athabascaite
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Athabascaite is a member of the copper selenide minerals, and forms with other copper selenides. It was first discovered by S. Kaiman in 1949 while he was researching radioactive materials around Lake Athabasca. Kaiman was conducting research near Uranium City, Saskatchewan where mass amounts of uranium mines were present.
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- sulfide class of minerals
- Named after
- Lake Athabasca
- Image
- Athabascaite.jpg
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- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 2.BA.25
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 2.BA.15d
- crystal system
- orthorhombic crystal system
- chemical formula
- Cu₅Se₄
- Mohs' hardness
- 2.5
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Atb
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Athabascaite is a member of the copper selenide minerals, and forms with other copper selenides. It was first discovered by S. Kaiman in 1949 while he was researching radioactive materials around Lake Athabasca. Kaiman was conducting research near Uranium City, Saskatchewan where mass amounts of uranium mines were present.
==History== Kaiman sent his specimens for testing to J. W. Earley, then a graduate student. With the invention of the microprobe analyzer, D.C. Harris decided to delve further into the virtually unknown mineral with little success.
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