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Oosterboschite

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Description
Locality: 
Musonoi Mine, Kolwezi, Lualaba, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 1.4 × 1.1 cm
Description

Silvery metallic crystal aggregates of the extremely rare palladium selenide Oosterboschite from the type locality in Musonoi, associated to olive green marthozite crystals. Associated to minoritary species are trogtalite and digenite.

Analyzed specimen by SEM/EDS by the former owner of the specimen (the Vandenbroucke Museum) but the analysis is no longer available.

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

 

Mineral Data
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Oosterboschite

Formula: 
(Pd,Cu)7Se5
Strunz: 
2.BC.10
Hardness: 
5.0
Type Locality: 
Musonoi Mine, Kolwezi, Kolwezi District, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)

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