Sulfosalt minerals are sulfide minerals with the general formula AmBnXp, where A represents a metal such as copper, lead, silver, iron, and rarely mercury...
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Proustite (category Sulfosalt minerals)
Proustite is a sulfosalt mineral consisting of silver sulfarsenide, Ag3AsS3, known also as ruby blende, light red silver, arsenic-silver blende or ruby...
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surrounding rock. Older specimens could be either boulangerite, jamesonite or zinkenite (Pb2Sb2S5, sulfosalt mineral). Webmineral Mindat Mineralienatlas v t e...
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Zinkenite (category Sulfosalt minerals)
Zinkenite is a steel-gray metallic sulfosalt mineral composed of lead antimony sulfide Pb9Sb22S42. Zinkenite occurs as acicular needle-like crystals....
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Tennantite (category Sulfosalt minerals)
Tennantite is a copper arsenic sulfosalt mineral with an ideal formula Cu12As4S13. Due to variable substitution of the copper by iron and zinc the formula...
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the antimonides, the bismuthinides, the sulfarsenides and the sulfosalts. Sulfide minerals are inorganic compounds. Common or important examples include:...
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Aktashite (category Sulfosalt minerals)
a rare arsenic sulfosalt mineral with formula Cu6Hg3As4S12. It is a copper mercury-bearing sulfosalt and is the only sulfosalt mineral with essential...
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Freibergite (category Sulfosalt minerals)
Freibergite is a complex sulfosalt mineral of silver, copper, iron, antimony and arsenic with formula (Ag,Cu,Fe)12(Sb,As)4S13. It has cubic crystals and...
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Samsonite is a silver manganese antimony sulfosalt mineral with formula Ag4MnSb2S6. It crystallizes in the monoclinic crystal system with a typical slender...
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Tetrahedrite (category Sulfosalt minerals)
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...
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Enargite (category Sulfosalt minerals)
Enargite is a copper arsenic sulfosalt mineral with formula Cu3AsS4. It takes its name from the Greek word enarge, "distinct". Enargite is a steel gray...
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Bournonite (category Sulfosalt minerals)
volchite or dystomic glance (German: antimonbleikupferblende) is a sulfosalt mineral species, trithioantimoniate of lead and copper with the formula PbCuSbS3...
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Uchucchacuaite (category Sulfosalt minerals)
Uchucchacuaite (AgMnPb3Sb5S12) is a rare sulfosalt mineral found in hydrothermal deposits. It was first described in 1984 for an occurrence in the Uchucchacua...
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In geology and mineralogy, a mineral or mineral species is, broadly speaking, a solid substance with a fairly well-defined chemical composition and a specific...
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Silicate minerals are rock-forming minerals made up of silicate groups. They are the largest and most important class of minerals and make up approximately...
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Pyrargyrite (category Sulfosalt minerals)
Pyrargyrite is a sulfosalt mineral consisting of silver sulfantimonite, Ag3SbS3. Known also as dark red silver ore, ruby blende, garnete blende or ruby...
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Aleksite (category Sulfosalt minerals)
a rare lead bismuth tellurium sulfosalt mineral with formula PbBi2Te2S2. Warr, L.N. (2021). "IMA-CNMNC approved mineral symbols". Mineralogical Magazine...
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Graphite C, Chaoite C, Fullerite C60, (Diamond C, Lonsdaleite C) Sulfides, Sulfosalts, Sulfarsenates, Sulfantimonates, Selenides, Tellurides Chalcocite-Digenite...
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Gabrielite (category Sulfosalt minerals)
Gabrielite is an extremely rare thallium sulfosalt mineral with a chemical formula of Tl6Ag3Cu6(As,Sb)9S21 or Tl2AgCu2As3S7. It was first reported in...
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Lorándite (category Sulfosalt minerals)
is a thallium arsenic sulfosalt with the chemical formula: TlAsS2. Though rare, it is the most common thallium-bearing mineral. Lorandite occurs in low-temperature...
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Routhierite (category Sulfosalt minerals)
Routhierite is a rare thallium sulfosalt mineral with formula Tl(Cu,Ag)(Hg,Zn)2(As,Sb)2S6. It was first described in 1974 for an occurrence in the Jas...
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Galkhaite (category Sulfosalt minerals)
chemically complex sulfosalt mineral from a group of natural thioarsenites. Its formula is (Cs,Tl)(Hg,Cu,Zn)6(As,Sb)4S12, making the mineral the only known...
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Fettelite (category Sulfosalt minerals)
also known as sanguinite, is a mercury-sulfosalt mineral with the chemical formula Ag16HgAs4S15. The mineral was first described by Wang and Paniagua...
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Stephanite (category Sulfosalt minerals)
Stephanite is a silver antimony sulfosalt mineral with formula: Ag5SbS4. It is composed of 68.8% silver, and sometimes is of importance as an ore of this...
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Hutchinsonite (category Sulfosalt minerals)
Hutchinsonite is a sulfosalt mineral of thallium, arsenic and lead with formula (Tl,Pb)2As5S9. Hutchinsonite is a rare hydrothermal mineral. It was first discovered...
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Cylindrite (category Sulfosalt minerals)
Cylindrite is a sulfosalt mineral containing tin, lead, antimony and iron with formula: Pb3Sn4FeSb2S14. It forms triclinic pinacoidal crystals which often...
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Hendekasartorite (category Sulfosalt minerals)
Hendekasartorite is a very rare thallium sulfosalt mineral with formula Tl2Pb48As82S172. It is one of recently approved new members of sartorite homologous...
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Jamesonite (category Sulfosalt minerals)
domingite, comuccite, pfaffite, gray antimony or feather ore): 24 is a sulfosalt mineral, a lead, iron, antimony sulfide with formula Pb4FeSb6S14. With the...
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Andorite (category Sulfosalt minerals)
Andorite is a sulfosalt mineral with the chemical formula PbAgSb3S6. It was first described in 1892 for an occurrence in the Baia Sprie mine, Baia Sprie...
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Polybasite (category Sulfosalt minerals)
Polybasite is a sulfosalt mineral of silver, copper, antimony and arsenic. Its chemical formula is [(Ag,Cu)6(Sb,As)2S7][Ag9CuS4]. It forms black monoclinic...
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