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Tetraferroplatinum Irarsite & Hollingworthite

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Tetraferroplatinum Irarsite & Hollingworthite

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Description
Locality: 
Baimka River Placer Deposit, Bol'shoi Anyui Basin, Kolyma, Chukotka, Russian Federation
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.1 × 0.1 × 0.1 cm
Description

Tiny inclusions of irarsite ( Iridium-Ruthenium-Platinum-Rhodium Arsenide ), prassoite ( Rhodium Sulfide ), erlichmanite ( Osmium Sulfide ), cooperite ( Nickel-Palladium-Platinum Sulfide ) and hollingworthite  (Rhenium-Platinum-Palladium Arsenide ) in tetraferroplatinum and platinum micronuggets. These micronuggets are mounted in synthetic matrix - probe

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tetraferroplatinum

Formula: 
PtFe
Strunz: 
1.AG.40
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
4.0 - 5.0
Type Locality: 
Placer Deposits, Tulameen River, Similkameen Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada

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

Hollingworthite

Formula: 
(Rh,Pt,Pd)AsS
Strunz: 
2.EB.25
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
Colour: 
Grey
Type Locality: 
Driekop mine, Sekhukhuneland, Burgersfort, Bushveld Complex, Limpopo Province, South Africa
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