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Insizwaite Sobolevskite & Froodite

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Insizwaite Sobolevskite & Froodite

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Description
Locality: 
Oktyabr'skoye Deposit, Baymak-Buribay District, Bashkortostan, Russian Federation
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
0.7 × 1.7 × 0.4 cm
Description

Polished section of insizwaite, sobolevskite etc. (comes with documentation)

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Insizwaite

Formula: 
Pt(Bi,Sb)2
Strunz: 
2.EB.05a
Hardness: 
5.0 - 5.5
Type Locality: 
Waterfall Gorge, Insizwa, Alfred Nzo District, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

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...

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