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General Poyarkovite Information
Help on Chemical Formula: Chemical Formula: Hg3ClO
Help on Composition: Composition: Molecular Weight = 653.22 gm
   Mercury   92.12 %  Hg   95.80 % Hg2O
   Chlorine   5.43 %  Cl    5.43 % Cl
               -   %  Cl   -1.22 % -O=Cl2
   Oxygen     2.45 %  O
            ______        ______ 
            100.00 %      100.00 % = TOTAL OXIDE
Help on Empirical Formula: Empirical Formula: Hg3ClO
Help on Environment: Environment: Oxidized cinnabar ores.
Help on IMA Status: IMA Status: Approved IMA 1981
Help on Locality: Locality: Khaydarkan (Kyrgyzstan) antimony-mercury deposit. Arzak mercury deposit, situated about 12 km northeast of the well-known Terlig-Khaya mercury mine, Pii-Khem district, Tuva Republic, R Link to MinDat.org Location Data.
Help on Name Origin: Name Origin: Named for Vlakimir Erastovich Poyarkov, Russian geologist, well-known investigator of mercury and antimony deposits.
Help on Synonym: Synonym: ICSD 87734
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Poyarkovite

Comments: Dark greenish black thin poyarkovite film on white chert.
Location: Elena, Durango, Mexico. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Poyarkovite Crystallography
Help on Axial Ratios: Axial Ratios: a:b:c =2.1078:1:1.8682
Help on Cell Dimensions: Cell Dimensions: a = 19.009, b = 9.018, c = 16.848, Z = 24; beta = 110.82° V = 2,699.55 Den(Calc)= 9.64
Help on Crystal System: Crystal System: Monoclinic - PrismaticH-M Symbol (2/m) Space Group: C 2/c
Help on X Ray Diffraction: X Ray Diffraction: By Intensity(I/Io): 2.38(1), 2.74(0.8), 2.6(0.6),
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Vasil ev V I , Pervukhina N V , Romanenko G V , Magarill S A , Borisov S V , The Canadian Mineralogist , 37 (1999) p.119-126, New data on the mercury oxide-chloride mineral poyarkovite: The second, find, and crystal-structure determination

 

Physical Properties of Poyarkovite

Help on Cleavage: Cleavage: None
Help on Color: Color: Dark red, Red, Black.
Help on Density: Density: 9.56
Help on Diaphaniety: Diaphaniety: Opaque to translucent
Help on Fracture: Fracture: Conchoidal - Fractures developed in brittle materials characterized by smoothly curving surfaces, (e.g. quartz).
Help on Habit: Habit: Anhedral Grains - Granular minerals without the expression of crystal shapes
Help on Hardness: Hardness: 2-2.5 - Gypsum-Finger Nail
Help on Luster: Luster: Vitreous - Adamantine
Help on Streak: Streak: red
 

Optical Properties of Poyarkovite

Help on Gladstone-Dale: Gladstone-Dale: CI meas= 0.326 (Poor) - where the CI = (1-KPDmeas/KC)
CI calc= 0.331 (Poor) - where the CI = (1-KPDcalc/KC)
KPDcalc= 0.1037,KPDmeas= 0.1046,KC= 0.1551
Help on Optical Data: Optical Data: Biaxial (?), b=2
Help on Pleochroism (x): Pleochroism (x): deep red.
Help on Pleochroism (z): Pleochroism (z): brownish red.
Help on RL Anisotrophism: RL Anisotrophism: Strong, azure to blue.
Help on RL Color: RL Color: White.
Help on Reflectivity Reflectivity
Standardized Intensity (100%) Reflection Spectra of Poyarkovite in Air
λ R1 R2  ∑ R1(λ)   ∑ R2(λ) 
 440 nm   25.00   31.00 
   
 460 nm   24.50   31.00 
 480 nm   22.50   31.00 
 500 nm   22.50   30.00 
 520 nm   22.20   29.20 
 540 nm   22.00   28.40 
 560 nm   21.60   27.20 
 580 nm   20.90   25.50 
 600 nm   20.00   23.50 
 620 nm   18.50   22.10 
 640 nm   17.00   20.70 
Calculated Relative Intensity Colors of Poyarkovite in Air
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Calculated Properties of Poyarkovite

Help on Electron Density: Electron Density:

relectron=7.76 gm/cc
note: rPoyarkovite =9.56 gm/cc.
Help on Fermion Index Fermion Index Fermion Index = 0.27822
Boson Index = 0.72178
Help on Photoelectric: Photoelectric:

PEPoyarkovite =1,607.49 barns/electron
U=PEPoyarkovite x relectron=12468.73 barns/cc.
Help on Radioactivity: Radioactivity: GRapi = 0 (Gamma Ray American Petroleum Institute Units)

Poyarkovite is Not Radioactive
 

Poyarkovite Classification
Help on Dana Class: Dana Class: 10.5.2.1 (10)Oxyhalides and Hydroxyhalides
  (10.5)where Am (O,OH)p Xq
  (10.5.2)Dana Group
 
10.5.2.1 Poyarkovite Hg3ClO C 2/c 2/m
Help on Strunz Class: Strunz Class: III/D.06-20 III - Halogenides
  III/D - Oxi-halogenides with mercury
  III/D.06 - Terlinguaite - Comancheite
 
III/D.06-10 Terlinguaite HgHgClO C 2/c 2/m
 
III/D.06-11 Aurivilliusite! HgHgOI C 2/m 2/m
 
III/D.06-12 Hanawaltite Hg6Hg[Cl,(OH)]2O3 Pbma 2/m 2/m 2/m
 
III/D.06-13 Tedhadleyite! HgHg10O4I2(Cl1.16Br0.84)2 A1 1
 
III/D.06-20 Poyarkovite Hg3ClO C 2/c 2/m
 
III/D.06-30 Kadyrelite Hg4(Br,Cl)2O I a3d 4/m 3 2/m
 
III/D.06-40 Eglestonite Hg6Cl3O(OH)(?) I a3d 4/m 3 2/m
 
III/D.06-45 Vasilyevite! (Hg2)10O6I3Cl(CO3) P1 1
 
III/D.06-50 Mosesite Hg2N(Cl,SO4,MoO4,CO3)·(H2O) F43m 4 3m
 
III/D.06-60 Gianellaite Hg4(SO4)N2 F43m 4 3m
 
III/D.06-70 Kleinite Hg2N(Cl,SO4)·n(H2O) C63/mmc 6/m 2/m 2/m
 
III/D.06-80 Pinchite Hg5O4Cl2 I bam 2/m 2/m 2/m
 
III/D.06-90 Comancheite Hg13(Cl,Br)8O9 Pnnm,Pnn2 Ortho
 

Other Poyarkovite Information
Help on References: References: NAME( CanMin, 2/99) PHYS. PROP.(CanMin, 2/99) OPTIC PROP.(AntBidBlaNic3)
Help on See Also: See Also: Links to other databases for Poyarkovite :
1 -Am. Min. Crystal Structure Database 2 -Athena 3 - EUROmin Project 4 -Google Images 5 -Google Scholar 6 -Handbook of Mineralogy (UofA) 7 -MinDAT 8 -MinMax(Deutsch) 9 -MinMax(English) 10 -Mineralienatlas (Deutsch) 11 -QUT Mineral Atlas 12 -École des Mines de Paris

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Poyarkovite

Hg3ClO
Dana No: 10.5.2.1 Strunz No: III/D.06-20
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