One of the most common secondary silver minerals. In Japan, it is found in the oxidation zones of hydrothermal vein-type gold and silver deposits, in quartz veins without assembling with sulfides, or in host rocks altered by silicification. When exposed to light, it changes color immediately, from dark gray to black. It is also interpreted as a primary mineral, which is thought to have precipitated by the decomposition of soluble silver complex salts mainly composed of silver. As it always coexists with quartz, there is also a theory that soluble silver compounds combine with chlorine in liquid or solid halide inclusions in quartz. The one from the Sado mine in Niigata Prefecture contains a small amount of bromine. It is the only bromine mineral in Japan. Its old English name is cerargyrite. [Akira Kato] [References] | | | | | | [Supplementary Information] |Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend |
もっとも普通の銀の二次鉱物の一つ。日本では、熱水鉱脈型の金・銀鉱床の酸化帯中に、硫化物などとは集合せずに石英脈中、あるいは珪(けい)化作用などを受けて変質した母岩中にみられる。光線に当たるとただちに変色して暗灰色から黒色になる。成因的に初生鉱物という解釈もあり、これは銀を主体とする可溶性銀錯塩の分解によって沈殿したとする見方である。つねに石英と共存することから、可溶性銀化合物が石英中の液体あるいは固体ハロゲン化合物包有物中の塩素と結合したという成因説もある。新潟県佐渡鉱山産のものは少量の臭素を含む。日本で唯一の臭素の鉱物である。古い英名はcerargyrite。 [加藤 昭] [参照項目] | | | | | | [補完資料] |出典 小学館 日本大百科全書(ニッポニカ)日本大百科全書(ニッポニカ)について 情報 | 凡例 |
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