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Cooperite, Osmium, Vasilite Vysotskite
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| Mineral: | Cooperite: (Pt,Pd,Ni)S Osmium: (Os,Ir) Vasilite: (Pd,Cu)16(S,Te)7 Vysotskite: (Pd,Ni)S | ||||
| Comments: | BSE image taken with a SEM of the sulfide-dominant microparagenesis filling a gas vacuole. Cooperite crystal surrounded by Pd-Cu-Pt-S phase (vasilite?), vysotskite and osmium laths (white) in chalcopyrite-bornite matrix (dark). (CanMin 38:1258). | ||||
| Location: | Pustaya River placer deposit, situated within the Koryak-Kamchatka platinum-bearing belt of Alaskan-type intrusions in eastern Russia. | ||||
| Scale: | See Image. | ||||
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