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Heazlewoodite & Chromferide

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Heazlewoodite & Chromferide

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Description
Locality: 
Bazhenovsk, Asbest, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russian Federation
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.7 × 1.7 × 1.2 cm
Description

Specimen of nice, green, Cr-rich Grossular-Diopside matrix contain rare, metallic Heazlewoodite and very rare Chromferide as inclusions in black Chromite from Bazhenovsk deposit in famous Asbest area (Russia).

Ex coll. S. Mockel

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Heazlewoodite

Formula: 
Ni3S2
Strunz: 
2.BB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
4.0
Type Locality: 
Lord Brassey Mine, Heazlewood district, Tasmania, Australia

Chromferide

Formula: 
Fe3Cr1-x (x=0.6)
Strunz: 
1.AE.15
Hardness: 
4.0
Type Locality: 
Efim area, Kumak ore field, Orenburgskaya Oblast', Southern Urals, Urals Region, Russia...

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