Chemistry:Hemusite
| Hemusite | |
|---|---|
Hemusite from Kawazu mine, Japan at National Museum of Natural History, Bulgaria | |
| General | |
| Category | Sulfosalt minerals, Sulfides |
| Formula (repeating unit) | Cu6SnMoS8 |
| Strunz classification | 2.CB.35a (10 ed) 2/C.09-10 (8 ed) |
| Dana classification | 2.9.6.1 |
| Crystal system | Isometric |
| Space group | P432 (no. 207), F43m (no. 216), or Fm3m (no. 225) |
| Identification | |
| Color | gray |
| Mohs scale hardness | 4 |
| |re|er}} | metallic |
| Diaphaneity | Opaque |
| Density | 4.469 |
| Other characteristics | Georgi Ivanov Terziev |
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Hemusite is a very rare isometric gray mineral containing copper, molybdenum, sulfur, and tin with chemical formula Cu6SnMoS8.[6] It was discovered by Bulgarian mineralogist Georgi Ivanov Terziev in 1963. He also described it and named it after Haemus, the ancient name of Stara planina (Balkan) mountains in Europe. The type locality is Chelopech copper ore deposit, Bulgaria.[3] Later tiny deposits of hemusite were found in Ozernovskoe deposit, Kamchatka, Russia; Kawazu mine, Rendaiji, Shimoda city, Chūbu region, Honshu Island, Japan ; Iriki mine, Iriki, Satsuma-gun, Kagoshima Prefecture, Kyushu Region, Japan; Kochbulak deposit, Tashkent, Uzbekistan.[7] Hemusite occurs as rounded isometric grains and aggregates usually about 0.05 mm in diameter and in association with enargite, luzonite, colusite, stannoidite, renierite, tennantite, chalcopyrite, pyrite, and other minerals.
See also
- List of minerals recognized by the International Mineralogical Association
References
- ↑ Warr, L.N. (2021). "IMA–CNMNC approved mineral symbols". Mineralogical Magazine 85 (3): 291–320. doi:10.1180/mgm.2021.43. Bibcode: 2021MinM...85..291W.
- ↑ "Information about Hemusite". Webmineral Database. http://webmineral.com/data/Hemusite.shtml.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Information about Hemusite". Mindat Database. http://www.mindat.org/min-1862.html.
- ↑ "Information about Hemusite". Handbook of Mineralogy. http://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/hemusite.pdf.
- ↑ "Hemusite". RRUFF Database. http://rruff.info/Hemusite.
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
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Further reading
- Shimizu, Masaaki; Kato, Akira; Matsubara, Satoshi (1988). "Hemusite and paraguanajuatite from the Kawazu mine, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan". Mineralogical Journal 14 (3): 92. doi:10.2465/minerj.14.92. Bibcode: 1988MinJ...14...92S.
- Gaines, Richard V.; Skinner, H. Catherine W.; Foord, Eugene E.; Mason, Brian; Rosenzweig, Abraham; King, Vendall (1997). Dana's New Mineralogy: The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana. New York, Chichester, Weinheim, Brisbane, Singapore, Toronto: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.. p. 93. https://archive.org/details/danasnewmineralo0000dana/page/n5/mode/2up.