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Telluropalladinite & Moncheite

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Telluropalladinite & Moncheite

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Description
Locality: 
New Rambler Mine, New Rambler, Albany County, Wyoming, United States of America
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.3 × 1.3 × 0.4 cm
Description

Polished section containing two extremely rare Pt-Pd-Te minerals, telluropalladinite and moncheite in a completely analyzed specimen by SEM/EDS (see copy enclosed).

Size is the size of the epoxy bearer

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Telluropalladinite

Formula: 
Pd9Te4
Strunz: 
2.BC.30
Hardness: 
5.0
Type Locality: 
Stillwater Complex, Stillwater Co., Montana, USA

Moncheite

Formula: 
(Pt,Pd)(Te,Bi)2
Strunz: 
2.EA.20
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Monchegorsk Cu-Ni Deposit, Monchegorsk, Monche-Tundra, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', Northern Region, Russia...

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