Aktashite

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Aktashite
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Gray aktashite is richly dispersed on matrix
General
CategorySulfosalt
Formula Cu6Hg3As4S12
IMA symbol Ats [1]
Strunz classification 2.GA.30
Crystal system Trigonal
Crystal class Pyramidal (3)
H-M symbol: (3)
Space group R3
Identification
Formula mass 1667.51 g/mol
References [2] [3]

Aktashite is a rare arsenic sulfosalt mineral with formula Cu6Hg3As4S12. It is a copper mercury-bearing sulfosalt and is the only sulfosalt mineral with essential Cu and Hg yet known. It is of hydrothermal origin. It was published without approval of the IMA-CNMNC, but recognized as valid species by the IMA-CNMNC Sulfosalts Subcommittee (2008). [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

References

  1. ↑ Warr, L.N. (2021). "IMA–CNMNC approved mineral symbols". Mineralogical Magazine. 85 (3): 291–320. Bibcode:2021MinM...85..291W. doi: 10.1180/mgm.2021.43 . S2CID   235729616.
  2. 1 2 http://www.mindat.org/min-74.html Mindat
  3. 1 2 http://www.handbookofmineralogy.org/pdfs/aktashite.pdf Archived 2022-07-09 at the Wayback Machine Handbook of Mineralogy
  4. ↑ Fleischer, Michael (1973). "New Mineral Names" (PDF). American Mineralogist. 58: 562.
  5. ↑ Fleischer, Michael (1971). "New Mineral Names" (PDF). American Mineralogist. 56: 358–359.
  6. ↑ Gruzdev, V. S.; Chernitsova, N. M.; Shumkova, N. G. (1972). "Aktashite, Cu6Hg3As4S12, new data". Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR (in Russian). 206: 694–697.


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