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Kashinite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Platinum Creek, Goodnews Bay, Bethel, Alaska, United States of America
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.7 × 0.5 × 0.5 cm
Description

Several nuggets of the extremely rare iridium sulfide mineral kashinite, associated to platinum in an analyzed specimen by SEM/EDS by the former owner of the specimen (The Vandenbroucke Museum), but the analyisis is no longer available. The nuggets are included in the epoxy resin support used for the analysis.

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Kashinite

Formula: 
(Ir,Rh)2S3
Strunz: 
2.DB.15
Hardness: 
7.5
Type Locality: 
Aleksandrov Log Pt deposit, Solov'eva Mtn, Nizhnii Tagil, Sverdlovskaya Oblast', Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia...

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