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Pearceite: Mineral information, data and localities.
Named in honor of Dr. Richard Pearce (June 29, 1837 Barripper, Cornwall - May 18, 1927 London), chemist and metallurgist. He spent three decades in the United States, erecting smelters near Denver, Colorado and in Butte, Montana. He was a founding member of the Colorado Scientific Society. He donated many specimens to the British Museum.
Originally pearceite was thought to be an arsenic analogue of polybasite.
"Arsenpolybasite" was, however, found to represent two different polytypes of pearceite, pearceite-T2ac and pearceite-M2a2b2c.
Pearceite forms a series with polybasite-Tac (formerly "antimonpearceite"), which is a polytype of polybasite.
The old name pearceite was replaced by pearceite-Tac, antimonpearceite by polybasite-Tac, arsenpolybasite-221 by pearceite-T2ac, and arsenpolybasite-222 by pearceite-M2a2b2c (Bindi et al. 2007).
Acanthite 12 photos of Pearceite associated with Acanthite on mindat.org.
Silver 10 photos of Pearceite associated with Silver on mindat.org.
Quartz 7 photos of Pearceite associated with Quartz on mindat.org.
Proustite 7 photos of Pearceite associated with Proustite on mindat.org.
Mixite 5 photos of Pearceite associated with Mixite on mindat.org.
Uraninite 5 photos of Pearceite associated with Uraninite on mindat.org.
Fluorite 4 photos of Pearceite associated with Fluorite on mindat.org.
Tennantite 4 photos of Pearceite associated with Tennantite on mindat.org.
Arsenopyrite 3 photos of Pearceite associated with Arsenopyrite on mindat.org.
Calcite 2 photos of Pearceite associated with Calcite on mindat.org.
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The following Pearceite specimens are currently listed for sale on minfind.com.
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ⓘ Cedrolina chromitite body ?
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ⓘ Kongsberg silver mining district ?
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ⓘ Crandon massive sulfide deposit (Little Sand Lake Deposit; Crandon Project; Exxon Deposit) ?

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