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Livingstonite

Year of discovery: 1874 (Huitzuco de los Figueroa, Mexico), 1957 (Japan)

Locality list: A locality of livingstonite

• HgSb₄S₈
• [Hg²⁺][Sb³⁺₄][S₈]

• Class: Large 2D fragment Pb sulfosalts < Sulfosalt class
• Class: Sulfosalt
• Soluble in: warm HNO₃
• Insoluble in: cold HNO₃
• Substitution pseudomorph: Replaced by Cinnabar.

• Color: Dark gray
• Streak: Red
• Luster: Adamantine
• Diaphaneity: Translucent-Opaque

• Habit: Fibrous, Acicular elongated to [010]
• Aggregate: Columnar, Globular

• Cleavage: {001} Perfect (1 plane), Poor on {010} and {100}
• Hardness: 2
• Density: 4.9

• System: Monoclinic
• Group: 2/m, B2/b
• Lattice: a=30.2, b=4.0, c=21.4, β=104.3

Etymology: David Livingstone (1813-1873), Scottish explorer