Coccinite is a rare mercury iodide mineral with chemical formula of HgI2, mercury(II) iodide.[5][6]
It was first discovered in Casas Viejas, Mexico;[7] it has also been reported from Broken Hill, New South Wales, and from a uranium mine in Thuringia and old mercury workings in the Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany.[2] At the Thuringia deposit the mineral occurs as a sublimation product resulting from fires associated with pyrite-bearing graptolitic slate.[6]
^Witzke, T. (1997). "New data on the mercury iodide mineral coccinite, HgI2". Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie - Monatshefte. 1997 (11): 505–510. doi:10.1127/njmm/1997/1997/505.
^ abJambor, John; Pertsev, Nicolai; Roberts, Andrew (1998). "New Mineral Names" (PDF). American Mineralogist. 83: 907–910.
Coccinite is a rare mercury iodide mineral with chemical formula of HgI2, mercury(II) iodide. It was first discovered in Casas Viejas, Mexico; it has...