Valencia County New Mexico, USA S-74-1854 — Photo: Pacific Museum of Earth from Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0
Jordisite
Jordisite is an IMA-recognized mineral species in the sulfide class, with the chemical formula MoS₂.
It is a member of the Amorphous structural group.
Key properties: Submetallic, dull. R: n.d luster.
IMA symbol Jds, grandfathered status — known before the IMA’s founding, named in 1909.
Occurs as veinlets and coatings of probable medium- to low-temperature hydrothermal origin.
It is found associated with Ilsemannite, molybdenite, uraninite, coffinite, kerogen, cinnabar, pyrite, fluorite, apatite, stilbite, calcite, quartz.
In honor of Eduard Friedrich Alexander Jordis (1868–1917), colloidal chemist.
Index entry. This entry combines official IMA/RRUFF species data with published physical-property data — a full written entry hasn’t been published yet.
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