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Native Mercury & Mercurian Tetrahedrite

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Native Mercury & Mercurian Tetrahedrite

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Description
Locality: 
Schwaz District, Tyrol, Tyrol, Austria
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.5 × 5 × 4.8 cm
Description

Three fitting, adjoining pieces contaning mercury-bearing tetrahedrite (schwazite, quecksilber-fahlerz) and on all several droplets of native mercury. From Schwaz district, Tyrol, Austria. Size given for all three specimens together.

Ex collection Loorz.

Loorz was a district steiger of Bockswiese, Harz Mts. The labels of his collection range from 1880 to 1960.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Mercury

Formula: 
Hg
Strunz: 
1.AD.05
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
0.0
Colour: 
Tin white

Mercurian Tetrahedrite

Variety Of: 

Tetrahedrite

Formula: 
Cu6[Cu4(Fe,Zn)2]Sb4S13
Strunz: 
2.GB.05
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Formula: 
(Cu,Hg)12Sb4S13
Hardness: 
0.0
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native mercury and tetrahedrite from Schwaz, Tirol / our insta: @weloveminerals

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