# Hemusite > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Hemusite > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Hemusite.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemusite > Source revision: 1327749758 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Very rare isometric gray mineral}} {{Infobox mineral | name = Hemusite | category = [Sulfosalt minerals](/source/Sulfosalt_minerals), [Sulfides](/source/Sulfides) | image = Hemusite NNHMuseum Sofia.JPG | caption = Hemusite from Kawazu mine, [Japan](/source/Japan) at The [National Museum of Natural History, Bulgaria](/source/National_Museum_of_Natural_History%2C_Bulgaria) | formula = Cu6SnMoS8 | IMAsymbol = Hm{{Cite journal|last=Warr|first=L.N.|date=2021|title=IMA–CNMNC approved mineral symbols|journal=Mineralogical Magazine|volume=85|issue=3|pages=291–320|doi=10.1180/mgm.2021.43|bibcode=2021MinM...85..291W|s2cid=235729616|doi-access=free}} | molweight = | dana = 2.9.6.1 | strunz = 2.CB.35a (10 ed)
2/C.09-10 (8 ed) | color = gray | habit = | system = [Isometric](/source/Isometric_crystal_system) | symmetry = ''P432'' (no. 207), ''F{{overline|4}}3m'' (no. 216), or ''Fm{{overline|3}}m'' (no. 225) | twinning = | cleavage = | fracture = | tenacity = | mohs = 4 | luster = metallic | polish = | refractive = | opticalprop = | birefringence = | dispersion = | pleochroism = | fluorescence= | absorption = | streak = | gravity = | density = 4.469 | melt = | fusibility = | diagnostic = | solubility = | diaphaneity = Opaque | other = | references = {{cite journal |url=http://www.minsocam.org/ammin/am56/am56_1847.pdf |first= G. |last =Terziev |author-link = Georgi Ivanov Terziev |year= 1971 |title= Hemusite – A Complex Copper-Tin-Molybdenum Sulfide from the Chelopech Ore Deposit, Bulgaria |journal= The American Mineralogist | volume= 56 |issue= 11–12 |page= 1847}}{{cite web |url= http://webmineral.com/data/Hemusite.shtml |title= Information about Hemusite |publisher= Webmineral Database}}{{cite web |url= http://www.mindat.org/min-1862.html |title= Information about Hemusite |publisher= Mindat Database}}{{cite web |url= http://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/hemusite.pdf |title= Information about Hemusite |publisher= Handbook of Mineralogy}}{{cite web |url= http://rruff.info/Hemusite |title= Hemusite |publisher= RRUFF Database}} }} '''Hemusite''' ([IMA](/source/International_Mineralogical_Association) [symbol](/source/List_of_mineral_symbols): Hm) is a very rare isometric gray [mineral](/source/mineral) containing [copper](/source/copper), [molybdenum](/source/molybdenum), [sulfur](/source/sulfur), and [tin](/source/tin) with chemical formula Cu6SnMoS8. ==Discovery and occurrence== It was discovered by Bulgarian mineralogist [Georgi Ivanov Terziev](/source/Georgi_Ivanov_Terziev) in 1963. He also described it and named it after [Haemus](/source/Haemus), the ancient name of [Stara planina](/source/Stara_planina) (Balkan) mountains in Europe. The [type locality](/source/Type_locality_(geology)) is [Chelopech](/source/Chelopech) copper ore deposit, [Bulgaria](/source/Bulgaria). Later tiny deposits of hemusite were found in Ozernovskoe deposit, [Kamchatka](/source/Kamchatka), Russia; Kawazu mine, Rendaiji, Shimoda city, [Chūbu region](/source/Ch%C5%ABbu_region), [Honshu Island](/source/Honshu_Island), [Japan](/source/Japan); Iriki mine, [Iriki](/source/Iriki%2C_Kagoshima), Satsuma-gun, Kagoshima Prefecture, [Kyushu Region](/source/Kyushu), Japan; Kochbulak deposit, Tashkent, [Uzbekistan](/source/Uzbekistan).{{cite web |url= http://www.mineralatlas.eu/lexikon/index.php/MineralDataShow?mineralid=1562§ions=12 |title= Information about Hemusite |publisher= Mineralienatlas Lexicon}} Hemusite occurs as rounded isometric grains and aggregates usually about 0.05 mm in diameter and in association with [enargite](/source/enargite), [luzonite](/source/luzonite), colusite, [stannoidite](/source/stannoidite), [renierite](/source/renierite), [tennantite](/source/tennantite), [chalcopyrite](/source/chalcopyrite), [pyrite](/source/pyrite), and other minerals. ==See also== * [List of minerals recognized by the International Mineralogical Association](/source/List_of_minerals_recognized_by_the_International_Mineralogical_Association) ==References== {{reflist}} ==Further reading== *{{cite journal | doi = 10.2465/minerj.14.92 | title = Hemusite and paraguanajuatite from the Kawazu mine, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan | year = 1988 | last1 = Shimizu | first1 = Masaaki | last2 = Kato | first2 = Akira | last3 = Matsubara | first3 = Satoshi | journal = Mineralogical Journal | volume = 14 | issue = 3 | pages = 92| bibcode = 1988MinJ...14...92S | doi-access = free }} * {{cite book |last = Gaines |first=Richard V. |author2-link=H. Catherine W. Skinner |last2=Skinner |first2=H. Catherine W. |last3=Foord |first3= Eugene E. |last4= Mason |first4= Brian |last5=Rosenzweig |first5= Abraham |last6= King |first6= Vendall |title=Dana's New Mineralogy: The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana |place= New York, Chichester, Weinheim, Brisbane, Singapore, Toronto |publisher=John Wiley & Sons, Inc. |year=1997 |url=https://archive.org/details/danasnewmineralo0000dana/page/n5/mode/2up |url-access=registration |page=[https://archive.org/details/danasnewmineralo0000dana/page/93/mode/2up 93]}} {{Commons category|Hemusite|position=left}} {{wiktionary}} Category:Sulfosalt minerals Category:Copper minerals Category:Tin minerals Category:Molybdenum minerals Category:Cubic minerals Category:Minerals in space group 207 Category:Minerals in space group 216 Category:Minerals in space group 225 --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Hemusite](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemusite) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemusite?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.