Skip to content
Mineralati

Minerals

Bowieite

bowieite

Bowieite - a rhodium-iridium-platinum sulfide mineral - Assignment Point

Bowieite - a rhodium-iridium-platinum sulfide mineral - Assignment Point — via assignmentpoint.com · Source

Overview

Bowieite is a rhodium-iridium-platinum sulfide mineral (Rh,Ir,Pt)2S3, found in platinum-alloy nuggets from Goodnews Bay, Alaska. It was named (by the IMA in 1984) after the British scientist Stanley Bowie (1917–2008), in recognition of his work on identification of opaque minerals. The mineral crystallizes in the orthorhombic crystal system (space group Pbcn).

Scientific references

  1. Bowieite — Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3643249 Link
  2. Bowieite — Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowieite Link