Where it forms, where it's found
- Type locality
- Musonoi Mine
- Kolwezi
- Mutshatsha
- Lualaba
- DR Congo
-10.7135°, 25.4454°
2recorded occurrences
Safety & handling
Physical
Optical
- Pleochroism
- Non-pleochroic
- Optical colour
- Grey
- Anisotropism
- Moderate with brown tints
- Tropism
- Anisotropic
- Reflectance R%
- (50.05,50.75,37.00,37.85) 400, (50.20,51.20,37.00,38.00) 420, (50.30,51.65,37.00,38.25) 440, (50.60,52.25,36.95,38.40) 460, (50.80,52.30,37.00,38.40) 470, (50.90,52.50,37.00,38.40) 480, (51.20,52.55,37.05,38.35) 500, (51.40,52.60,37.35,38.25) 520, (51.70,52.80,37.70,38.30) 540, (51.85,52.90,37.75,38.30) 546, (52.00,53.15,37.85,38.40) 560, (52.10,53.45,38.25,38.70) 580, (52.20,53.55,38.50,38.60) 589, (52.25,53.65,38.40,38.90) 600, (52.30,53.75,38.60,39.15) 620, (52.35,53.90,38.65,39.40) 640, (52.40,54.00,38.80,39.60) 650, (52.40,54.10,38.90,39.80) 660, (52.45,54.25,39.10,40.10) 680, (52.50,54.35,39.30,40.45) 700
Crystallography
- Cell parameters
- a = 6.659(7) Å · b = 4.124(5) Å · c = 4.438(6) Å
- Cell angles
- β = 92.76(3) °
- Ratio a:b:c
- 1 : 0.619 : 0.666
- Unit cell volume
- 121.7 ų
- Z
- 2
- Morphology
Anhedral grains to 200 microns.
- Type-locality form
Anhedral grains to 200 μm.
- Comment
space group : C2/m, C2 or Cm
Chemical composition
Synonyms
- IMA2001-005
- Verbeekiet
In other languages
- German
- IMA 2001-005 · Verbeekit
- Italian
- Verbeekite
- Chinese
- 单斜硒钯矿
Classification
Strunz
10th ed.2.EA.25
- 2Sulfides and SulfosaltsClass
- 2.EMetal Sulfides, M: S <= 1:2Division
- 2.EAM:S = 1:2 - With Cu, Ag, AuGroup
- 2.EA.25VerbeekiteSpecies
Literature, links & citation
Citations
- 2002Roberts, Andrew C., Paar, Werner H., Cooper, Mark A., Topa, Dan, Criddle, Alan J., Jedwab, J. (2002) Verbeekite, monoclinic PdSe2, a new mineral from the Musonoi Cu-Co-Mn-U mine, near Kolwezi, Shaba Province, Democratic Republic of Congo. Mineralogical Magazine, 66 (1) 173-179 doi:10.1180/0026461026610020 DOI: 10.1180/0026461026610020
- 2002Mandarino, Joseph A. (2002) New minerals. The Canadian Mineralogist, 40 (4) 1215-1234 doi:10.2113/gscanmin.40.4.1215 DOI: 10.2113/gscanmin.40.4.1215
- 2003Jambor, J.L., Roberts, A.C. (2003) New mineral names. American Mineralogist: 88: 251-255.
- 2005(2005) Verbeekite. Handbook of Mineralogy. Mineralogical Society of America
- 2017Selb, Elisabeth, Tribus, Martina, Heymann, Gunter (2017) Verbeekite, the Long-Unknown Crystal Structure of Monoclinic PdSe2. Inorganic Chemistry, 56 (10) 5885-5891 doi:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b00544DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b00544
Cite this entry
@misc{mineral2026,
author = {Mineral Index editorial board},
title = {Verbeekite — Mineral Index},
year = {2026},
url = {https://mineralindex.org/minerals/verbeekite-25640},
note = {Accessed 2026-05-11}
}