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General Platinum Information

Chemical Formula:

Composition:

Molecular Weight = 195.08 gm

Platinum 100.00 % Pt

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100.00 %

Empirical Formula:

Environment:

Mainly in grains and nuggets in alluvial deposits.

IMA Status:

Valid Species (Pre-IMA) 1748

Locality:

Most notably from the Urals, Russia and Brazil. Link to MinDat.org Location Data.

Name Origin:

Spanish, platina = "silver."

Name Pronunciation:

Platinum

Synonym:

ICSD 64917

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Platinum Image

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Platinum Cherepanovite Cooperite

Comments: Creamy-grayish fractured grains of cherepanovite with gray granular cooperite and white massive grains of iridian ruthenian platinum. Polished section in reflected light.
Location: Placer Deposit, Northern Pekul'nei River, Pekul'nei Range, Chukotka (Tchukotka) Okrug, Chukot Peninsula, Far-Eastern Region, Russia. Scale: Picture size 0.12 mm.
© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

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Platinum

Comments: Crystallized platinum nugget.
Location: Russia. Scale: 0.5 x 0.7 cm.
© Fabre Minerals

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Platinum

Comments: Stream-worn, platinum nugget with chromite? Inclusions.
Location: Rio Tinto, San Juan River Basin, Papayan, Cauca, Columbia. Scale: Picture size 1.5 cm.
© Paul M. Schumacher

Platinum Crystallography

Cell Dimensions:

a = 3.9231, Z = 4; V = 60.38 Den(Calc)= 21.46

Crystal System:

Isometric - HexoctahedralH-M Symbol (4/m 3 2/m) Space Group: F m3m

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By Intensity(I/I_o): 2.265(1), 1.962(0.53), 1.1826(0.33),

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Wyckoff R W G , Crystal Structures , 1 (1963) p.7-83, Second edition. Interscience Publishers, New York, New York, Cubic closest packed, ccp, structure

Physical Properties of Platinum

Cleavage:

None

Color:

Whitish steel gray, Steel gray, Dark gray.

Density:

14 - 22, Average = 18

Diaphaneity:

Opaque

Fracture:

Hackly - Jagged, torn surfaces, (e.g. fractured metals).

Habit:

Granular - Generally occurs as anhedral to subhedral crystals in matrix.

Habit:

Nuggets - Irregular lumps produced by stream transport of malleable metals.

Hardness:

4-4.5 - Between Fluorite and Apatite

Luminescence:

Non-fluorescent.

Luster:

Metallic

Magnetism:

Naturally weak

Streak:

grayish white

Optical Properties of Platinum

RL Color:

White.

Reflectivity

**Standardized Intensity (100%) Reflection Spectra of Platinum in Air**
λ	R	∑ R(λ)
400 nm	57.00
420 nm	58.00
440 nm	59.00
460 nm	60.00
480 nm	61.00
500 nm	61.80
520 nm	62.70
540 nm	63.50
560 nm	64.20
580 nm	64.80
600 nm	65.60
620 nm	66.30
640 nm	66.80
660 nm	67.40
680 nm	68.00
700 nm	68.50

**Calculated Relative Intensity Colors of Platinum in Air**
Relative Intensity	0%	20%	40%	60%	80%	100%	120%	140%	150%
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Calculated Properties of Platinum

Electron Density:

Bulk Density (Electron Density)=17.2 gm/cc
note: Specific Gravity of Platinum =21.5 gm/cc.

Fermion Index:

Fermion Index = 0.33
Boson Index = 0.67

Photoelectric:

PE_Platinum=1,619.87 barns/electron
U=PE_Platinum x rElectron Density=27798.55 barns/cc.

Radioactivity:

GRapi = 0 (Gamma Ray American Petroleum Institute Units)
Platinum is Not Radioactive

Platinum Classification

Dana Class:

01.02.01.01 (01)Native Elements

(01.02)with platinum group metals and alloys

(01.02.01)Platinum group (Space Group Fm3m)

01.02.01.01 Platinum Pt F m3m 4/m 3 2/m

01.02.01.02 Iridium (Ir,Os,Ru,Pt) F m3m 4/m 3 2/m

01.02.01.03 Rhodium (Rh,Pt) F m3m 4/m 3 2/m

01.02.01.04 Palladium Pd,Pt F m3m 4/m 3 2/m

Strunz Class:

01.AF.10 01 - ELEMENTS (Metals and intermetallic alloys; metalloids and nonmetals; carbides, silicides, nitrides, phosphides)

01.A - Metals and Intermetallic Alloys

01.AF -Platinum-group elements

01.AF.10 Palladium Pd,Pt F m3m 4/m 3 2/m

01.AF.10 Iridium (Ir,Os,Ru,Pt) F m3m 4/m 3 2/m

01.AF.10 Rhodium (Rh,Pt) F m3m 4/m 3 2/m

01.AF.10 Platinum Pt F m3m 4/m 3 2/m

Other Platinum Information

References:

NAME( Emsley91) PHYS. PROP.(Enc. of Minerals,2nd ed.,1990)

See Also:

Links to other databases for Platinum :
1 - Am. Min. Crystal Structure Database
2 - Amethyst Galleries' Mineral Gallery
3 - Athena
4 - GeoScienceWorld
5 - Google Images
6 - Google Scholar
7 - Handbook of Mineralogy (MinSocAm)
8 - Handbook of Mineralogy (UofA)
9 - MinDAT
10 - Mineral and Gemstone Kingdom
11 - Mineralienatlas (Deutsch)
12 - Online Mineral Museum
13 - QUT Mineral Atlas
14 - Ruff.Info
15 - University of Texas at Austin
16 - WWW-MINCRYST

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Dana No: 01.02.01.01 Strunz No: 01.AF.10
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