Crookesite is a selenide mineral composed of copper and selenium with variable thallium and silver.
[4] It is formed by precipitation from hydrothermal fluids, and contains by mass: 16.3% Tl, 47.3% Cu, 2.9% Ag, and 33.6% Se.
[2] Crookesite is an opaque, bluish grey to pink toned brown metallic mineral crystallizing in the tetragonal system.
It was discovered in 1866 in Skrikerum, Sweden and named for Sir William Crookes (1832–1919), the discoverer of the element thallium.
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