rickardite
Sign in to saveRickardite is a telluride mineral, a copper telluride (Cu7Te5) or Cu3-x (x = 0 to 0.36)Te2. It was first described for an occurrence in the Good Hope Mine, Vulcan district, Gunnison County, Colorado, US, and named for mining engineer Thomas Arthur Rickard (1864–1953). It is a low temperature hydrothermal mineral that occurs associated with vulcanite, native tellurium, cameronite, petzite, sylvanite, berthierite, pyrite, arsenopyrite and bornite.
Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Rickardite
- Mineral.image
- Rickardite-D10104b.jpg
- Mineral.caption
- Rickardite on tellurium
- Mineral.category
- Telluride mineral
- Mineral.formula
- Cu7Te5
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Rkd
- Mineral.strunz
- 2.BA.30
- Mineral.system
- Orthorhombic
- Mineral.class
- Dipyramidal (mmm) H-M symbol: (2/m 2/m 2/m)
- Mineral.symmetry
- Pmmn
- Mineral.color
- Red-violet (fresh), darkens
- Mineral.luster
- Metallic
- Mineral.streak
- Red
- Mineral.diaphaneity
- Opaque
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Rickardite is a telluride mineral, a copper telluride (Cu7Te5) or Cu3-x (x = 0 to 0.36)Te2. It was first described for an occurrence in the Good Hope Mine, Vulcan district, Gunnison County, Colorado, US, and named for mining engineer Thomas Arthur Rickard (1864–1953). It is a low temperature hydrothermal mineral that occurs associated with vulcanite, native tellurium, cameronite, petzite, sylvanite, berthierite, pyrite, arsenopyrite and bornite.
==See also== List of minerals
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