Rickardite is a telluride mineral, a copper telluride (Cu7Te5) or Cu3-x (x = 0 to 0.36)Te2. It was first described for an occurrence in the Good Hope Mine, Vulcan district, Gunnison County, Colorado, US, and named for mining engineer Thomas Arthur Rickard (1864–1953). It is a low temperature hydrothermal mineral that occurs associated with vulcanite, native tellurium, cameronite, petzite, sylvanite, berthierite, pyrite, arsenopyrite and bornite.
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See also
- D. M. Chizhikov and V. P. Shchastlivyi, 1966, Tellurium and Tellurides, Nauka Publishing, Moscow
References
Handbook of Mineralogy http://rruff.geo.arizona.edu/doclib/hom/rickardite.pdf ↩
Webmineral http://www.webmineral.com/data/Rickardite.shtml ↩
Handbook of Mineralogy http://rruff.geo.arizona.edu/doclib/hom/rickardite.pdf ↩