Telluro-silver glance explained

Telluro-silver glance (German: telluriumsilberglanz, tellursilberglanz) — is a trivial name given by collectors and mineral dealers, miners, geologists and other professions to at least two ore mineralsrare ore minerals, tellurides of silver.^[1] It may refer to:

• Telluric silver glance — hessite,^[2] a rare ore mineral, telluric silver. Discovered in 1829, in the mines of Western Altai.
• Telluride silver glance (also written or graphic glance) — is sylvanite,^[2] a rare ore mineral mixed with gold and silver telluride, first discovered in Transylvania.
• Telluric silver glance (or Telluric Gold-Silverglance) — petzite,^[2] a rare ore mineral close to hessite; silver and gold telluride.

See also

• Glance (disambiguation)
• Tellurium
• Silver (disambiguation)
• Gold (disambiguation)
• Glances

Notes and References

1. A. Schrauf Ueber die Tellurerze Siebenbürgens. Zeitschrift für Krystallographie und Mineralogie. 1878. Band II. — p.242
2. Krivovichev V. G. Mineralogical glossary. Scientific editor A. G. Bulakh. — St.Petersburg: St.Petersburg Univ. Publ. House. 2009. 556 p. — ISBN 978-5-288-04863-0