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Definition of Calaverite

Calaverite
Calaverite Ca`la*ve"rite, n. (Min.) A bronze-yellow massive mineral with metallic luster; a telluride of gold; -- first found in Calaveras County California.

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- Calaverite, or gold telluride, is an uncommon telluride of gold, a metallic mineral with the chemical formula AuTe2, with approximately 3% of the gold...
- and Strunz mineral classification systems. Examples include: altaite calaverite coloradoite empressite hessite kostovite krennerite melonite merenskyite...
- Au3Te5 is a superconductor at 1.62 K. Gold telluride minerals, such as calaverite and krennerite (AuTe2), petzite (Ag3AuTe2), and sylvanite (AgAuTe2), are...
- county's first tourist attractions. The uncommon gold telluride mineral calaverite was discovered in the county in 1861 and is named for it. Mark Twain set...
- that ranges from a steely gray to almost white. It is closely related to calaverite, which is more purely gold telluride with 3% silver. Sylvanite crystallizes...
- nuggets. Gold sometimes occurs combined with tellurium as the minerals calaverite, krennerite, nagyagite, petzite and sylvanite (see telluride minerals)...
- gold ore from Cripple Cr****, Colorado. Roasting has driven off the tellurium from the original calaverite, leaving behind vesicular blebs of native gold....
- elemental) form, but is more often found as the tellurides of gold such as calaverite and krennerite (two different polymorphs of AuTe2), petzite, Ag3AuTe2...
- commonly ****ociated with native gold, hessite, sylvanite, krennerite, calaverite, altaite, montbrayite, melonite, frohbergite, tetradymite, rickardite...
- Cadmium Cadmoindite Cadmoselite Cadwaladerite Cafarsite Cafetite Cahnite Calaverite Calciborite Calcite Calderite Caledonite Calomel Calumetite Campigliaite...