A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Hessite from Boulder, Colorado |
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| Description | The gray material, showing a metallic luster in places, is hessite, Ag2Te (silver telluride). It is common in tellurium rich silver-gold ores. Although not seen here, it may form pseudo-cubic crystals which can be cut by a knife (it is sectile). It is one of a few minerals that exhibit this property. This specimen is 4 cm across. |
| Location | USA ▹ Colorado ▹ Boulder County |
| Photographer | Darla Sondrol. 2001-07-16. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection #132. |
| Key words | Hessite, Colorado |
| Tech details | 1.09 MB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 1216 |
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