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Dienerite & Sobolevskite

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Dienerite & Sobolevskite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Oktyabrsky Mine, Talnakh, Noril'sk, Putoran Plateau, Taimyr Peninsula, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russian Federation
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 2.5 × 1 cm
Description

Metallic white crystal aggregates of the extremely rare mineral dienerite associated to also extremely rare Pd bismuthide mineral sobolevskite from the famous Norilsk deposit in a completely analyzed specimen by SEM/EDS , ses copy enclosed:

Dienerite : analysis in photo 2

Dienerite is all the white metallic areas marked with an arrow in photos 5 and 9.

Sobolevskite : analysis in photo 3.

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

No duplicates available

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Sobolevskite

Formula: 
Pd(Bi,Te)
Strunz: 
2.CC.05
Hardness: 
4.0
Type Locality: 
Oktyabr'skoe Cu-Ni deposit (Oktyabr'skoye; Oktyabr'sky), Talnakh Cu-Ni Deposit, Noril'sk, Putoran Plateau, Taimyr Peninsula, Taymyrskiy Autonomous Okrug, Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia...

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