moschellandsbergite

Moschellandsbergite is a rare isometric mineral made up of a silver-white amalgam of mercury and silver with the chemical makeup Ag2Hg3.

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Mineral.name: Moschellandsbergite
Mineral.category: Metals and intermetallic alloys
Mineral.image: Moschellandsbergite-21591.jpg
Mineral.imagesize: 260px
Mineral.formula: silver amalgam, Ag2Hg3
Mineral.IMAsymbol: Mlb
Mineral.strunz: 1.AD.15d
Mineral.system: Isometric
Mineral.class: Tetartoidal (23) (same H-M symbol)
Mineral.symmetry: I23
Mineral.unit cell: a = 10.04 Å, Z = 10
Mineral.color: white, tarnishes grey
Mineral.cleavage: brittle
Mineral.mohs: 3.5
Mineral.luster: metallic
Mineral.gravity: 13.48

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Commons category: Moschellandsbergite
chemical formula: Ag₂Hg₃
Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009): 1.AD.15d
Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update): 1.AD.15d
Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated): I/A.02
IMA Mineral Symbol: Mlb

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Moschellandsbergite is a rare isometric mineral made up of a silver-white amalgam of mercury and silver with the chemical makeup Ag2Hg3.

It was first described in 1938 and named after Moschellandsberg Mountain near Obermoschel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is considered a low-temperature hydrothermal mineral which occurs with metacinnabar, cinnabar, mercurian silver, tetrahedrite–tennantite, pyrite, sphalerite and chalcopyrite.