oosterboschite
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Oosterboschite is a rare selenide mineral with the formula . It crystallises in the orthorhombic crystal system. It has a creamy yellow colour and a Moh's hardness of 5. It is often found as grains with no clear shape. The crystals are opaque and often no bigger than 0.4 mm.
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Vinony files it under Copper minerals, Minerals described in 1970 and Orthorhombic minerals.
Its subject is documented across 6 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- sulfide class of minerals
- Image
- Oosterboschite, Trogtalite, Cuprosklodowskite, Quartz-384834.jpg
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- streak color
- black
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 2.BC.10
- Commons category
- Oosterboschite
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 2.BC.10
- type locality (geology)
- Musonoi mine
- crystal system
- orthorhombic crystal system
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Oos
- chemical formula
- (Pd,Cu)₇Se₅
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Oosterboschite is a rare selenide mineral with the formula . It crystallises in the orthorhombic crystal system. It has a creamy yellow colour and a Moh's hardness of 5. It is often found as grains with no clear shape. The crystals are opaque and often no bigger than 0.4 mm.
== Occurrence == The mineral was approved by the IMA in 1970, after being discovered in the Musonoi Cu–Co mine, near Kolwezi, Katanga Province, Congo. It was later also discovered at the Copper Hills prospect, East Pilbara, Australia, and at Hope’s Nose, Torquay, Devon, England. It is often found in the oxidation zones of the mines, together with verbeekite, trogtalite, selenian digenite, covellite, gold, and chrisstanleyite. It was named after Robert Oosterbosch, a Belgian mining engineer that was very active in the Katanga region, where the type locality is also located.
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