talnakhite
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Talnakhite is a mineral of chalcopyrite group with formula: Cu9(Fe, Ni)8S16. It was named after the Talnakh ore deposit, near Norilsk in Western Siberia, Russia where it was discovered as reported in 1963 by I. Budko and E. Kulagov. It was officially named "talnakhite" in 1968. Despite the initial announcement it turned out to be not a face centered high-temperature polymorph of chalcopyrite, but to have composition Cu18(Fe, Ni)18S32. At to it decomposes to tetragonal cubanite plus bornite.
Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Talnakhite
- Mineral.image
- Putoranite, Talnakhite - Mineralogisches Museum Bonn3.jpg
- Mineral.imagesize
- 260px
- Mineral.caption
- Talnakhite and putoranite
- Mineral.category
- Sulfide mineral
- Mineral.formula
- Cu9(Fe, Ni)8S16
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Tlk
- Mineral.strunz
- 2.CB.10b
- Mineral.system
- Isometric
- Mineral.class
- Hextetrahedral (3m) H-M symbol: ( 3m)
- Mineral.symmetry
- I 3m
- Mineral.color
- Brass-yellow, tarnishes to pink or brown tints, then iridescent
- Mineral.luster
- Metallic
- Mineral.diaphaneity
- Opaque
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- sulfide class of minerals
- Image
- Putoranite, Talnakhite - Mineralogisches Museum Bonn3.jpg
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- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 2.CB.10b
- Commons category
- Talnakhite
- chemical formula
- Cu₉Fe₈S₁₆
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 2.CB.10b
- crystal system
- cubic crystal system
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Tlk
- Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
- II/B.02
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Talnakhite is a mineral of chalcopyrite group with formula: Cu9(Fe, Ni)8S16. It was named after the Talnakh ore deposit, near Norilsk in Western Siberia, Russia where it was discovered as reported in 1963 by I. Budko and E. Kulagov. It was officially named "talnakhite" in 1968. Despite the initial announcement it turned out to be not a face centered high-temperature polymorph of chalcopyrite, but to have composition Cu18(Fe, Ni)18S32. At to it decomposes to tetragonal cubanite plus bornite.
==References==
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