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Paolovite & Cabriite

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Paolovite & Cabriite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Oktyabr'skoye Deposit, Baymak-Buribay District, Bashkortostan, Russian Federation
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.7 × 2.6 × 0.4 cm
Description

Polished section of ore with visible by unequipped eye rhomb-like crystal section of paolovite - rare intermetallide Pd2Sn. Associating minerals are cabriite, geversite, froodite and sperrylite.

Large specimen very rich in extremely rare species !

Analyzed by Prof. Rudashevsky

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Paolovite

Formula: 
Pd2Sn
Strunz: 
1.AG.20
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
5.0
Colour: 
White
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...

Cabriite

Formula: 
Pd2CuSn
Strunz: 
1.AG.30
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
4.0
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...
Analysis
Analysis Report - only: Paolovite & Cabriite
Analysis Report - only: Paolovite & Cabriite