stillwaterite
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Stillwaterite is a palladium arsenide mineral which has a general formula of Pd8As3. Stillwaterite was first discovered in the Banded and Upper zones of the Stillwater igneous complex in Montana, United States, and has been reported in the Lac-des-Iles area of Ontario, Canada. Outside of North America, this rare mineral has been found in northern Finland.
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It sits within the topics Arsenide minerals, Minerals in space group 143 and Minerals in space group 147.
Its subject is documented across 6 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- sulfide class of minerals
- Image
- BSE images of platinum-group minerals - Stillwaterite.png
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- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 2.AC.10a
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 2.AC.10a
- crystal system
- trigonal crystal system
- chemical formula
- Pd₈As₃
- Commons category
- Stillwaterite
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Slw
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Symmetry
- Optical properties
- Significance
- References
Stillwaterite is a palladium arsenide mineral which has a general formula of Pd8As3. Stillwaterite was first discovered in the Banded and Upper zones of the Stillwater igneous complex in Montana, United States, and has been reported in the Lac-des-Iles area of Ontario, Canada. Outside of North America, this rare mineral has been found in northern Finland.
==Symmetry== Stillwaterite has hexagonal symmetry, meaning that it has four crystallographic axes: three are horizontal axes of equal length, and the fourth is a vertical axis of different length.
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