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Potarite

Year of discovery: 1926 (Kaietur Falls, Guyana), 1999 (Japan)

Locality list: A locality of potarite

• PdHg
• [Pd][Hg]

• Class: Tetraferroplatinum group
• Class: Alloy

• Hg => Cu: Skaergaardite

• Color: Silver white
• Streak: Silver white
• Luster: Metallic
• Diaphaneity: Opaque

• Habit: Octahedral, Fibrous
• Aggregate: Almost columnar

• Cleavage: No
• Hardness: 3.5
• Density: 14.9

• System: Tetragonal
• Group: 4/m2/m2/m, P4/mmm
• Lattice: a=3.0, c=3.7

Etymology: Potaro river in Guyana