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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...
- 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...
- elemental) form, but is more
often found as the
tellurides of gold such as
calaverite and
krennerite (two
different polymorphs of AuTe2), petzite, Ag3AuTe2...
- nuggets. Gold
sometimes occurs combined with
tellurium as the
minerals calaverite, krennerite, nagyagite,
petzite and
sylvanite (see
telluride minerals)...
- Au3Te5 is a
superconductor at 1.62 K. Gold
telluride minerals, such as
calaverite and
krennerite (AuTe2),
petzite (Ag3AuTe2), and
sylvanite (AgAuTe2), are...
- and
Strunz mineral classification systems.
Examples include:
altaite calaverite coloradoite empressite hessite kostovite krennerite melonite merenskyite...
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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...
-
commonly ****ociated with
native gold, hessite, sylvanite, krennerite,
calaverite, altaite, montbrayite, melonite, frohbergite, tetradymite, rickardite...
- 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...
- gold, proustite, rhodochrosite, ****nopyrite, sphalerite, tetrahedrite,
calaverite, tellurobi****hite,
galena and pyrite. "Nagyágite". Mindat.org. Retrieved...