{{Short description|Isometric mineral made up of a silver-white amalgam of mercury and silver}} {{Infobox mineral | name = Moschellandsbergite | category = Metals and intermetallic alloys | boxwidth = | boxbgcolor = | image = Moschellandsbergite-21591.jpg | imagesize = 260px | caption = | formula = silver amalgam, Ag<sub>2</sub>Hg<sub>3</sub> | IMAsymbol = Mlb<ref>{{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}}</ref> | molweight = | strunz = 1.AD.15d | system = Isometric | class = Tetartoidal (23) <br/><small>(same H-M symbol)</small> | symmetry = ''I23'' | unit cell = a = 10.04&nbsp;Å, Z&nbsp;=&nbsp;10 | color = white, tarnishes grey | habit = | twinning = | cleavage = brittle | fracture = | tenacity = | mohs = 3.5 | luster = metallic | refractive = | opticalprop = | birefringence = | pleochroism = | streak = | gravity = 13.48 | density = | melt = | fusibility = | diagnostic = | solubility = | diaphaneity = | other = | references = <ref>[https://www.mineralienatlas.de/lexikon/index.php/MineralData?mineral=Moschellandsbergite Mineralienatlas]</ref><ref name=Handbook>[http://www.handbookofmineralogy.org/pdfs/moschellandsbergite.pdf Mineral Handbook]</ref><ref name=Mindat>[http://www.mindat.org/min-2789.html Mindat]</ref><ref>[http://webmineral.com/data/Moschellandsbergite.shtml Webmineral]</ref> }} '''Moschellandsbergite''' is a rare isometric mineral made up of a silver-white amalgam of mercury and silver with the chemical makeup Ag<sub>2</sub>Hg<sub>3</sub>.

It was first described in 1938 and named after Moschellandsberg Mountain near Obermoschel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.<ref name=Mindat/><ref>{{Cite book | author= American Geological Institute | title = Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms | publisher = Birkhäuser | location = Alexandria, Virginia | pages = 356 | year = 1997 | isbn = 0-922152-36-5}}</ref> It is considered a low-temperature hydrothermal mineral which occurs with metacinnabar, cinnabar, mercurian silver, tetrahedrite–tennantite, pyrite, sphalerite and chalcopyrite.<ref name=Handbook/>

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Category:Native element minerals Category:Mercury minerals Category:Silver minerals Category:Cubic minerals Category:Minerals in space group 197 Category:Minerals described in 1938

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