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Iridarsenite Bowieite & Kashinite

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Iridarsenite Bowieite & Kashinite

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Description
Locality: 
Soloveva Mountain, Prigorodny District, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russian Federation
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1 × 0.6 × 0.3 cm
Description

Polished section of iridarsenite, bowieite, kashinite (comes with handwritten notes)

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Iridarsenite

Formula: 
(Ir,Ru)As2
Strunz: 
2.AC.45b
Hardness: 
5.0 - 5.5
Type Locality: 
Waria River, Ioma area, Northern Province (Oro Province), Papua New Guinea

Bowieite

Formula: 
(Rh,Ir,Pt)2S3
Strunz: 
2.DB.15
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
7.0
Type Locality: 
Salmon River - Red Mountain District, Goodnews Bay, Bethel Borough, Alaska, USA

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...