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Pavonite

Year of discovery: 1953 (Bolivar mine, Bolivia), 1964 (Japan)

Locality list: 8 localities of pavonite

• AgBi₃S₅
• (Ag,Cu)(Bi,Pb)₃S₅
• [Ag⁺][Bi³⁺₃][S₅]^10-

• Class: Pavonite group < Large 2D fragment Pb sulfosalts < Sulfosalt class
• Class: Sulfosalt

• Color: Dark gray, Silver white
• Streak: Dark gray
• Luster: Metallic
• Diaphaneity: Opaque

• Habit: Thin tabular elongated to [010]

• Cleavage: Indistinct
• Hardness: 2
• Density: 6.8

• System: Monoclinic
• Group: 2/m, C2/m
• Lattice: a=13.4, b=4.0, c=16.3, β=94.5

Etymology: Pavo (peacock) in Latin after Professor Martin Alfred Peacock (1898-1950), Canadian mineralogist