پتزیت
Sign in to saveThe mineral petzite, Ag3AuTe2, is a soft, steel-gray telluride mineral generally deposited by hydrothermal activity. It forms isometric crystals, and is usually associated with rare tellurium and gold minerals, often with silver, mercury, and copper.
Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Petzite
- Mineral.category
- telluride mineral
- Mineral.image
- Petzite.jpg
- Mineral.caption
- Petzite with quartz – Sacarîmb, Nagyág, Romania
- Mineral.formula
- Ag3AuTe2
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Ptz
- Mineral.strunz
- 2.BA.40a
- Mineral.system
- Cubic
- Mineral.class
- Gyroidal (432) (same H-M symbol)
- Mineral.symmetry
- I4132
- Mineral.color
- Steel-gray to iron-black, commonly tarnished from bronze-yellow to sooty black; grayish white with a pale bluish tint in polished section
- Mineral.habit
- Granular to massive
- Mineral.fracture
- Subconchoidal irregular
- Mineral.tenacity
- Slightly sectile to brittle.
- Mineral.mohs
- 2.5 – 3
- Mineral.luster
- Metallic
- Mineral.streak
- Grayish black
- Mineral.diaphaneity
- Opaque
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- sulfide class of minerals
- Image
- Petzite.jpg
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- Commons category
- Petzite
- chemical formula
- Ag₃AuTe₂
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 2.BA.40a
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 2.BA.75
- type locality (geology)
- Săcărâmb
- crystal system
- cubic crystal system
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Ptz
- Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
- II/A.03
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