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Mindat Short Description

A less common Ag-rich silver sulphosalt.

Stephanite is stable below 197 +/- 5°C (Keighin & Honea, 1969).

Geoscience Ontology Status Notes

Haidinger W (1845) Zweite Klasse: Geogenide. XIV. Ordnung. Glanze. VIII. Melanglanz. Stephanit., in Handbuch der Bestimmenden Mineralogie, Bei Braumüller and Seidel (Wien) 563-570

IMA Formula (from Mindat)

Ag₅SbS₄

RRUFF Formula (from Geoscience Ontology)

Ag₅SbS₄

Additional References

• http://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/stephanite.pdf

• http://www.webmineral.com/data/Stephanite.shtml