uytenbogaardtite
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The mineral uytenbogaardtite, Ag3AuS2, is a soft, greyish white sulfide mineral, occurring in hydrothermal Au-Ag-quartz veins. It occurs as tiny crystals, visible only with a microscope. It has a metallic luster and a hardness on the Mohs scale of 2 (gypsum).
Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Uytenbogaardtite
- Mineral.category
- Sulfide mineral
- Mineral.image
- Uytenbogaardtite.jpg
- Mineral.imagesize
- 260px
- Mineral.caption
- Uytenbogaardtite, from New Bullfrog Mine, Nye County, Nevada, United States of America
- Mineral.formula
- Ag3AuS2
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Uyt
- Mineral.molweight
- 584.70 g/mol
- Mineral.strunz
- 2.BA.40b
- Mineral.color
- Greyish white
- Mineral.habit
- Microscopic crystals
- Mineral.system
- Trigonal
- Mineral.class
- Ditrigonal pyramidal (3m) H-M symbol: (3m)
- Mineral.symmetry
- R3c
- Mineral.fracture
- Irregular
- Mineral.tenacity
- Malleable
- Mineral.mohs
- 2
- Mineral.luster
- Metallic
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- sulfide class of minerals
- Image
- Uytenbogaardtite.jpg
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- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 2.BA.40b
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 2.BA.75
- crystal system
- trigonal crystal system
- chemical formula
- Ag₃AuS₂
- Commons category
- Uytenbogaardtite
- type locality (geology)
- Zmeinogorsky District
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Uyt
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The mineral uytenbogaardtite, Ag3AuS2, is a soft, greyish white sulfide mineral, occurring in hydrothermal Au-Ag-quartz veins. It occurs as tiny crystals, visible only with a microscope. It has a metallic luster and a hardness on the Mohs scale of 2 (gypsum).
It forms, together with petzite (Ag3AuTe2) and fischesserite (Ag3AuSe2) the uytenbogaardtite group. The type locality is Tambang Sawah, Bengkulu district, Sumatra island, Indonesia.
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