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Sopcheite & Hessite

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Sopcheite & Hessite

EDS conf. specimen no 20-01-5-RU3

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Description
Locality: 
Rustenburg, Bojanala District, North West Province, South Africa
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.1 × 1.7 × 0.6 cm
Description

This polished section hosts kotulskite (spot d, e, k), sopcheite (spot h), hessite (spot j), moncheite (spot c), altaite (spot i) and plumbian arsenian antimonian atokite (spot b). Analysis of moncheite, sopcheite and hessite attached. Some minerals are new in the list of the known minerals of Rustenburg.

Rare mineral. 

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Sopcheite

Formula: 
Ag4Pd3Te4
Strunz: 
2.BC.55
Hardness: 
3.5
Colour: 
Gray
Type Locality: 
Sopcha Mt, Monchegorsk Cu-Ni Deposit, Monchegorsk, Monche-Tundra, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', Northern 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...
Analysis
Analysis Report - only: Sopcheite & Hessite
Analysis Report - only: Sopcheite & Hessite
Analysis Report - only: Sopcheite & Hessite
Analysis Report - only: Sopcheite & Hessite