sartorite
Sign in to saveSartorite is a lead arsenic sulfide with the chemical formula PbAs2S4 and as type locality the Lengenbach Quarry in Legenbach, Binnental, Valais, Switzerland. Historically, sartorite has been thought isomorphic to chalcostibite, emplectite, and zinckenite, but was definitively distinguished from the others in 1939.
Key facts
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- boxwidth
- Mineral.name
- Sartorite
- Mineral.image
- Sartorite-291300.jpg
- Mineral.imagesize
- 260
- Mineral.category
- Satorite Group
- Mineral.formula
- PbAs2S4
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Sat
- Mineral.strunz
- 2.HC.05a
- Mineral.dana
- 3.7.8.1
- Mineral.system
- Monoclinic
- Mineral.class
- Prismatic
- Mineral.symmetry
- P21/c (no. 14)
- Mineral.unit cell
- 648.62 ų
- Mineral.colour
- Grey
- Mineral.cleavage
- Imperfect/Fair
- Mineral.fracture
- Conchoidal
- Mineral.tenacity
- Very brittle
- Mineral.mohs
- 3
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Sartorite is a lead arsenic sulfide with the chemical formula PbAs2S4 and as type locality the Lengenbach Quarry in Legenbach, Binnental, Valais, Switzerland. Historically, sartorite has been thought isomorphic to chalcostibite, emplectite, and zinckenite, but was definitively distinguished from the others in 1939.
== Etymology == The mineral is named after its discoverer, Sartorius von Walterhausen (1809-1876).
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