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Formula: Ag2Hg3
Alloy of silver and mercury
Crystal System: Isometric
Specific gravity: 13.48 to 13.71 measured, 13.49 calculated
Hardness: 3½
Streak: Silver
Colour: White, tarnishes light brownish grey
Environments
Moschellandsbergite is probably of low-temperature hydrothermal origin. Associated minerals include
metacinnabar, cinnabar,
native amalgam,
tetrahedrite–tennantite,
pyrite, sphalerite and
chalcopyrite
(HOM).
Localities
At the type locality, the Carolina mine, Landsberg, Obermoschel, Nordpfälzer Land, Donnersberg District,
Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, moschellandsbergite is associated with
tetrahedrite–tennantite,
sphalerite, pyrite,
native amalgam, metacinnabar,
cinnabar and chalcopyrite
(Mindat).
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