Hessite Ag2Te Monoclinic

Description: Hessite is a silver telluride forming masses or pseudo-cubic crystals in hydrothermal deposits.

RUSK COUNTY: Hessite was reported as tiny grains intergrown with other sulfides in the primary ore at the Flambeau Copper Mine, Ladysmith. ( May and Dinkowitz, 1996).

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