stromeyerite
Sign in to saveStromeyerite or copper-silver glance is a sulfide mineral of copper and silver, with the chemical formula AgCuS. It forms opaque blue grey to dark blue orthorhombic crystals.
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- Stromeyerite
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- Sulfide minerals
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- AgCuS
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- Smy
- Mineral.strunz
- 2.BA.40
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- Orthorhombic
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- Dipyramidal (mmm) H-M symbol: (2/m 2/m 2/m)
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- Cmcm
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- Stromeyerite - Magma Mine, Broken Hill, Pinal County, Arizona, USA.jpg
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- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 2.BA.25a
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 2.BA.40
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- Stromeyerite
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Smy
- chemical formula
- CuAgS
- Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
- II/A.04
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Stromeyerite or copper-silver glance is a sulfide mineral of copper and silver, with the chemical formula AgCuS. It forms opaque blue grey to dark blue orthorhombic crystals.
It was discovered in 1832 in Central Bohemia Region, Czech Republic, and named after the German chemist, Friedrich Stromeyer who performed the first analysis of the mineral.
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