General Berryite Information
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 Chemical Formula: |
Cu3Ag2Pb3Bi7S16 |
| Composition: |
Molecular Weight = 3,015.01 gm |
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Copper 6.18 % Cu |
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Silver 6.87 % Ag |
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Bismuth 49.00 % Bi |
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Lead 20.89 % Pb |
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Sulfur 17.06 % S |
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100.00 % |
| Empirical Formula: |
Cu2.93Ag1.92Pb3.04Bi7.07S16.04 |
| Environment: |
In quartz veins with other sulfides and sulfosalts, and in siderite-rich cryolite. |
| IMA Status: |
Approved IMA 1966 |
| Locality: |
From the Missouri mine, Park Co., and the Mike mine, San Juan Co., Colorado, USA. Link to MinDat.org Location Data. |
| Name Origin: |
For Professor Leonard Gascoigne Berry (1914-1982), mineralogist, Queen's University, Toronto, Canada, who obtained the first X-ray powder pattern of the mineral. |
| Name Pronunciation: |
Berryite  |
| Synonym: |
IMA1965-013 |
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