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Monteponite

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Description
Locality: 
Kudriavy Volcano, Iturup Island, Kuril Islands, Sakhalin Oblast, Russian Federation
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.6 × 0.6 × 0.5 cm
Description

Outstanding shiny black crystals of the extremely rare cadmium mineral monteponite from the famous Kudriavy volcano.

Cadmium minerals are very rare in Nature, since only 27 from more than 5000 mineral species known are cadmium minerals.

Specimen analyzed by SEM/EDS see copy enclosed.

Don't miss the opportunity to get this extreme rarity in microcrystals !.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Monteponite

Formula: 
CdO
Strunz: 
4.AB.25
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Monteponi Mine, Iglesias, Carbonia-Iglesias Province, Sardinia, Italy

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