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Sperrylite Froodite & Michenerite

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Sperrylite Froodite & Michenerite

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Description
Locality: 
Frood Mine, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.2 × 0.8 × 0.8 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small fragmnet of chalcopyrite hosting a grey metallic area of intermixed froodite and michenerite with probably other species. Also in the chalcopyrite are small embedded crystals of sperrylite. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Sperrylite

Formula: 
PtAs2
Strunz: 
2.EB.05a
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
6.0 - 7.0
Colour: 
Tin-white
Type Locality: 
Vermilion Mine, Denison Township, Sudbury District, Ontario, Canada

Froodite

Formula: 
α-PdBi2
Strunz: 
2.AC.45a
Hardness: 
2.5
Colour: 
Grey
Streak: 
Black
Type Locality: 
Frood Mine, McKim Township, Sudbury District, Ontario, Canada

Michenerite

Formula: 
PdBiTe
Strunz: 
2.EB.25
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Vermilion Mine, Denison Township, Sudbury District, Ontario, Canada

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