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Indium (Native)

indium (native)

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A grey-black metallic specimen of the extremely rare native element indium from the type locality in Russia: Orlovskoye, Chitinskaya Oblast, Zabaykalsky Krai, Russian Federation. Native indium is one of the rarest native elements, even more in these completely analyzed specimens like this two, by SEM-EDS, where the analysis show a purity of 96% In, being the remaining Pb, with about 4%. Indium minerals ar every rare in Nature with only 16 In species known from a total of 5638 (source Mindat). Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

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Overview

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

Scientific references

  1. Indium (Native) — Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3798279 Link