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Sobolevskite & Insizwaite

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Sobolevskite & Insizwaite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Oktyabr'skoye Deposit, Baymak-Buribay District, Bashkortostan, Russian Federation
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 1.7 × 0.4 cm
Description

Microinclusions of two extremely rare palladium-platinum minerals , sobolevskite and insizwaite, from the famous locality of Norilsk in a matrix of cubanite-pentlandite-chalcopyrite in a polished specimen, that was analyzed. 

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Sobolevskite

Formula: 
Pd(Bi,Te)
Strunz: 
2.CC.05
Hardness: 
4.0
Type Locality: 
Oktyabr'skoe Cu-Ni deposit (Oktyabr'skoye; Oktyabr'sky), Talnakh Cu-Ni Deposit, Noril'sk, Putoran Plateau, Taimyr Peninsula, Taymyrskiy Autonomous Okrug, Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia...

Insizwaite

Formula: 
Pt(Bi,Sb)2
Strunz: 
2.EB.05a
Hardness: 
5.0 - 5.5
Type Locality: 
Waterfall Gorge, Insizwa, Alfred Nzo District, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

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