Laurita
Sign in to saveLaurite is an opaque black, metallic ruthenium sulfide mineral with formula: RuS2. It crystallizes in the isometric system. It is in the pyrite structural group. Though it's been found in many localities worldwide, it is extremely rare.
Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Laurite
- Mineral.image
- Laurite.jpg
- Mineral.struct image
- Kristallstruktur Pyrit.png
- Mineral.struct caption
- Crystal structure of Laurite S Ru
- Mineral.category
- Sulfide mineral
- Mineral.formula
- RuS2
- Mineral.strunz
- 2.EB.05a
- Mineral.system
- Cubic
- Mineral.class
- Diploidal (m) H-M symbol: (P 2/m )
- Mineral.symmetry
- Pa
- Mineral.unit cell
- a = 5.61 Å; Z = 4
- Mineral.color
- Iron-black; white to gray or bluish in polished section
- Mineral.habit
- As octahedral, cubic, and pyritohedral crystals or as rounded grains and inclusions
- Mineral.cleavage
- Perfect on {111}
- Mineral.fracture
- Subconchoidal
- Mineral.tenacity
- Brittle
- Mineral.mohs
- 7.5
- Mineral.luster
- Metallic
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Article · Español
La laurita es un mineral de la clase de los minerales sulfuros, y dentro de esta pertenece al llamado "grupo de la pirita". Fue descubierta en 1866 en la provincia de Borneo Meridional (Indonesia), siendo nombrado así por su descubridor como cumplimiento a la esposa de un amigo.
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