Lautite is a rare mineral[5] belonging to the class of sulfides and sulfosalts with the general formula CuAsS. It is orthorhombic and is known to form up to 2.3 cm long prismatic or flat crystals. It is also found as grains or masses.
Lautite
Dark grey metallic lautite together with white metallic löllingite
lautite, rare, mineral, belonging, class, sulfides, sulfosalts, with, general, formula, cuass, orthorhombic, known, form, long, prismatic, flat, crystals, also, found, grains, masses, dark, grey, metallic, lautite, together, with, white, metallic, löllingitege. Lautite is a rare mineral 5 belonging to the class of sulfides and sulfosalts with the general formula CuAsS It is orthorhombic and is known to form up to 2 3 cm long prismatic or flat crystals It is also found as grains or masses LautiteDark grey metallic lautite together with white metallic lollingiteGeneralCategorySulfide mineralsFormula repeating unit CuAsSIMA symbolLtt 1 Strunz classification2 CB 40Crystal systemOrthorhombicCrystal classPyramidal mm2 same H M symbol Space groupPna21IdentificationReferences 2 3 4 First identified by Friedrich August Frenzel in 1880 in the Rudolphschacht mine near Lauta in Saxony it was named after its type locality 6 Lautite is formed in veins under hydrothermal conditions at medium temperatures Depending on the locality it is found accompanied by arsenic tennantite proustite chalcopyrite galenite and baryte in the type locality by kutinaite and paxite in Nieder Beerbach or by arsenic bismuth tennantite loellingite rammelsbergite proustite and quartz in Sainte Marie aux Mines Aside from the type locality the mineral is found in other places in the Ore Mountains in Sankt Andreasberg in the Harz mountains Nieder Beerbach in the Odenwald Hausach Schenkenzell and Titisee Neustadt in the Black Forest Flatschach in Austria Iserables in Switzerland Cochrane in Canada Luqu and Zoige in China Sirohi in India Takab in Iran Kombat in Namibia and Coconino County in Arizona US References edit Warr L N 2021 IMA CNMNC approved mineral symbols Mineralogical Magazine 85 3 291 320 Bibcode 2021MinM 85 291W doi 10 1180 mgm 2021 43 S2CID 235729616 Mineralienatlas Mindat Webmineral data Definition of LAUTITE Frenzel A 1880 XIX Mineralogisches Zeitschrift fur Kristallographie Mineralogie und Petrographie 3 6 504 516 nbsp This article about a specific sulfide mineral is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Lautite amp oldid 1136306483, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
