Temagamite information

Temagamite
Temagamite
General
Category	Telluride mineral
Formula; (repeating unit)	Pd3HgTe3
IMA symbol	Tem
Strunz classification	2.BC.50
Crystal system	Orthorhombic ; Unknown space group
Identification
Color	Bright white to grey
Crystal habit	microscopic included grains
Mohs scale hardness	2.5
Luster	Metallic
Diaphaneity	Opaque
Specific gravity	9.5
Pleochroism	Weak
References

Temagamite is a bright white palladium mercury telluride mineral with a hardness of 2+1⁄2 on the Mohs scale. Its chemical formula is Pd₃HgTe₃. It was discovered at the Temagami Mine on Temagami Island, Lake Temagami in 1973,^[4] and it represents a rare mineral in the Temagami Greenstone Belt.

It occurs as microscopic inclusions within massive chalcopyrite at Temagami in association with other rare tellurides: merenskyite, stützite, hessite and an unnamed Pd-Hg-Ag telluride.^[5] In addition to the discovery locality, it has been reported from the Stillwater igneous complex in Montana and the New Rambler copper–nickel mine in the Medicine Bow Mountains of Wyoming.^[3]

^ Warr, L.N. (2021). "IMA–CNMNC approved mineral symbols". Mineralogical Magazine. 85 (3): 291–320. Bibcode:2021MinM...85..291W. doi:10.1180/mgm.2021.43. S2CID 235729616.
^ http://webmineral.com/data/Temagamite.shtml Webmineral data
^ ^a ^b http://rruff.geo.arizona.edu/doclib/hom/temagamite.pdf Mineral Handbook
^ ^a ^b http://www.mindat.org/min-3908.html Temagamite: Temagamite mineral information and data Retrieved on 2007-08-30
^ http://rruff.geo.arizona.edu/doclib/cm/vol12/CM12_193.pdf Canadian Mineralogist, Vol. ll pp. 193-198 (1973)

[1] Warr, L.N. (2021). "IMA–CNMNC approved mineral symbols". Mineralogical Magazine. 85 (3): 291–320. Bibcode:2021MinM...85..291W. doi:10.1180/mgm.2021.43. S2CID 235729616.

[2] ttp://webmineral.com/data/Temagamite.shtml Webmineral data

[Handbook-3] ttp://rruff.geo.arizona.edu/doclib/hom/temagamite.pdf Mineral Handbook

[Mindat-4] ttp://www.mindat.org/min-3908.html Temagamite: Temagamite mineral information and data Retrieved on 2007-08-30

[5] ttp://rruff.geo.arizona.edu/doclib/cm/vol12/CM12_193.pdf Canadian Mineralogist, Vol. ll pp. 193-198 (1973)

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