Tags: Chemical Substance, Mineral.

Fettelite is a mercury-sulfosalt mineral with the chemical formula Ag16HgAs4S15. The mineral was first described by Wang and Paniagua (1996) who named it after M. Fettel a German field geologist who collected the first samples from Odenwald. It was first collected in the Nieder-Beerbach mine 10 km south of Darmstadt Odenwald Germany. Its normal occurrence is in hydrothermal veins which can cut gabbro-diorite intrusives.

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