Mercury Mineral Data

General Mercury Information

Chemical Formula:

Composition:

Molecular Weight = 200.59 gm

Mercury 100.00 % Hg

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100.00 %

Empirical Formula:

Environment:

Secondary mineral resulting from oxidation of cinnabar deposits. Solid below -38.9°C.

IMA Status:

Valid Species (Pre-IMA) Prehistoric

Locality:

Most notable occurrences are Almaden mines in Spain and the Idria mines in Yugoslavia. Link to MinDat.org Location Data.

Name Origin:

From the Arabic.

Name Pronunciation:

Mercury

Synonym:

ICSD 44514

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Quecksilber

Quicksilver

Mercury Image

Images:

Mercury

Comments: Silvery metallic mercury coatings on quartz.
Location: Socrates Mine, Sonoma County, California, USA. Scale: See Photo.
© Jeff Weissman / Photographic Guide to Mineral Species

Images:

Mercury

Comments: Small silvery droplets of mercury on tan-colored rock matrix.
Location: Sonoma Co., California, USA. Scale: Picture size 5 cm.
© Kevin Ward

Mercury Crystallography

Axial Ratios:

a:c = 1:1.92739

Cell Dimensions:

a = 3.4573, c = 6.6636, Z = 3; V = 68.98 Den(Calc)= 14.49

Crystal System:

Trigonal - Hexagonal ScalenohedralH-M Symbol (3 2/m) Space Group: R 3m

Physical Properties of Mercury

Cleavage:

None

Color:

Tin white, Gray white.

Density:

13.6

Diaphaneity:

Opaque

Habit:

Liquid - Occurs as a liquid at room temperatures.

Hardness:

0 - Liquid

Luminescence:

Non-fluorescent.

Luster:

Metallic

Magnetism:

Nonmagnetic

Streak:

none

Calculated Properties of Mercury

Electron Density:

Bulk Density (Electron Density)=11.6 gm/cc
note: Specific Gravity of Mercury =14.5 gm/cc.

Fermion Index:

Fermion Index = 0.3
Boson Index = 0.7

Photoelectric:

PE_Mercury=1,774.45 barns/electron
U=PE_Mercury x rElectron Density=20508.93 barns/cc.

Radioactivity:

GRapi = 0 (Gamma Ray American Petroleum Institute Units)
Mercury is Not Radioactive

Mercury Classification

Dana Class:

01.01.07.01 (01)Native Elements

(01.01)with metallic elements other than the platinum group

(01.01.07)Dana Group

01.01.07.01 Mercury Hg R 3m 3 2/m

Strunz Class:

01.AD.05 01 - ELEMENTS (Metals and intermetallic alloys; metalloids and nonmetals; carbides, silicides, nitrides, phosphides)

01.A - Metals and Intermetallic Alloys

01.AD -Mercury-amalgam family

01.AD.05 Mercury Hg R 3m 3 2/m

Other Mercury Information

References:

NAME( Duda&Rejl90) PHYS. PROP.(Enc. of Minerals,2nd ed.,1990)

See Also:

Links to other databases for Mercury :
1 - Am. Min. Crystal Structure Database
2 - Amethyst Galleries' Mineral Gallery
3 - Athena
4 - GeoScienceWorld
5 - Google Images
6 - Google Scholar
7 - Handbook of Mineralogy (MinSocAm)
8 - Handbook of Mineralogy (UofA)
9 - MinDAT
10 - Mineral and Gemstone Kingdom
11 - Mineralienatlas (Deutsch)
12 - Online Mineral Museum
13 - Philatelic Mineralogy
14 - QUT Mineral Atlas
15 - Ruff.Info
16 - Scandinavian mineral gallery
17 - WWW-MINCRYST

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Mercury

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Dana No: 01.01.07.01 Strunz No: 01.AD.05
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