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Coloradoite, the Glossary

Coloradoite, also known as mercury telluride (HgTe), is a rare telluride ore associated with metallic deposit (especially gold and silver).^[1]

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Mercury(II) minerals
Minerals described in 1877
Minerals in space group 216
Telluride minerals

Aggregate (geology)

In the Earth sciences, aggregate has three possible meanings.

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Angstrom

The angstrom is a unit of length equal to m; that is, one ten-billionth of a metre, a hundred-millionth of a centimetre, 0.1 nanometre, or 100 picometres.

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Aqua regia

Aqua regia (from Latin, "regal water" or "royal water") is a mixture of nitric acid and hydrochloric acid, optimally in a molar ratio of 1:3.

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The Archean Eon (also spelled Archaean or Archæan), in older sources sometimes called the Archaeozoic, is the second of the four geologic eons of Earth's history, preceded by the Hadean Eon and followed by the Proterozoic.

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Binary phase

In materials chemistry, a binary phase or binary compound is a chemical compound containing two different elements.

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Calaverite

Calaverite, or gold telluride, is an uncommon telluride of gold, a metallic mineral with the chemical formula AuTe2, with approximately 3% of the gold replaced by silver. Coloradoite and Calaverite are telluride minerals.

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Colorado

Colorado (other variants) is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

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Covalent bond

A covalent bond is a chemical bond that involves the sharing of electrons to form electron pairs between atoms.

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Cripple Creek, Colorado

Cripple Creek is a statutory city that is the county seat of Teller County, Colorado, United States.

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Cubic crystal system

In crystallography, the cubic (or isometric) crystal system is a crystal system where the unit cell is in the shape of a cube.

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Diabase

Diabase, also called dolerite or microgabbro, is a mafic, holocrystalline, subvolcanic rock equivalent to volcanic basalt or plutonic gabbro.

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Facies

In geology, a facies (same pronunciation and spelling in the plural) is a body of rock with distinctive characteristics.

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Fracture

Fracture is the appearance of a crack or complete separation of an object or material into two or more pieces under the action of stress.

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Frederick Augustus Genth

Frederick Augustus Ludwig Karl Wilhelm Genth (May 17, 1820 – February 2, 1893) was a German-American chemist, specializing in analytical chemistry and mineralogy.

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Fredericksburg, Virginia

Fredericksburg is an independent city in Virginia, United States.

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Gold

Gold is a chemical element; it has symbol Au (from the Latin word aurum) and atomic number 79. Coloradoite and Gold are cubic minerals.

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Greenschist

Greenschists are metamorphic rocks that formed under the lowest temperatures and pressures usually produced by regional metamorphism, typically and 2–10 kilobars.

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Hardness

In materials science, hardness (antonym: softness) is a measure of the resistance to plastic deformation, such as an indentation (over an area) or a scratch (linear), induced mechanically either by pressing or abrasion.

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Hermann–Mauguin notation

In geometry, Hermann–Mauguin notation is used to represent the symmetry elements in point groups, plane groups and space groups.

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Isostructural

Isostructural chemical compounds have similar chemical structures.

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Kalgoorlie

Kalgoorlie is a city in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia, located east-northeast of Perth at the end of the Great Eastern Highway.

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Kirkland Lake

Kirkland Lake is a town and municipality in Timiskaming District of Northeastern Ontario.

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Lakeshore, Ontario

Lakeshore is a municipality on Lake St. Clair, in Essex County, Ontario, Canada.

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Lustre (mineralogy)

Lustre (British English) or luster (American English; see spelling differences) is the way light interacts with the surface of a crystal, rock, or mineral.

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Mercury telluride

Mercury telluride (HgTe) is a binary chemical compound of mercury and tellurium.

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Metallic bonding is a type of chemical bonding that arises from the electrostatic attractive force between conduction electrons (in the form of an electron cloud of delocalized electrons) and positively charged metal ions.

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Nickel–Strunz classification

Nickel–Strunz classification is a scheme for categorizing minerals based upon their chemical composition, introduced by German mineralogist Karl Hugo Strunz (24 February 1910 – 19 April 2006) in his Mineralogische Tabellen (1941).

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Petzite

The mineral petzite, Ag3AuTe2, is a soft, steel-gray telluride mineral generally deposited by hydrothermal activity. Coloradoite and petzite are cubic minerals and telluride minerals.

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Precipitation (chemistry)

In an aqueous solution, precipitation is the "sedimentation of a solid material (a precipitate) from a liquid solution".

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Relative density

Relative density, also called specific gravity, is a dimensionless quantity defined as the ratio of the density (mass of a unit volume) of a substance to the density of a given reference material.

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Silver

Silver is a chemical element; it has symbol Ag (derived from Proto-Indo-European ''*h₂erǵ'')) and atomic number 47. A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it exhibits the highest electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, and reflectivity of any metal. The metal is found in the Earth's crust in the pure, free elemental form ("native silver"), as an alloy with gold and other metals, and in minerals such as argentite and chlorargyrite. Coloradoite and silver are cubic minerals.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coloradoite

Coloradoite, the Glossary

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See also

Mercury(II) minerals

Minerals described in 1877

Minerals in space group 216

Telluride minerals

References