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Tolovkite Irarsite Kashinite & Iridium

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Tolovkite Irarsite Kashinite & Iridium

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Description
Locality: 
Tulameen River, Similkameen, British Columbia, Canada
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.1 × 0.1 × 0.1 cm
Description

A completely analyzed nugget by SEM/EDS composed by 4 very rare mineral species of the Platinum Group Minerals: tolovkite (analysis in photo 5) , irarsite (analysis in photo 6), kashinite (analysis in photo 7), native iridium (analysis in photo 8). Some carbon is present in the spectra as organic impurities.

Four Iridium rarities in a single specimen !

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tolovkite

Formula: 
IrSbS
Strunz: 
2.EB.25
Hardness: 
7.5
Type Locality: 
Tolovka River placer, Ust'-Bel'skii ultrabasic Massif, Koryak Upland (Koriak; Koriakskhiye), Koriak Autonomous Okrug, Far-Eastern Region, Russia...

Irarsite

Formula: 
(Ir,Ru,Rh,Pt)AsS
Strunz: 
2.EB.25
Hardness: 
6.5
Type Locality: 
Onverwacht Mine, Lydenburg, Eastern Bushveld Complex, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa

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...

Iridium

Formula: 
(Ir,Os,Ru)
Strunz: 
1.AF.10
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
6.0 - 7.0

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