Tetrahedrite gets its name from the distinctive tetrahedron shaped cubic crystals. The mineral usually occurs in massive form, it is a steel gray to black metallic mineral with Mohs hardness …

Although originally considered a series between tetrahedrite-(Fe) and tetrahedrite-(Zn), the two most common end-members, there are now (as of November 2023) seven IMA-recognized …

Tetrahedrite. Comments: Bright sharp metallic tetrahedrite crystals to 1 cm in size on pinkish to colorless crystalline calcite matrix. Location: Cavnic (Kapnik), Maramures, Romania. Scale: 14 …

Mineral Group: Tetrahedrite group. Occurrence: Typically in hydrothermal veins or contact metamorphic deposits of low to medium temperature of formation. Association: Chalcopyrite, …

A synonym of arsenical Tetrahedrite or antimonal Tennantite, or mid-members in the Tetrahedrite-Tennantite ("Fahlerz") series.

Named during a reclassification of the tetrahedrite group (IMA proposal 18-K, detailed in Biagioni et al (2020)). The suffix indicates the dominant M(1)C constituent (the charge compensating …

: a fine-grained gray mineral (Cu,Fe)12Sb4S13 that is isomorphous with tennantite, consists of a sulfide of copper, iron, and antimony and often also contains zinc, lead, mercury, or silver, …

Tetrahedrite is an important ore of silver. Occurs at Freiberg and other localities in Saxony; in Bohemia and Hungary; at Guanajuato and Arizpe, Sonora, etc., Mexico; in Peru and Chile. It is …

Uses: ore of copper and as a minor ore of silver. Tetrahedrite forms a solid solution series with the rather rare mineral tennantite (Cu 12 As 4 S 13, Copper Arsenic Sulfide). The two share the …

Named after its commonly tetrahedral crystals, Tetrahedrite occurs “in hydrothermal veins or contact metamorphism deposits of low to medium temperature of formation.” One of the most …