Aluminium

aluminium

moissanite

jarosite

ilmenite

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Formula: Al
Native element, gold group
Specific gravity: 2.7
Hardness: 2 to 3½
Colour: Greyish white
Melting point: 660.32oC
Boiling point: 2466.85oC
Abundance: 8.23 % by mass in the Earth's crust, 56 ppm by mass in the Solar system
Environments

Plutonic igneous environments
Sedimentary environments
Hydrothermal environments

Native aluminium occurs in aluminium-rich rocks, in high-temperature hydrothermal tin-tungsten deposits and their alteration zones and in volcanic ash. Associated minerals include antimony, cadmium, copper, hematite, ilmenite, iron, jarosite, lead, magnetite, moissanite, pyrite, sulphur, tin and zinc (Mindat).

Localities

At the Getang Au-Sb deposit, Anlong county, Qianxi'nan, Guizhou, China, native aluminium is associated with copper, sulphur and jarosite (HOM).

There are two co-type localities, the Billeekh Intrusion and Dike OB-255, both in the Sakha Republic, Russia. Here native aluminium occurs in a gabbro-dolerite massif associated with zinc, tin, moissanite, lead, iron, copper, cadmium and antimony (HOM, Mindat).

At the Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka Krai, Russia, native aluminium is associated with magnetite, ilmenite, hematite, pyrite and iron (HOM).

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