briartite
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Briartite is an opaque iron-grey metallic sulfide mineral, with traces of Ga and Sn, found as inclusions in other germanium-gallium-bearing sulfides.
Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Briartite
- Mineral.formula
- Cu2(Fe,Zn)GeS4
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Btt
- Mineral.strunz
- 02.KA.10(02)
- Mineral.dana
- 2.9.2.3.(02)
- Mineral.system
- Tetragonal
- Mineral.symmetry
- 07;10
- Mineral.unit cell
- 297.46 ų
- Mineral.colour
- Gray to gray blue; Iron-grey
- Mineral.twinning
- Polysynthetic
- Mineral.mohs
- 3.5–4.5
- Mineral.luster
- Metallic; Unpolished
- Mineral.diaphaneity
- Opaque
- Mineral.gravity
- 4.337 (Calculated)
- Mineral.density
- 4.337 g/cm3 (Calculated)
- Mineral.impurities
- Ga, Sn
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- chemical formula
- Cu₂FeGeS₄
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 2.KA.10
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 2.KA.10
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Btt
- Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
- II/B.03a
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Briartite is an opaque iron-grey metallic sulfide mineral, with traces of Ga and Sn, found as inclusions in other germanium-gallium-bearing sulfides.
It was discovered at the Prince Léopold Mine, Kipushi, Shaba, Congo (Léopoldville) in 1965 by Francotte and others, and named for Gaston Briart who had studied formations at Kipushi.
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