Detailed information
Species
Merenskyite
Dimensions
14 x 15 x 5
mm
Weight
4 g
Locality
Monchegorsk Cu-Ni Deposit Monchegorsk Murmansk Oblast, Russia
Condition
No recorded repairs
Merenskyite is a rare palladium telluride. This thumbnail sized specimen from the Monchegorsk Cu-Ni Deposit, Murmansk Oblast, Russia is a chip of rock sliced and polished on one side to enable its study optically using reflected light microscopy, or chemically, using a Scanning Electron Microscope. It was two small areas on the surface circled, indicating analysis and has the number 3271/21.4 attached to the side. It comes from a well-known rare species collection in Austria whose label documents it as containing Merenskyite and an unknown platinum antimony telluride, that might one day be a new species. Prior to that, it was owned by Dr Hans-Jurgen Wilke (1925-2014) whose record card (which accompanies another Merenskyite specimen) notes that he acquired it in 1991 directly from someone in Kola.
