Tags: Chemical Substance, Mineral.
Stützite or stuetzite is a silver telluride mineral with formula: Ag5−xTe3 (with x = 0.24 to 0.36) or Ag7Te4.It was first described in 1951 from a museum specimen from Sacarimb Romania. It was named for Austrian mineralogist Xavier Stütz (1747–1806).It occurs with other sulfide and telluride minerals in hydrothermal ore occurrences. Associated minerals include sylvanite hessite altaite petzite empressite native tellurium native gold galena sphalerite colusite tennantite and pyrite.
