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Palarstanide Sobolevskite & Polarite

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Palarstanide Sobolevskite & Polarite

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Description
Locality: 
Mayak Mine, Talnakh, Noril'sk, Putoran Plateau, Taimyr Peninsula, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russian Federation
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.8 × 0.8 × 0.3 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small polished sample with very rare palarstanide in matrix with sobolevskite, atokite and polarite from the type locality for several of these species. The analysis report for this sample is missing. From the Chet Lemanski collection and according to his catalogue, the sample was purchased from the Fersman Museum booth at the 1996 Springfield Mineral show. Money back guarantee should additional analysis prove otherwise.  

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Palarstanide

Formula: 
Pd8(As,Sn)3
Strunz: 
2.AC.20b
Hardness: 
5.0
Type Locality: 
Mayak Mine (Majak Mine), Talnakh Cu-Ni Deposit, Noril'sk, Putoran Plateau, Taimyr Peninsula, Taymyrskiy Autonomous Okrug, Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia...

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...

Polarite

Formula: 
Pd(Bi,Pb)
Strunz: 
2.AC.40
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Mayak Mine (Majak Mine), Talnakh Cu-Ni Deposit, Noril'sk, Putoran Plateau, Taimyr Peninsula, Taymyrskiy Autonomous Okrug, Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia...

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