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Argentopentlandite & Hessite

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Argentopentlandite & Hessite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Oktyabr'skoye Deposit, Baymak-Buribay District, Bashkortostan, Russian Federation
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
0.5 × 1.6 × 1.6 cm
Description

Polished section of argentopentlandite, hessite etc. (copy of handwritten analysis)

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Argentopentlandite

Formula: 
Ag(Fe,Ni)8S8
Strunz: 
2.BB.15
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
3.5
Type Locality: 
Oktyabr'skoe Cu-Ni deposit (Oktyabr'skoye; Oktyabr'sky), Talnakh Cu-Ni Deposit, Noril'sk, Putoran Plateau, Taimyr Peninsula, Taymyrskiy Autonomous Okrug, Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia...

Hessite

Formula: 
Ag2Te
Strunz: 
2.BA.60
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Streak: 
black
Type Locality: 
Koz'modem'yanskii shaft, Second Zavodinskii Mine (Second Sawodinsk Mine), Zyryanovsk Rayon, Altai Mts (Rudnyi Altai), Eastern Kazakhstan Province (Shyghys Qazaqstan Oblysy; Vostochno-Kazakhstanskaya Oblast'), Kazakhstan...