volynskite
Sign in to saveVolynskite (), is a rare hydrothermal mineral of the sulfide class (the group), that forms microscopic grains in related minerals, which in composition is a complex bismuth-silver telluride with the calculated formula AgBiTe2.
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- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
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- chemical formula
- AgBiTe₂
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 2.JA.20
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Vol
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- II/B.12
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Volynskite (), is a rare hydrothermal mineral of the sulfide class (the group), that forms microscopic grains in related minerals, which in composition is a complex bismuth-silver telluride with the calculated formula AgBiTe2.
Volynskite was first discovered and identified between 1960 and 1965 by Marianna Bezsmertnaya and Lada Soboleva who observed thin sections among closely related tellurides in the territory of the Zod gold deposit. It was named in honor of the late professor of mineralogy and head of the mineralogy department at the , Igor Volynsky, who had died suddenly in September 1962.
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