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Braggite & Vysotskite

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Braggite & Vysotskite

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Description
Locality: 
Noril'sk, Putoran Plateau, Taimyr Peninsula, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russian Federation
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.1 × 0.1 × 0.1 cm
Description

A lot of  black single crystal aggregates of the very rare Pt-Pd minerals braggite and vysotskite, from the type locality for both minerals in Noril'sk.

Analyzed specimen by SEM/EDS , see copy enclosed. Specimen impurified by carbonates and silicates, this is the reason of the high oxygen content in the analysis.

Don't miss the opportunity to get this palladium-platinum rarities, even more in an analyzed specimen.

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection specimen, from Waregem, Belgium.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Braggite

Formula: 
(Pt,Pd,Ni)S
Strunz: 
2.CC.35a
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
5.0
Type Locality: 
Mokopane (Potgietersrus), Waterberg District, Bushveld Complex, Limpopo Province, South Africa

Vysotskite

Formula: 
(Pd,Ni)S
Strunz: 
2.CC.35a
Hardness: 
1.5
Colour: 
White
Type Locality: 
Severniy Mine (Severnaya Mine), Talnakh Cu-Ni Deposit, Noril'sk, Putoran Plateau, Taimyr Peninsula, Taymyrskiy Autonomous Okrug, Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia...

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