polarite
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Polarite, is an opaque, yellow-white mineral with the chemical formula . Its crystals are orthorhombic pyramidal, but can only be seen through a microscope. It has a metallic luster and leaves a white streak. Polarite is rated 3.5 to 4 on the Mohs Scale.
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Vinony files it under Bismuth minerals, Lead minerals and Minerals described in 1969.
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- sulfide class of minerals
- Named after
- Polar Ural
- Image
- Palarstanide, Plumbopalladinite, Polarite & Atokite.jpg
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- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 2.AC.40
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 2.AC.40
- streak color
- white
- crystal system
- orthorhombic crystal system
- Commons category
- Polarite
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Plr
- chemical formula
- Pd(Bi,Pb)
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Polarite, is an opaque, yellow-white mineral with the chemical formula . Its crystals are orthorhombic pyramidal, but can only be seen through a microscope. It has a metallic luster and leaves a white streak. Polarite is rated 3.5 to 4 on the Mohs Scale.
It was first described in 1969 for an occurrence in Talnakh, Norilsk in the Polar Ural Mountains in Russia. It has also been recorded from the Bushveld igneous complex of South Africa and from Fox Gulch, Goodnews Bay, Alaska.
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