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Name: Palladium RRUFF ID: R070339 Ideal Chemistry: Pd Locality: Gongo Soco mine, Quadrilátero FerrĂfero, Minas Gerais; Southeast, Brazil Source: Michael Scott S105927 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Light gray metallic 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 Palladium | |
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American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record] |
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Chenevix R (1803) Enquiries concerning the nature of a metallic substance lately sold in London, as a new metal, under the title of palladium, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 93, 290-320 [view file] |
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Wollaston W H (1804) On a new metal, found in crude platina, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 94, 419-430 [view file] |
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Cabri L J, Laflamme J H G, Stewart J M (1973) Temagamite, a new palladium-mercury telluride from the Temagami copper deposit, Ontario, Canada, The Canadian Mineralogist, 12, 193-198 [view file] |
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Conn H K (1979) The Johns Manville platinum palladium prospect, Stillwater complex, Montanta U.S.A., The Canadian Mineralogist, 17, 463-468 [view file] |
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Page N J, Pallister J S, Brown M A, Smewing J D, Haffty J (1982) Palladium, platinum, rhodium, iridium and ruthenium in chromiterich rocks from the Samail ophiolite, Oman, The Canadian Mineralogist, 20, 537-548 [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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Prichard H M, Lord R A (1990) Platinum and palladium in the Troodos ophiolite complex, Cyprus, The Canadian Mineralogist, 28, 607-617 [view file] |
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Wood S A, Mountain B W, Pan P (1992) The aqueous geochemistry of platinum, palladium and gold: recent experimental constraints and a re-evaluation of theoretical predictions, The Canadian Mineralogist, 30, 955-982 [view file] |
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Cabral A R, Lehmann B, Kwitko-Ribeiro R, Cravo Costa C H (2002) Palladium and platinum minerals from the Serra Pelada Au-Pd-Pt deposit, Carajás mineral province, northern Brazil, The Canadian Mineralogist, 40, 1451-1463 [view file] |
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Fleet M E, de Almeida C M, Angeli N (2002) Botryoidal platinum, palladium and potarite from the Bom Sucesso Stream, Minas Gerais, Brazil: compositional zoning and origin, The Canadian Mineralogist, 40, 341-355 [view file] |
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Cabral A R, Lehmann B, Kwitko-Ribeiro R, Jones R D, Rocha Filho O G (2003) On the association of palladium-bearing gold, hematite, and gypsum in an Ouro Preto nugget, The Canadian Mineralogist, 41, 473-478 [view file] |
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Boudreau A E (2004) Palladium, a program to model the chromatographic separation of the platinum-group elements, base metals and sulfur in a solidifying pile of igneous crystals, The Canadian Mineralogist, 42, 393-403 [view file] |
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Wood S A, van Middlesworth J (2004) The influence of acetate and oxalate as simple organic ligands on the behavior of palladium in surface environments, The Canadian Mineralogist, 42, 411-421 [view file] |
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Bindi L, Zaccarini F, Garuti G, Angeli N (2013) The solid solution between platinum and palladium in nature, Mineralogical Magazine, 77, 269-274 [view file] |
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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 |
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