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Menshikovite Vincentite Palladoarsenide & Merenskyite

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Menshikovite Vincentite Palladoarsenide & Merenskyite

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Description
Locality: 
Marathon Deposit, Skipper Lake, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0 × 0 × 0 cm
Description

You are bidding on an extensively and thoroughly analyzed polished probe bearing extremely rare menshikovite and vincentite as well as mertieite-II, merenskyite, palladoarsenide, sperrylite, sobolevskite, Pd-rich gersdorfite, electrum and several undetermined or perhaps new phases. 10 points of analysis with over 30 pages of results! The resin bearer measures 2.5cm for scale. Incredible group of rare minerals with potential for further study. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Menshikovite

Formula: 
Pd3Ni2As3
Strunz: 
2.AC.20c
Hardness: 
5.0 - 0.0
Colour: 
White
Streak: 
Grey
Type Locality: 
Chineyskoye Fe-Ti-V deposit, Chiney massif, Chitinskaya Oblast', Transbaikalia (Zabaykalye), Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia...

Vincentite

Formula: 
Pd3As
Strunz: 
2.AC.05b
Hardness: 
5.0
Type Locality: 
Riam Kanan, Kalimantan Selatan Province (South Kalimantan Province), Kalimantan Island (Borneo Island), Indonesia

Palladoarsenide

Formula: 
Pd2As
Strunz: 
2.AC.25a
Hardness: 
5.0
Type Locality: 
Komsomol'skii Mine (Komsomol'sky), Talnakh Cu-Ni Deposit, Noril'sk, Putoran Plateau, Taimyr Peninsula, Taymyrskiy Autonomous Okrug, Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia...

Merenskyite

Formula: 
(Pd,Pt)(Te,Bi)2
Strunz: 
2.EA.20
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Colour: 
White
Type Locality: 
Merensky Reef, Western Bushveld Complex, Bojanala Platinum District, North West Province, South Africa
Analysis
Analysis Report - only: Menshikovite Vincentite Palladoarsenide & Merenskyite

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