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Cadmium (Native)

cadmium (native)

:A lot of very small native cadmium nuggets from the type locality for the mineral and only one of the four known localities worldwide: Ust'-Khann'ya Intrusion, Lower Khann'ya River, Vil, Eastern Siberia, Russian Federation. Native cadmium is one of the rarest native elements, and a very sought after mineral for the collectors of native elements, since this species is almost never seen on the mineral market, much less in well identified and analyzed specimens, like this one (by SEM/EDS). The purity of the cadmium nuggets is 97,7 % (total percentage) or 94,6% (atomic percentage). In the photo there are some honey yellow sphalerite as an impurity.

David Hospital / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

Overview

Cadmium (Native) is a mineral species (mineral (as opposed to the chemical element)). It crystallises in the hexagonal system. Nickel–Strunz class: 1.AB.05.

Scientific references

  1. Cadmium (Native) — Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3649475 Link