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Altaite & Tellurantimony

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Altaite & Tellurantimony

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Description
Locality: 
Mattagami Lake Mine, Matagami, Nord-du-Québec, Québec, Canada
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.6 × 1.1 × 1.1 cm
Description

Grey metallic tellurantimony associated with SEM-EDS confirmed darker metallic altaite (SEM-EDS conf no 578) from the Mattagami lake, Canada. 

 

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...

Tellurantimony

Formula: 
Sb2Te3
Strunz: 
2.DC.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
2.0
Type Locality: 
Mattagami Lake mine, Matagami, Nord-du-Québec, Québec, Canada
Analysis
Analysis Report - only: Altaite & Tellurantimony
Analysis Report - only: Altaite & Tellurantimony