vulcanite
Sign in to saveVulcanite is a rare copper telluride mineral. The mineral has a metallic luster, and has a green or bronze-yellow tint. It has a hardness between 1 and 2 on the Mohs scale (between talc and gypsum). Its crystal structure is orthorhombic.
Key facts
- Mineral.twinning
- Common
- Mineral.name
- Vulcanite
- Mineral.category
- Telluride mineral
- Mineral.image
- Vulcanite.png
- Mineral.caption
- Vulcanite from Good Hope Mine, Colorado, U.S.
- Mineral.formula
- CuTe
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Vul
- Mineral.strunz
- 2.CB.75
- Mineral.color
- Pale to yellow bronze
- Mineral.habit
- Massive, granular, tabular
- Mineral.system
- Orthorhombic
- Mineral.class
- Dipyramidal (mmm) H-M symbol: (2/m 2/m 2/m)
- Mineral.symmetry
- Pmnm
- Mineral.cleavage
- [hk0] Good, [h0l] Indistinct
- Mineral.fracture
- Sectile – Curved shavings or scrapings produced by a knife blade
- Mineral.mohs
- 1–2
- Mineral.luster
- Metallic
- Mineral.pleochroism
- Very strong, bright yellow to blue-gray
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- Vulcanite.jpg
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- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Vul
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 2.CB.75
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 2.CB.75
- chemical formula
- CuTe
- Commons category
- Vulcanite
- Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
- II/B.15 – Anhang
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Vulcanite is a rare copper telluride mineral. The mineral has a metallic luster, and has a green or bronze-yellow tint. It has a hardness between 1 and 2 on the Mohs scale (between talc and gypsum). Its crystal structure is orthorhombic.
Vulcanite is named for the place where it was discovered in 1961, the Mammoth Good Hope Mine in Vulcan (ghost town and district), Gunnison County, Colorado. Small deposits have also been discovered in Japan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Norway. It occurs with native tellurium, rickardite, petzite, and sylvanite.