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Calaverite, or gold telluride, is an
uncommon telluride of gold, a
metallic mineral with the
chemical formula AuTe2, with
approximately 3% of the gold...
- and
Strunz mineral classification systems.
Examples include:
altaite calaverite coloradoite empressite hessite kostovite krennerite melonite merenskyite...
- Au3Te5 is a
superconductor at 1.62 K. Gold
telluride minerals, such as
calaverite and
krennerite (AuTe2),
petzite (Ag3AuTe2), and
sylvanite (AgAuTe2), are...
- that
ranges from a
steely gray to
almost white. It is
closely related to
calaverite,
which is more
purely gold
telluride with 3% silver.
Sylvanite crystallizes...
- county's
first tourist attractions. The
uncommon gold
telluride mineral calaverite was
discovered in the
county in 1861 and is
named for it. Mark
Twain set...
- on the 3100 foot
level of Ajax Mine,
Battle Mountain.
Sylvanite and
Calaverite covered the walls. Mine
superintendent M.H.
Grice stated, "It is a sight...
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commonly ****ociated with
native gold, hessite, sylvanite, krennerite,
calaverite, altaite, montbrayite, melonite, frohbergite, tetradymite, rickardite...
- gold ore from
Cripple Cr****, Colorado.
Roasting has
driven off the
tellurium from the
original calaverite,
leaving behind vesicular blebs of
native gold....
- C****agnaite Csg
Chestermanite Csm
Clinojimthompsonite Cjim
Crocoite Crc
Calaverite Clv C****edanneite Cda Chevkinite-(Ce) Cvk-Ce
Clinokurchatovite Ckht Cronstedtite...
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deposits of
calaverite were discovered, but
ignored as it was
believed at the time that this was a
mineral akin to fool's gold. The
calaverite was subsequently...
