Livingstonite
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Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Livingstonite is a mercury antimony sulfosalt mineral. It occurs in low-temperature hydrothermal veins associated with cinnabar, stibnite, sulfur and gypsum.
It was first described in 1874 for an occurrence in Huitzuco de los Figueroa, Guerrero, Mexico. It was named to honor Scottish explorer of Africa, David Livingstone.[1]
Its crystal structure was determined in 1957[2] and redetermined in 1975.[3]
References
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- Palache, C., H. Berman, and C. Frondel (1944) Dana's system of mineralogy, (7th edition), v. I, 485–486