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Poyarkovite

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Poyarkovite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Chihuahua, Mexico
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.5 × 1.2 × 1.2 cm
Description

Hundreds of brown microcrystal aggregates of the extremely rare Hg mineral poyarkovite from Mexico on a pale matrix, in a locality still not uploaded to Mindat.

Probably analyzed by the former owner of the specimen (the Vandenbroucke Museum, but the analysis is no longer available)

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

No duplicates available

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Poyarkovite

Formula: 
(Hg2+2)3Cl2O2
Strunz: 
3.DD.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Streak: 
Red
Type Locality: 
Khaidarkan Sb-Hg deposit (Chaidarkan), Fergana Valley, Alai Range (Alay Range), Osh Oblast, Kyrgyzstan

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