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Altaite

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Description
Locality: 
Mattagami Lake Mine, Matagami, Nord-du-Québec, Québec, Canada
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 2.2 × 2 cm
Weight: 
20.00gr
Description

Lustrous altaite crystals in matrix, associated with other sulphides such as possibly tellurantimony (type locality), sphalerite and chalcopyrite.  This sulphide rich matrix is typical of where the rare mattagamite mineral species (type locality) my be found (not analyzed).

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Altaite

Formula: 
PbTe
Strunz: 
2.CD.10
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Streak: 
Black
Type Locality: 
Second Zavodinskii Mine (Second Sawodinsk Mine), Zyryanovsk Rayon, Altai Mts (Rudnyi Altai), Eastern Kazakhstan Province (Shyghys Qazaqstan Oblysy; Vostochno-Kazakhstanskaya Oblast'), Kazakhstan...

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