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Mineral Reference Lookup for red

 This reference page contains mineralogic data for red and folklore and metaphysical beliefs. If the mineral is an alternate naming of a more common name, the more common mineral's data is displayed below the list of synonyms.


Minerals matching red in the database: Antimonial Red Silver   Arsenical Red Silver   Aventurine, Peach (Red)   Aventurine, Red (Peach)   Brecciated Red Jasper   Bredbergit   Bredbergita   Bredigit   Bredigita   Brown - Red Goldstone   Capillary Red Oxide of Copper   CopperRed   Crednerit   Crednerita   Crednerite   Dark Red Silver Ore   Fluoredenit   Fluoredenita   Fluoredenite   Fredrikssonit   Fredrikssonita   Fredrikssonite   Garnet, Red   HematiteRed   Iron-Reddingite   Light red silver ore   Picture Jasper, Red   Red (Brecciated) Jasper   Red and Silver Hematite   Red Arsenic   Red cobalt ochre   Red Copper   Red Hematite   Red Iron Ore   Red Iron Vitriol   Red Jasper   Red lead ore   Red Ochre   Red Orpiment   Red Picture Jasper   Red Quartz   Red Tigereye   Red Vitriol   Reddingit   Reddingita   Reddingite   Redgillite   Redingtonit   Redingtonita   Redingtonite  

Mineralogical Reference

red
MineralAntimonial Red Silver
SynonymPyrargyrite

Pyrargyrite (synonym)

MineralPYRARGYRITE
ChemistryAg 3 SbS 3
ClassSulfides
Usesan ore of silver and as mineral specimens.
ColorDeep red or red gray
Transparencycrystals are translucent to nearly opaque.
CrystalSystemTrigonal
CrystalHabits: include prismatic crystals with rhombohedral and scalenohedral faces forming terminations.There is no perpendicular mirror plane and therefore a hemimorphic crystal can be seen, in some rare examples, with differing terminations at the top and bottom of the crystal.Typical crystals are poorly formed and modified heavily by secondary faces.Also found massive.
Fracturesometimes distinct in three directions forming rhombohedrons.
Hardness2½
StreakCherry red
Characteristicsdarkens upon exposure to light and crystals are frequently striated.
Indicatorscrystal habit, density, association with silver sulfides and color.
DensityNotevery heavy for translucent minerals
IMAStatusApproved
CellParametersa = 11.04c = 8.71
Ratioa:c = 1 : 0.789
OpticalTypeUniaxial (-)
RIn ω =3.084 n ε =2.881
Birefringenceδ=0.203
SurfaceReliefVery High
Strunz2/E.07-20 2 : Sulphides E : Sulphosalts (S : AsSbBi = x)Sulphosalts with predominant Fe and Cu and x = 2.0 07 : Proustite - Samsonite series
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