Pinchite

Pinchite

Terlingua Mining District, Texas, USA

Pinchite

Mariquita Mine, Usagre, Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain

Pinchite

Mariquita Mine, Usagre, Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain

Pinchite

Terlingua Mining District, Texas, USA

Pinchite

Mariquita Mine, Usagre, Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain

Pinchite

Mariquita Mine, Usagre, Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain

Pinchite

Terlingua Mining District, Texas, USA

Pinchite

Mariquita Mine, Usagre, Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain

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Bill Pinch

Formula:

Hg²⁺₅Cl₂O₄

Colour:

Dark brown, black

Lustre:

Adamantine

Specific Gravity:

9.5

Crystal System:

Orthorhombic

Name:

Named in honour of William [Bill] Wallace Pinch (1940 - 2017) of Rochester, New York. An experienced private collector and amateur mineralogist. The Pinch medal, issued by the Mineralogical Association of Canada, was established 2001 and named in the honour of Bill Pinch in recognition of his enormous and selfless contributions to mineralogy through the identification of ideal specimens for study, and by making them available to the academic community.

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Type Locality:

ⓘ Terlingua Mining District, Texas, USA

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ID	Species	Reference	Link	Year	Locality	Pressure (GPa)	Temp (K)
0001692	Pinchite	Hawthorne F C, Cooper M A, Sen Gupta P K (1994) The crystal structure of pinchite, Hg5Cl2O4 American Mineralogist 79 1199-1203		1994		0	293

CIF Raw Data - click here to closedata_global _chemical_name_mineral 'Pinchite' loop_ _publ_author_name 'Hawthorne F C' 'Cooper M A' 'Sen Gupta P K' _journal_name_full 'American Mineralogist' _journal_volume 79 _journal_year 1994 _journal_page_first 1199 _journal_page_last 1203 _publ_section_title ; The crystal structure of pinchite, Hg5Cl2O4 ; _database_code_amcsd 0001692 _chemical_formula_sum 'Hg5 Cl2 O4' _cell_length_a 11.619 _cell_length_b 6.105 _cell_length_c 11.710 _cell_angle_alpha 90 _cell_angle_beta 90 _cell_angle_gamma 90 _cell_volume 830.637 _exptl_crystal_density_diffrn 9.099 _symmetry_space_group_name_H-M 'I b a m' loop_ _space_group_symop_operation_xyz 'x,y,z' '1/2+x,1/2+y,1/2+z' 'x,-y,1/2+z' '1/2+x,1/2-y,+z' '-x,y,1/2-z' '1/2-x,1/2+y,-z' '-x,y,1/2+z' '1/2-x,1/2+y,+z' 'x,-y,1/2-z' '1/2+x,1/2-y,-z' 'x,y,-z' '1/2+x,1/2+y,1/2-z' '-x,-y,z' '1/2-x,1/2-y,1/2+z' '-x,-y,-z' '1/2-x,1/2-y,1/2-z' loop_ _atom_site_label _atom_site_fract_x _atom_site_fract_y _atom_site_fract_z Hg1 0.14050 0.21450 0.00000 Hg2 0.16180 0.50000 0.25000 Hg3 0.00000 0.00000 0.25000 Cl 0.10820 0.27500 0.50000 O 0.14400 0.19900 0.17540 loop_ _atom_site_aniso_label _atom_site_aniso_U_11 _atom_site_aniso_U_22 _atom_site_aniso_U_33 _atom_site_aniso_U_12 _atom_site_aniso_U_13 _atom_site_aniso_U_23 Hg1 0.01700 0.01710 0.01120 0.00010 0.00000 0.00000 Hg2 0.02220 0.01120 0.01530 0.00000 0.00000 -0.00250 Hg3 0.01170 0.01860 0.03790 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 Cl 0.00880 0.02750 0.02720 0.00270 0.00000 0.00000 O 0.03000 0.01630 0.01140 -0.00660 -0.00370 0.00060

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Spain
Extremadura Badajoz Usagre ⓘ Mariquita Mine (Sultana Mine)	Salván et al. (2024)
USA
Texas Brewster County ⓘ Mariposa Mine	Smith (1991)
ⓘ Terlingua Mining District (TL)	Sturman et al. (1974) +1 other reference