Temagamite

General
Category| Telluride mineral
Formula
(repeating unit)| Pd3HgTe3
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
|re|er}}| Metallic
Diaphaneity| Opaque
Specific gravity| 9.5
Pleochroism| Weak
References| [1][2][3]

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,[3] 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.[2]

## See also

* List of minerals

## References

1. ↑ http://webmineral.com/data/Temagamite.shtml Webmineral data
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 http://rruff.geo.arizona.edu/doclib/hom/temagamite.pdf Mineral Handbook
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 http://www.mindat.org/min-3908.html Temagamite: Temagamite mineral information and data Retrieved on 2007-08-30
4. ↑ Warr, L.N. (2021). "IMA–CNMNC approved mineral symbols". Mineralogical Magazine 85 (3): 291–320. doi:10.1180/mgm.2021.43. Bibcode: 2021MinM...85..291W.
5. ↑ http://rruff.geo.arizona.edu/doclib/cm/vol12/CM12_193.pdf Canadian Mineralogist, Vol. ll pp. 193-198 (1973)

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