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General Allochalcoselite Information

Chemical Formula: Cu+Cu++5PbO2(SeO3)2Cl5
Composition: Molecular Weight = 1,060.48 gm
Copper 35.47 % Cu 6.75 % Cu2O / 36.90 % CuO
Lead 20.91 % Pb 22.52 % PbO
Selenium 14.82 % Se 20.82 % SeO2
Chlorine 16.75 % Cl 16.75 % Cl
- % Cl -3.78 % -O=Cl2
Oxygen 12.05 % O
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100.00 % 99.96 % = TOTAL OXIDE
Empirical Formula: CuCu4.92Pb1.07Se1.99O7.99Cl5.01
Environment: Found among lead and copper selenite-chloride exhalative products
associated with the fumaroles.
IMA Status: Approved IMA 2004 (Dana # Added)
Locality: Second cinder cone of the northern breach of the Great Tolbachik
Fissure Eruption, Kamchatka Region, Russia. Link to MinDat.org
Location Data.
Name Origin: The name is compositional and is derived from the Greek, a????
("different") + ?a???? ("copper") + se??'??("selenium"), to reflect the
different valences and crystallographic behavi or of copper in this
selenite mineral.
Synonym: IMA2004-025

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Allochalcoselite Crystallography
Axial Ratios: a:b:c =3.0041:1:2.491
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Cell Dimensions: a = 18.468, b = 6.1475, c = 15.314, Z = 4; beta = 119.284 V = 1,516.44

Den(Calc)= 4.64
Crystal System: Monoclinic - PrismaticH-M Symbol (2/m) Space Group: C 2/m
X Ray Diffraction: By Intensity(I/Io): 3.08(1)(602,020 ), 3.55(0.8)(311 ), 3.86(0.8)(113 ),
1.543(0.5)(441, 12.0), 1.348(0.4), 1.448(0.3)(8.2.10 ), 1.71(0.3)
(334,828,),
Crystal Structure:
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drag2 - RMB Resize/Rotate Mineralogist , 44 (2006) p.507-514, The crystal structure of allochalcoselite,
Keyboard Cu+Cu2+5PbO2(SeO3)2Cl5,, a mineral with well-defined Cu+ and Cu2+ positions,
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H - Help Screen Locality: fumaroles of the Great Tolbachik fissure eruption, Kamchatka Peninsula,
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Physical Properties of Allochalcoselite

Cleavage: {100} Perfect
Color: Dark brown.
Diaphaneity: Translucent
Fracture: Brittle - Generally displayed by glasses and most non-metallic minerals.
Habit: Encrustations - Forms crust-like aggregates on matrix.
Hardness: 3-4 - Calcite-Fluorite
Luster: Adamantine
Streak: brown

Optical Properties of Allochalcoselite

Gladstone-Dale: CI calc= -0.092 (Poor) - where the CI = (1-KPDcalc/KC)
KPDcalc= 0.2205,KC= 0.202
Ncalc = 1.94
Optical Data: Biaxial (+), a=1.98, b=2.01, g=2.08, bire=0.1000

Calculated Properties of Allochalcoselite

Electron Density: Bulk Density (Electron Density)=4.17 gm/cc
note: Specific Gravity of Allochalcoselite =4.64 gm/cc.
Fermion Index: Fermion Index = 0.05
Boson Index = 0.95
Photoelectric: PEAllochalcoselite = 386.78 barns/electron
U=PEAllochalcoselite x rElectron Density=1,611.67 barns/cc.
Radioactivity: GRapi = 0 (Gamma Ray American Petroleum Institute Units)
Allochalcoselite is Not Radioactive

Allochalcoselite Classification
Dana Class: 34.06.10.01 (34)Selenites - Tellurites - Sulfites
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(34.06)Dana Type
(34.06.10)Dana Group
34.06.10.01 Allochalcoselite! CuCu5PbO2(SeO3)2Cl5 C 2/m 2/m
Strunz Class: 04.JG.40 04 - OXIDES (Hydroxides, V[5,6] vanadates, arsenites,
antimonites, bismuthites, sulfites, selenites, tellurites, iodate
04.J - Arsenites, Antimonites, Bismuthites, Sulfites,
04.JG -Selenites with additional anions, without H2O
04.JG.40 Allochalcoselite! CuCu5PbO2(SeO3)2Cl5 C 2/m 2/m

Other Allochalcoselite Information

References: NAME( AmMin, v91, p1201) PHYS. PROP.(AmMin, v91, p1201) OPTIC
PROP.(AmMin, v91, p1201)
See Also: Links to other databases for Allochalcoselite :
1 - Am. Min. Crystal Structure Database
2 - Athena
3 - GeoScienceWorld
4 - Google Images
5 - Google Scholar
6 - MinDAT
7 - Mineralienatlas (Deutsch)
8 - Online Mineral Museum
9 - QUT Mineral Atlas
10 - Ruff.Info

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Allochalcoselite
Cu+Cu++5PbO2(SeO3)2Cl5
Dana No: 34.06.10.01 Strunz No: 04.JG.40
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