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Aluminium (Native)

aluminium (native)

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Tiny speck of native aluminium in a capsule. Native aluminium is one of the rarest native elements that can be found in a mineral collection. From: Bulla Island, Caspian Sea, Qobustan District, Azerbaijan.

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Overview

Native aluminium (IMA1980-085a) is a natural occurrence of aluminium metal. Its (co)-type localities are the Billeekh intrusion and the dike OB-255, Sakha Republic. In a gabbro-dolerite of the Billeekh intrusion it occurs with copper, zinc, tin, lead, cadmium, iron, antimony and moissanite. In the occurrence in the Tolbachik volcano in Russia it occurs with magnetite, ilmenite, hematite, pyrite and native iron. In the Getang, Guizhou Province, China, it occurs with copper, sulfur and jarosite.

Scientific references

  1. Aluminium (Native) — Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3612663 Link
  2. Aluminium (Native) — Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_aluminium Link