algodonite
Sign in to saveAlgodonite is a copper arsenide mineral with formula: Cu6As. It is a gray white metallic mineral crystallizing in the hexagonal system. It has a Mohs hardness of 4 and a specific gravity of 8.38 – 8.72.
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- Mineral.name
- Algodonite
- Mineral.image
- Algodonit - Houghton County, Michigan, USA.jpg
- Mineral.imagesize
- 260
- Mineral.caption
- Algodonite – Houghton County, Michigan, US
- Mineral.category
- Sulfide mineral
- Mineral.formula
- Cu6As
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Ago
- Mineral.molweight
- 456.2 g/mol
- Mineral.strunz
- 2.AA.10a
- Mineral.system
- Hexagonal
- Mineral.class
- Dihexagonal dipyramidal (6/mmm) H-M symbol: (6/m 2/m 2/m)
- Mineral.symmetry
- P63/mmc
- Mineral.unit cell
- a = 2.6, c = 4.228 [Å]; Z = 2
- Mineral.color
- Gray, silver white, steel gray, tarnishes dull bronze
- Mineral.habit
- Massive, granular. Common texture observed in granite and other igneous rock
- Mineral.fracture
- Sub-conchoidal
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- Algodonit - Houghton County, Michigan, USA.jpg
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- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 2.AA.10a
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- Algodonite
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 2.AA.10a
- IMA Mineral Symbol
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- chemical formula
- Cu₁₋ₓAsₓ (x ~0.15)
- Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
- II/A’.01
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Algodonite is a copper arsenide mineral with formula: Cu6As. It is a gray white metallic mineral crystallizing in the hexagonal system. It has a Mohs hardness of 4 and a specific gravity of 8.38 – 8.72.
It was first described in 1857 from the Algodones silver mine, Coquimbo, Chile.
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