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Vasilite

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Description
Locality: 
Konstantinovo, Kameno Municipality, Burgas Oblast, Bulgaria
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.03 × 0.03 × 0.03 cm
Description

A lot of steel grey very small grains of the extremely rare Pd-Cu-S-Te mineral vasilite from the type locality in Bulgaria and associated to minoritary gold nuggets (for example, in photo 1 you can see two of them) in a capsule.

Probably analyzed 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

Vasilite

Formula: 
(Pd,Cu)16(S,Te)7
Strunz: 
2.BC.25
Hardness: 
5.0 - 5.5
Type Locality: 
Konstantinovo (Novoseltsi), Kameno Obshtina, Burgas Oblast (Bourgas Oblast), Bulgaria

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