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Cadmoselite

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Description
Locality: 
Ust' Uyok Deposit, Turan District, Tuva Republic, Russian Federation
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.1 × 0.1 × 0.1 cm
Description

Several black crystal aggregates of the extremely rare cadmium selenium mineral cadmoselite from the type locality in Kasachstan and only one of the very few localities known worldwide., intermixed with quartz and other unidentified minerals.

Cadmium minerals are very rare in Nature, since only 32 from  6017 mineral species known are cadmium minerals !.(source Mindat)

Specimen analyzed by SEM/EDS see copy enclosed.

Don't miss the opportunity to get this extreme rarity, even more in analyzed specimens  !.

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection specimen, from Waregem, Belgium.

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cadmoselite

Formula: 
CdSe
Strunz: 
2.CB.45
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
4.0
Colour: 
Black
Streak: 
Black
Type Locality: 
Ust' Uyok deposit (Ust'-Uyuk), Turan District, Tuva Republic, Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia...

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