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Definition of Tetrahedrite

Tetrahedrite
Tetrahedrite Tet`ra*he"drite, n. [So called because the crystals of the species are commonly tetrahedrons.] (Min.) A sulphide of antimony and copper, with small quantities of other metals. It is a very common ore of copper, and some varieties yield a considerable presentage of silver. Called also gray copper ore, fahlore, and panabase.

Meaning of Tetrahedrite from wikipedia

- Tetrahedrite is a copper antimony sulfosalt mineral with formula: (Cu,Fe) 12Sb 4S 13. It is the antimony endmember of the continuous solid solution series...
- 5 Chalcocite Cu2S 79.8 Covellite CuS 66.5 Bornite 2Cu2S·CuS·FeS 63.3 Tetrahedrite Cu3SbS3 + x(Fe,Zn)6Sb2S9 32–45 Digenite Cu9S5 78.1 Malachite CuCO3•Cu(OH)2...
- sulfosalts, mostly the series between tennantite (Cu6[Cu4(Fe,Zn)2]As4S13 and tetrahedrite (Cu6[Cu4(Fe,Zn)2]Sb4S13. It comes from the German word for pale, fahl...
- steel-gray, iron-gray or black in color. A closely related mineral, tetrahedrite (Cu12Sb4S13) has antimony substituting for ****nic and the two form a...
- from Sweet Home Mine, Alma, Colorado, U.S. Rhodochrosite with fluorite, tetrahedrite and quartz. Rhodochrosite from Silverton, Colorado, U.S. The Alma King...
- deposits. It occurs with native mercury, amalgam, cinnabar, mercurian tetrahedrite, eglestonite, terlinguaite, montroydite, kleinite, moschelite, kadyrelite...
- in 1845 for Austrian mineralogist Ignaz von Born. Cuprite Tennantite Tetrahedrite List of minerals named after people Warr, L.N. (2021). "IMA–CNMNC approved...
- (K-Ar on adularia). The most important economic minerals are tennantite‐tetrahedrite (containing most of the silver), sphalerite, galena, and chalcopyrite...
- formed in hydrothermal deposits. It forms one solid solution series with tetrahedrite and another with argentotennantite. Freibergite is an opaque, metallic...
- the Sweet Home Mine, with golden striated cubes intergrown with minor tetrahedrite, on a bed of transparent quartz needles Radiating form of pyrite Paraspirifer...