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Atokite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Talnakh, Noril'sk, Putoran Plateau, Taimyr Peninsula, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russian Federation
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.2 × 0.1 × 0.1 cm
Description

Almost perfect single elongated cubic crystal of the extremely rare palladium-tin mineral atokite, (Pd, Pt)3Sn, from this famous locality in Siberia.

Analyzed specimen by SEM/EDS, see copy attached.

Palladium minerals are very rare in Nature and rarely seen in the systematic mineral market, less in this quality !

Don't miss the opportunity to get this very sought after palladium species, with identification confirmed by analysis.

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Atokite

Formula: 
(Pd,Pt)3Sn
Strunz: 
1.AG.10
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
Atok Mine, Merensky Reef, Eastern Bushveld Complex, Limpopo Province, South Africa

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