Calaverite, or gold telluride, is an uncommon telluride of gold, a metallic mineral with the chemical formula AuTe2, with approximately 3% of the gold...
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Au3Te5 is a superconductor at 1.62 K. Gold telluride minerals, such as calaverite and krennerite (AuTe2), petzite (Ag3AuTe2), and sylvanite (AgAuTe2), are...
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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...
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and Strunz mineral classification systems. Examples include: altaite calaverite coloradoite empressite hessite kostovite krennerite melonite merenskyite...
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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...
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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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elemental) form, but is more often found as the tellurides of gold such as calaverite and krennerite (two different polymorphs of AuTe2), petzite, Ag3AuTe2...
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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...
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gold ore from Cripple Creek, Colorado. Roasting has driven off the tellurium from the original calaverite, leaving behind vesicular blebs of native gold....
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rare mineral from among the gold tellurides, close to krennerite and calaverite, in composition it is a mixed polymetallic plumbo-telluride of gold with...
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commonly associated with native gold, hessite, sylvanite, krennerite, calaverite, altaite, montbrayite, melonite, frohbergite, tetradymite, rickardite...
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Sztrokayite* 02.E Metal Sulfides, M:S £1:2 02.EA M:S = 1:2: 05 Sylvanite, 10 Calaverite; 15 Krennerite, 15 Kostovite; 20 Berndtite, 20 Merenskyite, 20 Melonite...
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Melonite and Calaverite, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia. Melonite is a rare nickel telluride. This is a showy, solid foliated mass of lustrous...
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Cadmium Cadmoindite Cadmoselite Cadwaladerite Cafarsite Cafetite Cahnite Calaverite Calciborite Calcite Calderite Caledonite Calomel Calumetite Campigliaite...
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nuggets. Gold sometimes occurs combined with tellurium as the minerals calaverite, krennerite, nagyagite, petzite and sylvanite (see telluride minerals)...
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77Ag0.24]Te2). Both of the chemically similar gold-silver tellurides, calaverite and sylvanite, are in the monoclinic crystal system, whereas krennerite...
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compositions. He wrote papers on the structure of the gold telluride mineral calaverite (AuTe2); and he described the new copper-zinc oxychloride mineral paratacamite...
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some telluride minerals. These include natural gold tellurides, like calaverite and krennerite (AuTe2), and sylvanite (AgAuTe4). They are minor ores of...
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minerals. For example, pyrite (FeS2) is an iron ore, and the rare mineral calaverite is the ditelluride (Au, Ag)Te2. Although all group 16 elements of the...
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Cassagnaite Csg Chestermanite Csm Clinojimthompsonite Cjim Crocoite Crc Calaverite Clv Cassedanneite Cda Chevkinite-(Ce) Cvk-Ce Clinokurchatovite Ckht Cronstedtite...
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tellurium, sylvanite, petzite, rickardite, native sulfur, native gold, calaverite and krennerite. It was first described in 1927 for an occurrence in the...
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Sisters are named after minerals kermesite, berthierite, petzite and calaverite. The Boule Brothers do not follow this pattern; instead, they are named...
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California, USA Calaveras Skull, a human skull discovered in Calaveras County Calaverite All pages with titles beginning with Calaveras All pages with titles containing...
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colour) embedded in rock minerals. Other forms of gold are the minerals calaverite (AuTe), aurostibnite (AuSb2), and maldonite (Au2Bi). These latter three...
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gold, proustite, rhodochrosite, arsenopyrite, sphalerite, tetrahedrite, calaverite, tellurobismuthite, galena and pyrite. Nagyágite, Mindat.org, retrieved...
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they are disulphide (pyrite), diarsenide (sperrylite) or ditellurides (calaverite and moncheite) minerals, which are particularly resistant to iodine oxidation...
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frohbergite has been reliably identified. Tellurides Avicennite Djerfisherite Calaverite Krennerite Bezsmertnovite Volynskite Bilibinskite Nagyágite Frohbergite...
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b) aperiodic structures in the mineral kingdom (melilite, fresnoite, calaverite, natrite, muthmannite, pearceite-polybasite, icosahedrite, decagonite);...
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they are disulphide (pyrite), diarsenide (sperrylite) or ditellurides (calaverite and moncheite) minerals, which are particularly resistant to iodine oxidation...
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is found in large quantities in ores made up of intergrown tellurium, calaverite or sylvanite, melonite and altaite, as anhedral grains either enclosed...
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