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Laurite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Alaska, United States of America
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.05 × 0.05 × 0.05 cm
Description

Very small single nugget of the extremely rare ruthenium sulphide mineral laurite (RuS2) from a river in Alaska.

Specimen analyzed by SEM/EDS by the former owner of the specimen (The Vandenbroucke Museum) but the analysis in no longer available.

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Laurite

Formula: 
RuS2
Strunz: 
2.EB.05a
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
7.0
Colour: 
Black
Streak: 
Dark grey
Type Locality: 
Tanah Laut (Pontijn), Kalimantan Selatan Province (South Kalimantan Province), Kalimantan Island (Borneo Island), Indonesia

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