Tiemannite

Tiemannite
General
Category	Selenide mineral
Chemical formula	HgSe
Strunz classification	02.CB.05a
Dana classification	02.08.02.04
Identification
Color	Steel-gray to black
Crystal habit	Massive and as euhedral crystals
Crystal system	Isometric - hextetrahedral (4 3m)
Cleavage	none
Mohs scale hardness	2.5
Luster	Metallic
Streak	grayish black
Diaphaneity	opaque
Specific gravity	8.19 - 8.47
References	[1][2]

Tiemannite is a mineral, mercury selenide, formula HgSe. It occurs in hydrothermal veins associated with other selenides, or other mercury minerals such as cinnabar, and often with calcite. Discovered in 1855 in Germany, it is named after C. W. Tiemann (1848–1899).

See also

• List of minerals
• List of minerals named after people

References

1. ^ Tiemannite Mineral Data
2. ^ Tiemannite: Tiemannite mineral information and data

• Tiemannite from a micro-disseminated gold deposit in Qiongmo, Liu Jiajun, Zheng Minghua, Liu Jianming, Lu Wenquan, Journal of Chengdu Institute of Technology, vol. 23 (2), pages 21–28 (1996)
• Timanite and onofrite in ores of Siberian mercury deposits, Vasil'yev V.I., Lavrent'yev Y.G., Doklady (Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Earth Sciences Section) vol. 222, Pages 159-162 (1975).

External links

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