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Cadmoselite

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Description
Locality: 
Ust' Uyok Deposit, Turan District, Tuva Republic, Russian Federation
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.1 × 0.1 × 0.1 cm
Description

Several (about 5 ) black crystal aggregates of the extremely rare cadmium selenide mineral cadmoselite in a capsule from the type locality in Kasachstan and only one of the very few localities known worldwide.

Cadmium minerals are very rare in Nature, since only 28 from more than 5793 mineral species known are cadmium minerals!

Specimen analyzed by SEM/EDS see copy enclosed.

Don't miss the opportunity to get this extreme rarity, even more in analyzed specimens  !.

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection specimen, from Waregem, Belgium.

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cadmoselite

Formula: 
CdSe
Strunz: 
2.CB.45
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
4.0
Colour: 
Black
Streak: 
Black
Type Locality: 
Ust' Uyok deposit (Ust'-Uyuk), Turan District, Tuva Republic, Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia...

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