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Rutheniridosmine from Nevyansk, Yekaterinburg, Ural Mountains, Sverdlovsk Oblast', Russia

 
Rutheniridosmine from Nevyansk, Yekaterinburg, Ural Mountains, Sverdlovsk Oblast', Russia

Rutheniridosmine from Nevyansk, Yekaterinburg, Ural Mountains, Sverdlovsk Oblast', Russia

DESCRIPTION:No. 33569
Mineral:Rutheniridosmine
Locality:Nevyansk, Yekaterinburg, Ural Mountains, Sverdlovsk Oblast', Russia
Description:About 10 rounded silver-white metallic placer grains of rutheniridosmine (hexagonal Ir-Os-Ru alloys in which Ir is dominant). Specimen identified as Iridosmine, variety Nevyanskite. New nomenclature suggests this be grouped under the species iridium. Ex. John A. Rorer, Jr. collection #019; purchased in 1948 from A.E. Foote; collected ca. 1895
Overall Size:.2-1.5 mm
Crystals:
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