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Mertieite-II Laurite & Hollingworthite

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Mertieite-II Laurite & Hollingworthite

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Description
Locality: 
Soloveva Mountain, Prigorodny District, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russian Federation
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.4 × 0.7 × 0.5 cm
Description

Polished section of mertieite II etc. (comes with handwritten documentation)

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Mertieite-II

Formula: 
Pd8(Sb,As)3
Strunz: 
2.AC.10b
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
6.0
Type Locality: 
Fox Gulch (Fox Gulch Platinum placer), Salmon River - Red Mountain District, Goodnews Bay, Bethel Borough, Alaska, USA

Laurite

Formula: 
RuS2
Strunz: 
2.EB.05a
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
7.0
Colour: 
Black
Streak: 
Dark grey
Type Locality: 
Tanah Laut (Pontijn), Kalimantan Selatan Province (South Kalimantan Province), Kalimantan Island (Borneo Island), Indonesia

Hollingworthite

Formula: 
(Rh,Pt,Pd)AsS
Strunz: 
2.EB.25
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
Colour: 
Grey
Type Locality: 
Driekop mine, Sekhukhuneland, Burgersfort, Bushveld Complex, Limpopo Province, South Africa