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Tetrahedrite is a
copper antimony sulfosalt mineral with formula: (Cu,Fe) 12Sb 4S 13. It is the
antimony endmember of the
continuous solid solution series...
- sulfosalts,
mostly the
series between tennantite (Cu6[Cu4(Fe,Zn)2]As4S13 and
tetrahedrite (Cu6[Cu4(Fe,Zn)2]Sb4S13. It
comes from the
German word for pale, fahl...
- steel-gray, iron-gray or
black in color. A
closely related mineral,
tetrahedrite (Cu12Sb4S13) has
antimony substituting for ****nic and the two form a...
- deposits. It
occurs with
native mercury, amalgam, cinnabar,
mercurian tetrahedrite, eglestonite, terlinguaite, montroydite, kleinite, moschelite, kadyrelite...
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formed in
hydrothermal deposits. It
forms one
solid solution series with
tetrahedrite and
another with argentotennantite.
Freibergite is an opaque, metallic...
- in 1845 for
Austrian mineralogist Ignaz von Born.
Cuprite Tennantite Tetrahedrite List of
minerals named after people Warr, L.N. (2021). "IMA–CNMNC approved...
- been
found as a pseudomorph,
taking the
crystal structure of galena,
tetrahedrite,
barite and calcite.
Sphalerite can have
Spinel Law twins,
where the...
- the
Sweet Home Mine, with
golden striated cubes intergrown with
minor tetrahedrite, on a bed of
transparent quartz needles Radiating form of
pyrite Paraspirifer...
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temperature hydrothermal vein deposits. It
commonly occurs with galena,
tetrahedrite, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, pyrite, stibnite, zinkenite, siderite, quartz...
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Chalcocite Cu2S 79.8
Covellite CuS 66.5
Bornite 2Cu2S·CuS·FeS 63.3
Tetrahedrite Cu3SbS3 + x(Fe,Zn)6Sb2S9 32–45
Digenite Cu9S5 78.1
Malachite CuCO3•Cu(OH)2...
