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Aktashite

Summary

Aktashite is a rare arsenic sulfosalt mineral with formula Cu6Hg3As4S12. It is a copper mercury-bearing sulfosalt and is the only sulfosalt mineral with essential Cu and Hg yet known. It is of hydrothermal origin. It was published without approval of the IMA-CNMNC, but recognized as valid species by the IMA-CNMNC Sulfosalts Subcommittee (2008).[2][3][4][5][6]

Aktashite
Gray aktashite is richly dispersed on matrix
General
CategorySulfosalt
Formula
(repeating unit)		Cu6Hg3As4S12
IMA symbolAts[1]
Strunz classification2.GA.30
Crystal systemTrigonal
Crystal classPyramidal (3)
H-M symbol: (3)
Space groupR3
Identification
Formula mass1667.51 g/mol
References[2][3]

References edit

  1. ^ Warr, L.N. (2021). "IMA–CNMNC approved mineral symbols". Mineralogical Magazine. 85 (3): 291–320. Bibcode:2021MinM...85..291W. doi:10.1180/mgm.2021.43. S2CID 235729616.
  2. ^ a b http://www.mindat.org/min-74.html Mindat
  3. ^ a b http://www.handbookofmineralogy.org/pdfs/aktashite.pdf Archived 2022-07-09 at the Wayback Machine Handbook of Mineralogy
  4. ^ Fleischer, Michael (1973). "New Mineral Names" (PDF). American Mineralogist. 58: 562.
  5. ^ Fleischer, Michael (1971). "New Mineral Names" (PDF). American Mineralogist. 56: 358–359.
  6. ^ Gruzdev, V. S.; Chernitsova, N. M.; Shumkova, N. G. (1972). "Aktashite, Cu6Hg3As4S12, new data". Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR (in Russian). 206: 694–697.