Stibiopalladinite is a mineral containing the
chemical elements palladium
Palladium is a chemical element with the symbol Pd and atomic number 46. It is a rare and lustrous silvery-white metal discovered in 1803 by the English chemist William Hyde Wollaston. He named it after the asteroid Pallas, which was itself na ...
and
antimony
Antimony is a chemical element with the symbol Sb (from la, stibium) and atomic number 51. A lustrous gray metalloid, it is found in nature mainly as the sulfide mineral stibnite (Sb2S3). Antimony compounds have been known since ancient t ...
. Its chemical formula is Pd
5Sb
2. It is a silvery white to steel grey opaque mineral crystallizing in the
hexagonal crystal system.
It was first described in 1929 for an occurrence in the
Bushveld igneous complex
The Bushveld Igneous Complex (BIC) is the largest layered igneous intrusion within the Earth's crust. It has been tilted and eroded forming the outcrops around what appears to be the edge of a great geological basin: the Transvaal Basin. It i ...
of
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the ...
.
Bibliography
*Emsley, John. ''Nature's Building Blocks.'' Oxford, 2001.
References
Antimonide minerals
Palladium minerals
Hexagonal minerals
Minerals in space group 185
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