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Rickardite
Telluride mineral

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

  1. Mindat http://www.mindat.org/min-3417.html

  2. Handbook of Mineralogy http://rruff.geo.arizona.edu/doclib/hom/rickardite.pdf

  3. Webmineral http://www.webmineral.com/data/Rickardite.shtml

  4. Mindat http://www.mindat.org/min-3417.html

  5. Handbook of Mineralogy http://rruff.geo.arizona.edu/doclib/hom/rickardite.pdf