Hessite R070445


Name: Hessite
RRUFF ID: R070445
Ideal Chemistry: Ag2Te
Locality: Klondike mine, Findley Gulch (Findlay Gulch), Bonanza District, Saguache County, Colorado, USA
Source: Michael Scott S104392 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Tarnished lead-gray massive polished and embedded in epoxy
Status: The identification of this mineral is not yet confirmed.
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CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R070445.2
Sample Description: Microprobe Fragment
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
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RRUFF ID: R070445
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW
REFERENCES for Hessite

American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record]

Anthony J W, Bideaux R A, Bladh K W, and Nichols M C (1990) Handbook of Mineralogy, Mineral Data Publishing, Tucson Arizona, USA, by permission of the Mineralogical Society of America. [view file]

Fröbel J (1843) 4. Zunft: Monotrimetrische Pyritoïden. 1. Familie: Pyrrhotinen. Hessit, in Grundzüge eines Systemes der Krystallologie oder der Naturgeschichte der Unorganischen Individuen Druck und Verlag des Literarischen Comptoirs Zürich und Winterthur 48-50   [view file]

Silliman B (1867) Note on three new localities of tellurium minerals in California, and on some mineralogical features of the mother vein, Proceedings of the California Academy of Natural Sciences, 3, 378-382   [view file]

Genth F A (1868) Contributions to mineralogy - No. VII, American Journal of Science and Arts, 95, 305-321   [view file]

Ramsdell L S (1925) The crystal structure of some metallic sulfides, American Mineralogist, 10, 281-304   [view file]

Thompson R M (1949) The telluride minerals and their occurrence in Canada, American Mineralogist, 34, 342-382   [view file]

Frueh A J (1959) The structure of hessite, Ag2Te-III, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 112, 44-52   [view file]

Cabri L J (1965) Phase relations in the Au-Ag-Te system and their mineralogical significance, Economic Geology, 60, 1569-1606

Stone W E, Fleet M E, Crocket J H, Kingston D M (1992) Platinum-group minerals in pyroxenite from the Boston Creek flow basaltic komatiite, Abitibi greenstone belt, Ontario, The Canadian Mineralogist, 30, 109-119   [view file]

Schneider J, Schulz H (1993) X-ray powder diffraction of Ag2Te at temperatures up to 1123 K, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 203, 1-15   [view file]

Roth P (2007) Hessite, in Minerals first discovered in Switzerland and minerals named after Swiss individuals Kristallografik Verlag Achberg Germany 186-187