The occurrence of rare Ag-Hg sulfide - imiterite - in dump material of the Lill mine (černojamské deposit), the Březové Hory base metal ore district, Příbram (Czech Republic)

Abstract

The unique specimen which contains Ag-Hg mineralization, represented by crystalline imiterite, stephanite and pyrargyrite, was found on the dump of the Lill mine of the Black pits deposit (Příbram, Central Bohemia, Czech Republic). In this paper the results of the complex mineralogical study of this young mineralization stage are presented.

Keywords

• imiterite
• Ag-Hg mineralization
• chemical composition
• powder X-ray diffraction
• Příbram
• Czech Republic