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
- Mineral.boxwidth
- 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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Wikidata facts
- Has part
- sulfur
- Image
- Sartorite-tuc1053c.jpg
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- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 2.HC.05a
- Commons category
- Sartorite
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 2.HC.05a
- type locality (geology)
- Lengenbach quarry
- chemical formula
- PbAs₂S₄
- crystal system
- monoclinic crystal system
- streak color
- brown
- Mohs' hardness
- 3
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Sat
- Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
- II/D.06
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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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