| Moschellandsbergite | |
| Category: | Metals and intermetallic alloys |
| Formula: | silver amalgam, Ag2Hg3 |
| Imasymbol: | Mlb[1] |
| Strunz: | 1.AD.15d |
| System: | Isometric |
| Class: | Tetartoidal (23) (same H-M symbol) |
| Symmetry: | I23 |
| Unit Cell: | a = 10.04 Å, Z = 10 |
| Color: | white, tarnishes grey |
| Cleavage: | brittle |
| Mohs: | 3.5 |
| Luster: | metallic |
| Gravity: | 13.48 |
| References: | [2] [3] [4] [5] |
Moschellandsbergite is a rare isometric mineral made up of a silver-white amalgam of mercury and silver with the chemical makeup Ag2Hg3.
It was first described in 1938 and named after Moschellandsberg Mountain near Obermoschel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.[4] [6] It is considered a low-temperature hydrothermal mineral which occurs with metacinnabar, cinnabar, mercurian silver, tetrahedrite–tennantite, pyrite, sphalerite and chalcopyrite.[3]