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Name: Iridium RRUFF ID: R070258 Ideal Chemistry: Ir Locality: Fox Gulch, Salmon River - Red Mountain district, Goodnews Bay, Bethel Borough, Alaska, USA Source: Michael Scott S102878 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Metallic gray single grain Status: The identification of this mineral is not yet confirmed. |
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Mineral Group: [ Copper (13) ] |
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REFERENCES for Iridium | |
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American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record] |
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Anthony J W, Bideaux R A, Bladh K W, and Nichols M C (1990) Handbook of Mineralogy, Mineral Data Publishing, Tucson Arizona, USA, by permission of the Mineralogical Society of America. [view file] |
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Tennant S (1804) On two metals, found in the black powder remaining after the solution of platina, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 329, 411-418 [view file] |
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Harris D C, Cabri L J (1973) The nomenclature of the natural alloys of osmium, iridium and ruthenium based on new compositional data of alloys from world-wide occurrences, The Canadian Mineralogist, 12, 104-112 [view file] |
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Page N J, Talkington R W (1984) Palladium, platinum, rhodium, ruthenium and iridium in peridotites and chromitites from ophiolite complexes in Newfoundland, The Canadian Mineralogist, 22, 137-149 [view file] |
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Harris D C, Cabri L J (1991) Nomenclature of platinum-group-element alloys: review and revision, The Canadian Mineralogist, 29, 231-237 [view file] |
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Jambor J L, Grew E S (1992) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 77, 207-213 [view file] |
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Bowles J F W, Suárez S, Prichard H M, Fisher P C (2018) Inclusions in an isoferroplatinum nugget from the Freetown Layered Complex, Sierra Leone, Mineralogical Magazine, 82, 577–592 |
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