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Paolovite Altaite & Mooihoekite

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Paolovite Altaite & Mooihoekite

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Description
Locality: 
Talnakh, Noril'sk, Putoran Plateau, Taimyr Peninsula, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russian Federation
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.7 × 0.9 × 0.4 cm
Description

Polished section of mooihoekite-chalcopyrite ore with visible grain of native silver. Associating minerals are paolovite and altaite in mooihoekite. Rare material !

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Paolovite

Formula: 
Pd2Sn
Strunz: 
1.AG.20
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
5.0
Colour: 
White
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...

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...

Mooihoekite

Formula: 
Cu9Fe9S16
Strunz: 
2.CB.10b
Hardness: 
4.0
Type Locality: 
Mooihoek Farm 255 KT, Lydenburg, Eastern Bushveld Complex, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa
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