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Hessite

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Description
Locality: 
Trixie Mine, East Tintic District, Utah County, Utah, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.7 × 1 × 1.1 cm
Description

A nice specimen of black crystalline crusts of Hessite on Quartz, from the Trixie Mine, in Utah.  Hessite is a rare Silver Telluride mineral.  

An unidentified green mineral is also present, possibly Dugganite, which is often found associated with Hessite at this mine.  The first image shows what may be a very tiny speck of Native Gold.

 

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Hessite

Formula: 
Ag2Te
Strunz: 
2.BA.60
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Streak: 
black
Type Locality: 
Koz'modem'yanskii shaft, Second Zavodinskii Mine (Second Sawodinsk Mine), Zyryanovsk Rayon, Altai Mts (Rudnyi Altai), Eastern Kazakhstan Province (Shyghys Qazaqstan Oblysy; Vostochno-Kazakhstanskaya Oblast'), Kazakhstan...

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