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Kerstenite

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El Dragón mine, Antonio Quijarro Province, Potosí Department, Bolivia
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Lustre:Vitreous
Name:For K. M. Kersten (1803-1850), Professor of Chemistry, Freiberg School of Mines.


Discredited 2006. In part Molybdomenite or Olsacherite.
Originally reported from Friedrichsglück Mine, Hildburghausen, Suhl, Thuringian Forest, Thuringia, Germany.

Classification of Kerstenite

IMA status:Discredited 2006
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Physical Properties of Kerstenite

Lustre:Vitreous

Other Names for Kerstenite

Other Languages:
German:Kerstenit
Simplified Chinese:黄硒铅矿
Spanish:Kerstenita

Other Information

Health Warning:No information on health risks for this material has been entered into the database. You should always treat mineral specimens with care.

References for Kerstenite

Reference List:

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Kersten (1839) Annalen der Physik, Halle, Leipzig: 46: 277 (as Selenichtsaures Bleioxyd).

Dana, J.D. (1868) System of Mineralogy, 5th. Edition, New York. (aided by G.J. Brush): 669.

Adam, M. (1869) Tableau minéralogique, Paris: 52 (as Glasbachit).

Palache, C., Berman, H., & Frondel, C. (1951), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, Yale University 1837-1892, Volume II. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, 7th edition, revised and enlarged, 1124 pp.: 640.

European Journal of Mineralogy (1994): 6: 337.

Plinius 28 (2002), 235-236

Burke, Ernest A.J. (2007) A Mass Discreditation of GQN Minerals. Canadian Mineralogist: 44(6): 1557-1560.

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    • Localities for Kerstenite

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    Argentina
     
    • La Rioja
      • Los Llantenes District
    		Sarp, H. & G.Burri, Schweiz. Mineral.Petrogr. Mitt. 67, 219-223(1987)
    Bolivia
     
    • Potosí Department
      • Antonio Quijarro Province
    		[MinRec 21:133]
    France
     
    • Auvergne
      • Puy-de-Dôme
        • Saint-Amant-Tallende
          • Olloix
    		H. Agrinier and J. Geffroy : "Les Minéraux Séléniés du Point Uranifère de Liauzun-en-Olloix (Puy de Dôme) : Clausthalite, Sélénium Natif, Sélénite de Plomb et Chalcoménite", Bull. Soc. Fr. Minéral. Cristallogr., 1967, XC, N°3, 383-386
    Germany
     
    • Thuringia
      • Thuringian Forest
        • Hildburghausen
    		Dana's System of Mineralogy 7:II:640.
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