Kalgoorlieite (IMA2015-119) is a mineral from

Kalgoorlie, Western Australia Kalgoorlie is a city in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia, located east-northeast of Perth at the end of the Great Eastern Highway. It is sometimes referred to as Kalgoorlie–Boulder, as the surrounding urban area include ...

. Kalgoorlieite is the fourth oxygen-free

arsenic Arsenic is a chemical element with the symbol As and atomic number 33. Arsenic occurs in many minerals, usually in combination with sulfur and metals, but also as a pure elemental crystal. Arsenic is a metalloid. It has various allotropes, ...

tellurium Tellurium is a chemical element with the symbol Te and atomic number 52. It is a brittle, mildly toxic, rare, silver-white metalloid. Tellurium is chemically related to selenium and sulfur, all three of which are chalcogens. It is occasionall ...

mineral after benleonardite, debattistiite, and törnroosite. It was discovered in 2015 by a Curtin University academic Dr Kirsten Rempel while she was checking samples in the Kalgoorlie School of Mines Museum, and declared a new mineral in 2016, after verification and classification.

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