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Cooperite & Vysotskite

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Cooperite & Vysotskite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Stillwater Complex, Stillwater County, Montana, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.3 × 1.3 × 0.5 cm
Description

Metallic patch of the extremely rare platinum sulphide mineral cooperite associated to the palladium sulphide vysotskite in a specimen that was probably analyzed by the former owner of the specimen (the Vandenbroucke Museum, but the analysis is no longer available).

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cooperite

Formula: 
PtS
Strunz: 
2.CC.35b
Hardness: 
4.0 - 5.0
Type Locality: 
Rustenburg Town & Townlands Mine, Rustenburg (Rustenburg District), Western Bushveld Complex, Bojanala Platinum District, North West Province, South Africa

Vysotskite

Formula: 
(Pd,Ni)S
Strunz: 
2.CC.35a
Hardness: 
1.5
Colour: 
White
Type Locality: 
Severniy Mine (Severnaya Mine), Talnakh Cu-Ni Deposit, Noril'sk, Putoran Plateau, Taimyr Peninsula, Taymyrskiy Autonomous Okrug, Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia...

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