Vasilite Mineral Gallery

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Vasilite: (Pd,Cu)16(S,Te)7  
Osmium: (Os,Ir)  
Cooperite: (Pt,Pd,Ni)S  
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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Vasilite: (Pd,Cu)16(S,Te)7

Comments: B&W BSE image of an inclusion of vasilite (vas), bowieite (bow) and Pd-bearing troilite (tro) in an isoferroplatinum (iso) matrix..
Location: Novoseltsi, Bourgas region, southeastern Bulgaria. Scale: See Image.
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