Tarkianite

(repeating unit)(Cu,Fe)(Re,Mo)4S8Strunz classification2.DB.30Crystal systemIsometricIdentificationColorBlackLusterMetallicStreakBlackDiaphaneityOpaqueReferences[1]

Tarkianite is a rhenium sulfide mineral. Its type locality is the Hitura Nickel Mine in Nivala, Finland. It was approved as the first rhenium mineral in 2003 and formally described in 2004. [2]

References

  1. ^ Mindat.org
  2. ^ Kojonen, Kari K.; Andrew C. Roberts; Olli-Pekka Isomäki; Vladimir V. Knauf; Bo Johanson; Lassi Pakkanen (2004). "Tarkianite, (Cu,Fe)(Re,Mo)4S8, A new mineral species from the Hitura Mine, Nivala, Finland". The Canadian Mineralogist. 42: 539–544.


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