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Telargpalite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Stillwater Mine, Nye, Stillwater County, Montana, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 1.7 × 1.5 cm
Description

Silvery crystal aggregates of the extremely rare palladium mineral telargpalite associated to golden chalcopyrite. The two minerals can be differentiated by the color, like in the second photo : telargpalite (left, silvery) and chalcopyrite (right, golden).

Telarpalite is a mineral of singular chemistry since it is a  Palladium-Silver-Tellurium mineral.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Telargpalite

Formula: 
(Pd,Ag)3(Te,Bi)
Strunz: 
2.BC.45
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Colour: 
Lead-gray
Type Locality: 
Komsomol'skii Mine (Komsomol'sky), Talnakh Cu-Ni Deposit, Noril'sk, Putoran Plateau, Taimyr Peninsula, Taymyrskiy Autonomous Okrug, Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia...

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