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Some new platinoid-rich minerals, identified with the electron microanalyser (Plate XVII)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

E. F. Stumpfl*
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University College, London

Summary

Minerals approximating to the formulae PtSb2, PtSb, Pt(Sb,Bi), (Pt,Ir)As2, Pt(Ir,Os)2As4, Pd2CuSb, Pd(Sb,Bi), Pd8CuSb3, Pt4Sn3Cu4, and (Fe,Ni)2S have been discovered as fine intergrowths in platinum concentrates from the Driekop mine, Transvaal, South Africa. Conventional ore microscopy also proved the presence of most of the known minerals of the platinum paragenesis. The name geversite is proposed for the phase PtSb2.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1961

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