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Moschellandsbergite

moschellandsbergite

Ag2Hg3

Moschellandsbergite: Mineral information, data and localities.

Moschellandsbergite: Mineral information, data and localities. — via www.mindat.org · Source

Overview

Moschellandsbergite is a rare isometric mineral made up of a silver-white amalgam of mercury and silver with the chemical makeup Ag2Hg3. It was first described in 1938 and named after Moschellandsberg Mountain near Obermoschel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is considered a low-temperature hydrothermal mineral which occurs with metacinnabar, cinnabar, mercurian silver, tetrahedrite–tennantite, pyrite, sphalerite and chalcopyrite.

Scientific references

  1. Moschellandsbergite — Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q419086 Link
  2. Moschellandsbergite — Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moschellandsbergite Link