Volynskite
A microscopic silver-bismuth telluride of the matildite group, from hydrothermal veins.
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Volynskite is an IMA-recognized mineral species in the sulfosalt class, with the chemical formula AgBiTe₂.
It crystallizes in the hexagonal crystal system (space group P-3m1).
IMA symbol Vol, IMA status: approved, named in 1965.
Occurs as complex intergrowths with other tellurides in gold ores.
It is found associated with Tellurobismuthite, hessite, altaite, calaverite, melonite, petzite.
The name refers to Igor Sergeevich Volynskii (1900–1962), former Director of the Mineragraphic Laboratory, Institute of Mineralogy and Geochemistry of Rare Elements, Moscow, Russia.
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