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Mertieite-I

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Description
Locality: 
Fox Gulch, Goodnews Bay, Bethel Borough, Alaska, United States of America
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.1 × 1.1 × 0.5 cm
Description

Metallic 1 mm single nugget (embedded in solidified resin for the analysis) of the very rare palladium mineral mertieite-I from the type locality in Alaska.

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
What's on the rock

Mertieite-I

Formula: 
Pd11(Sb,As)4
Strunz: 
2.AC.15b
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
5.5
Type Locality: 
Fox Gulch (Fox Gulch Platinum placer), Salmon River - Red Mountain District, Goodnews Bay, Bethel Borough, Alaska, USA

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