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Native Indium

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Native Indium

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Description
Locality: 
Orlovskoye, Chitinskaya Oblast, Zabaykalsky Krai, Russian Federation
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.1 × 0.1 × 0.1 cm
Description

One grey-black metallic specimen of the extremely rare native element indium from the type locality in Russia.

Native indium is one of the rarest native elements, even more in these completely analyzed specimens like this two, by SEM-EDS, where the analysis show a purity of 96% In, being the remaining Pb, with about 4%.

Indium minerals ar every rare in Nature with only 16 In species known from a total of 5709 (source Mindat) !.

Don't miss the opportunity to get this extreme rarity in an analyzed specimen!!

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Indium

Formula: 
In
Strunz: 
1.AC.05
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Colour: 
Grey
Type Locality: 
Orlovskoye Ta Deposit, Orlovskoye, Chitinskaya Oblast', Transbaikalia (Zabaykalye), Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia...

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