Malanite R070051


 Name: Malanite
RRUFF ID: R070051
Ideal Chemistry: Cu1+(Ir3+Pt4+)S4
Locality: placer from Philipp Massif, Kamchatka, Russia
Source: Michael Scott S105075 [view label]
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Silver gray metallic polished fragment embedded in epoxy
Status: The identification of this mineral is not yet confirmed.
Mineral Group: [ Spinel (66) ]
CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R070051.2
Sample Description: Microprobe Fragment
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW
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REFERENCES for Malanite

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Fleischer M, Pabst A, Mandarino J A, Chao G Y, Cabri L J (1976) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 61, 174-186   [view file]

Peng Z, Chang C, Ximen L (1978) Discussion on published articles in the research of new minerals of the platinum-group discovered in China in recent years, Acta Geologica Sinica, 4, 326-336   [view file]

Fleischer M, Cabri L J, Pabst A (1980) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 65, 406-408   [view file]

Fleischer M, Cabri L J, Chao G Y, Mandarino J A, Pabst A (1982) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 67, 1074-1082   [view file]

Garuti G, Gazzotti M, Torres-Ruiz J (1995) Iridium, rhodium, and platinum sulfides in chromitites from the ultramafic massifs of Finero, Italy, and Ojen, Spain, The Canadian Mineralogist, 33, 509-520   [view file]

Yu Z (1996) Malanite - a new cupric platinum (Pt3+) and iridium (Ir3+) sulfide [in Chinese], Acta Geologica Sinica, 70, 309-314   [view file]

Barkov A Y, Halkoaho T A A, Laajoki K V O, Alapieti T T, Peura R A (1997) Ruthenian pyrite and nickeloan malanite from the Imandra layered complex, northwestern Russia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 35, 887-897   [view file]

Jambor J L, Grew E S, Roberts A C (1997) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 82, 820-823   [view file]

Yu Z (1997) Malanite - a new cupric platinum (Pt3+) and iridium (Ir3+) sulphide, Acta Geologica Sinica, 71, 152-157   [view file]

Bowles J F W, Suárez S, Prichard H M, Fisher P C (2018) The mineralogy, geochemistry and genesis of the alluvial platinum-group minerals of the Freetown Layered Complex, Sierra Leone, Mineralogical Magazine, 82, S223-S246

Bosi F, Biagioni C, Pasero M (2019) Nomenclature and classification of the spinel supergroup, European Journal of Mineralogy, 31, 183-192   [view file]