The Mineral MOSCHELLANDSBERGITE


Moschellandsbergite is an incredibly rare mineral and it has an incredibly long name. It is named for its type locality at Landsberg (formerly known as Moschellandsberg), Obermoschel, Rhineland-Pfalz, Germany. This locality has produced many specimens of various familiar mercury minerals such as cinnabar, mercury and calomel. It also has produced some rather obscure mercury minerals especially mercury alloys such as Belendorffite, Cu7Hg6; Paraschachnerite, Ag3Hg2; Schachnerite, Ag1.1Hg0.9 and of course moschellandsbergite.

Alloys such as moschellandsbergite are classified as elements despite the fact, that in chemical reality, they are compounds! Moschellandsbergite like other alloys have metallic bonds that are very similar to the more pure metallic elements and are thus classified in the Native Elements Class.

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