HESSITE (Silver Telluride)
Chemistry: Ag2Te, Silver Telluride. Class: Sulfides. Subclass: Tellurides. Uses: As mineral specimens and as a very minor ore of silver and tellurium. Specimens. Hessite is named after the nineteenth century Swiss chemist and Professor of St. Petersburg Mining Institute, Germain Henry Hess. He was the first to analyze specimens of this mineral ...