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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.

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Mineral.name
Stromeyerite
Mineral.image
Stromeyerite-352225.jpg
Mineral.imagesize
260px
Mineral.category
Sulfide minerals
Mineral.formula
AgCuS
Mineral.IMAsymbol
Smy
Mineral.strunz
2.BA.40
Mineral.system
Orthorhombic
Mineral.class
Dipyramidal (mmm) H-M symbol: (2/m 2/m 2/m)
Mineral.symmetry
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
Commons category
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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