020-049, in: CNMNC Newsletter 57, Eur. J. Mineral., 32, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-495-2020, 2020.

IMA group assignments

 
Pearceite-Polybasite group
 
 
 

 
 
Argentopearceite
Ag16As2S11
trigonal
P321

 
 
Argentopolybasite-T2ac
Ag16Sb2S11
trigonal
P321

 
 
Auropearceite
[Ag9AuS4][Ag6As2S7]
trigonal
P321

 
 
Auropolybasite
[Ag9AuS4][Ag6Sb2S7]
trigonal
P321

 
 
Benleonardite
Ag15Cu(Sb,As)2S7Te4
tetragonal
 

 
 
Cupropearceite
[Cu6As2S7][Ag9CuS4]
trigonal
P3m1

 
 
Cupropolybasite
[Cu6Sb2S7][Ag9CuS4]
trigonal
P3m1

 
 
Pearceite-Tac
[Ag9CuS4][(Ag,Cu)6(As,Sb)2S7]
trigonal
P3m1

 
 
Pearceite-T2ac
[Ag9CuS4][(Ag,Cu)6(As,Sb)2S7]
trigonal
P321

 
 
Polybasite
(Ag,Cu)16Sb2S11
 
 

 
 
Polybasite-Tac
[Ag9CuS4][(Ag,Cu)6(Sb,As)2S7]
trigonal
P3m1

 
 
Polybasite-T2ac
[Ag9CuS4][(Ag,Cu)6(Sb,As)2S7]
trigonal
P321

 
 
Selenopolybasite
[(Ag,Cu)6(Sb,As)2(S,Se)7][Ag9Cu(S,Se)2Se2]
trigonal
P3m1

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CNMNC (IMA)-Number

IMA 2020-049

CNMNC symbol

Symbol

Apea

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IDs

GUSID (Global unique identifier short form) -6RQl9LmIkKXDiG5yEk8_w
GUID (Global unique identifier) 9750A4FB-E6D2-4222-970E-21B9C8493CFF
Database ID 8918