Telluro-silver glance

Telluro-silver glance
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Telluro-silver glance (German: telluriumsilberglanz, tellursilberglanz) — is a trivial name given by collectors and mineral dealers, miners, geologists and other professions to at least two ore mineralsrare ore minerals, tellurides of silver.[1] It may refer to:

  • Telluric silver glance — hessite,[2]: 338  a rare ore mineral, telluric silver. Discovered in 1829, in the mines of Western Altai.
  • Telluride silver glance (also written or graphic glance) — is sylvanite,[2]: 338  a rare ore mineral mixed with gold and silver telluride, first discovered in Transylvania.
  • Telluric silver glance (or Telluric Gold-Silverglance) — petzite,[2]: 338  a rare ore mineral close to hessite; silver and gold telluride.
  • Hessite
    Hessite
  • Sylvanite
    Sylvanite
  • Petzite
    Petzite

References

  1. ^ A. Schrauf Ueber die Tellurerze Siebenbürgens. Zeitschrift für Krystallographie und Mineralogie. 1878. Band II. — p.242
  2. ^ a b c Krivovichev V. G. Mineralogical glossary. Scientific editor A. G. Bulakh. — St.Petersburg: St.Petersburg Univ. Publ. House. 2009. 556 p. — ISBN 978-5-288-04863-0

See also

  • Glance (disambiguation)
  • Tellurium
  • Silver (disambiguation)
  • Gold (disambiguation)
  • Glances
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