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Collectors Summary

Color grau
Lustre Metallglanz
Hardness (Mohs) 3.5
Crystal System monoklin, Pm, P2/m

Chemism

Chemical formula

Ag9SbTe3S3

Chemical composition

Antimon, Silber, Tellur, Schwefel

Unit weight: 1571.57958 u; Number of atoms in the formula: 16

Info

Empirical formula:

Ag9SbTe3S3

Element

Symbol

Weight%

Atoms

Atoms%

Atom weight (u)

Sum weight (u)

Sulfur

S

6.12

3

18.75

32.0655000

96.1965000

Silver

Ag

61.77

9

56.25

107.8682200

970.8139800

Antimony

Sb

7.75

1

6.25

121.7601000

121.7601000

Tellurium

Te

24.36

3

18.75

127.6030000

382.8090000

Analysis wt%

Ag : 61.06, Sb : 7.66, Te : 24.08, S : 5.26, Se : 1.94 (Ref: Zapiski Vsesoyuznogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva, 1904-1974 92)

Strunz 9th edition incl. updates

2.LA.55

2: Sulfide und Sulfosalze (Sulfide, Selenide, Telluride, Arsenide, Antimonide, Bismutide, Sulfarsenite, Sulfantimonite, Sulfbismuthite)
L: unklassifizierte Sulfosalze
A: ohne nennenswertes Pb (Blei)
55:Tsnigriit-Gruppe

Lapis Classification

II/B.05-075

II: SULFIDE UND SULFOSALZE (Sulfide, Selenide, Telluride, Arsenide, Antimonide, Bismutide)
B: Sulfide, Selenide und Telluride mit Verhältnis Metall : S,Se,Te > 1:1
5: Sulfide, Selenide und Telluride mit vorwiegend Kupfer und Silber/Gold

Classification by Hölzel

2.BA.680

2: SULFIDES
B: Sulfides (etc) with Me/S > 1/1 (mostly 2/1)
A: With Cu,Ag,Au
6: Henryite-Hessite-Group (with Te)

Dana 8th edition

03.01.12.01

03: Sulfides - Sulfosalts
01: Sulfides - Sulfosalts where z/y > 4 - (A+)i (A++)j [By Cz], A=metals, B=semi-metals, C=non-metals

IMA status

Anerkannt von der CNMNC

Mineral status

anerkanntes Mineral

Optical Properties

Color

grau

Diaphaneity (Transparency)

opak

Lustre

Metallglanz

Crystallography

Crystal System

monoklin

Class (H-M)

m, 2/m

Space Group number

6, 10

Space Group

Pm, P2/m

Cell parameters a (Å)

8.900

Cell parameters b (Å)

8.302

Cell parameters c (Å)

19.49

Cell parameters a/b or c/a

1.072

Cell parameters c/b

2.348

Cell parameters α

90°

Cell parameters β

82.98

Cell parameters γ

90°

Z

4

Volume (ų)

1429.278

X-Ray Powder Diffraction

3.82(60),
3.14(20),
3.02(20),
2.89(40),
2.83(40),
2.22(100),
2.14(30),
2.13(40)

XRD chart Tsnigriite

Calculated from d-spacing and intensity at 0.1541838 nm (Cu)

Physical Properties

Hardness (Mohs)

3.5

VHN (Hardness Vickers)

125 (20g)

Density (g/cm³)

7.38

7.303 ( ρ calc. Mineralienatlas )

Preface

Author (Name, Year)

Sandomirskaya & Arifulov & Botova & Mozgova & Nenasheva & Tsepin & Siv

References

CNMNC Newsletter No. 50; Mineralogical Magazine, 31 [Formel]

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CNMNC (IMA)-Number

IMA 1991-051

CNMNC symbol

Symbol

Tng

Locations with GPS information

IDs

GUSID (Global unique identifier short form) TK9itrZG-UiiFDdF4Ps8TA
GUID (Global unique identifier) B662AF4C-46B6-48F9-A214-3745E0FB3C4C
Database ID 3926