Rickardita
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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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- sulfide class of minerals
- Image
- Rickardite-D10104b.jpg
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- Commons category
- Rickardite
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 2.BA.30
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 2.BA.20a
- streak color
- red
- crystal system
- orthorhombic crystal system
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Rkd
- chemical formula
- Cu₃₋ₓTe₂
- Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
- II/A.02 – Anhang
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La rickardita es un mineral de la clase de los minerales sulfuros. Fue descubierta en 1903 en una mina del condado de Gunnison, en el estado de Colorado (EE. UU.), siendo nombrada así en honor de Thomas Arthur Rickard, ingeniero de minas estadounidense.
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