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Native Platinum

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Native Platinum

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Description
Locality: 
Fox Gulch, Goodnews Bay, Bethel Borough, Alaska, United States of America
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.07 × 0.03 × 0.03 cm
Description

A nice small nugget of native platinum in an analyzed specimen from Alaska (see copy attached).

Some impurities of C and O are present in the analysis, probably because of atmospheric CO2.

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Platinum

Formula: 
Pt
Strunz: 
1.AF.10
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
4.0 - 4.5
Type Locality: 
Pinto River, San Juan Basin, Mun. de Novita, Chocó Department, Colombia

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