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Rheniite

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Description
Locality: 
Kudriavy Volcano, Iturup Island, Kuril Islands, Sakhalin Oblast, Russian Federation
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.2 × 1 × 0.9 cm
Description

Metallic crystals of the extremely rare mineral rheniite, a rhenium sulphide.

Rhenium minerals are exceedingly rare in Nature. In fact, only 2 from 5555 approved mineral species are known to contain rhenium (source Mindat) : rheniite and tarkianite. so you will get a real rarity with this species.

It is from the "rheniite eruption" of the volcano Kudriavy, when flakes of this rarity fell like snow and covered little parts of the slopes of the volcano.

Very rich specimen !

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Rheniite

Formula: 
ReS2
Strunz: 
2.EB.35
Crystal System: 
Triclinic ?
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Kudriavy volcano (Kudryavyi), Iturup Island, Kuril Islands, Sakhalinskaya Oblast', Far-Eastern Region, Russia...

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