Where it forms, where it's found
- Geological setting
Secondary zone.
- Type locality
- Aginskoe Au deposit (Aginskoye deposit)
- Central Kamchatka mining district
- Bystrinsky District
- Kamchatka Krai
- Russia
55.4667°, 158.0000°
11recorded occurrences
Safety & handling
Physical
- Hardness
- 1Talc
- 2Gypsum
- 3Calcite
- 4Fluorite
- 5Apatite
- 6Orthoclase
- 7Quartz
- 8Topaz
- 9Corundum
- 10Diamond
- Lustre
- Sub-Metallic
- Transparency
- Opaque
- Colour
- Rose brown to bronze
Quickly tarnishes in air to bluish-black.
- Cleavage
- None Observed
Optical
- Anisotropism
- Unusual. Purple-raspberry or grayish-lilac to gold and yellow.
- Tropism
- Anisotropic
- Reflectance R%
- (11.8,15.8) 420, (10.5,15.2) 440, (9.2,14.8) 460, (8.0,14.8) 480, (6.9,16.9) 500, (6.2,22.5) 520, (5.6,29.5) 540, (6.1,34.5) 560, (8.4,37.6) 580, (13.5,39.2) 600, (21.0,40.0) 620, (29.5,39.8) 640, (36.2,39.0) 660, (41.2,37.7) 680, (44.9,35.7) 700
- Notes
Reflectance data for Cu-rich material. Data also provided for Fe-rich material. See Spiridonov and Chvileva (1979) or Fleischer et al. (1979). Somewhat similar to rickardite and bilibinskite.
Reflected-light panel
R̄ 17.3 %anisotropic · dual curve
Specimen
White reference
R₁ R₂
Mode
Crystallography
- Cell parameters
- a = 4.087 Å
- Morphology
Massive
- Type-locality form
Intergrowths of differently oriented grains, to 1 mm. Aggregates, varying radially in composition. The size of individual grains is < 10 μm.
- Comment
pseudocubic, probably orthorhombic.
Crystal structure
Chemical composition
- Impurities
- Ag
- Se
Synonyms
- IMA1978-019
In other languages
- German
- Bogdanovit · IMA 1978-019
- Italian
- Bogdanovite
Classification
Strunz
10th ed.2.BA.80
- 2Sulfides and SulfosaltsClass
- 2.BMetal Sulfides, M: S > 1: 1 (mainly 2: 1)Division
- 2.BAWith Cu, Ag, AuGroup
- 2.BA.80BogdanoviteSpecies
Dana
8th ed.02.02.03.01
- 02SulfidesClass
- 02.02AmBnXp, with (m+n):p = 3:1Type
- 02.02.03— unnamed intermediate level —Group
- 02.02.03.01BogdanoviteSpecies
CIM
—3.3.13
- 3Sulphides, Selenides, Tellurides, Arsenides and Bismuthides (except the arsenides, antimonides and bismuthides of Cu, Ag and Au, which are included in Section 1)Class
- 3.3Sulphides etc. of AuGroup
- 3.3.13BogdanoviteSpecies
Group, growth & confusion
Literature, links & citation
Citations
- —Bayliss, P. (1990) Revised unit cell dimensions, space group, and chemical formula of some metallic minerals. Canadian Mineralogist: 28: 751-755.
- 1979Fleischer, Michael, Burns, Roger G., Cabri, Louis J., Chao, George Y., Hogarth, D. D., Pabst, Adolf (1979) New Mineral Names. American Mineralogist, 64 (11-12) 1329-1334
- 1979Spiridonov, E.M., Chvileva, T.N. (1979) Bogdanovite, Au5(Cu,Fe)3(Te,Pb)2, a new mineral of the group of inter-metallic compounds of gold. Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta, Geologiya: 1979(1): 44-52.
- 1991Jambor, John L., Burke, Ernst A. J. (1991) New Mineral Names. American Mineralogist, 76 (11-12) 2020-2026
- 1991Spiridonov, E.M. (1991) Composition and structure of the bilibinskite-bogdanovite mineral group. Novye Dannye o Mineralakh: 37: 138-145.
Cite this entry
@misc{mineral2026,
author = {Mineral Index editorial board},
title = {Bogdanovite — Mineral Index},
year = {2026},
url = {https://mineralindex.org/minerals/bogdanovite-702},
note = {Accessed 2026-05-11}
}