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Formula: Pd3SbTe4
Telluride of palladium and
antimony
Crystal System: Isometric
Specific gravity: 8.25 calculated
Hardness: 3
Colour: Dark grey
Common impurities: Pt,Ni,Fe,Bi
Environments
Localities
At the type locality, the Khautovaara Cu-Ni Deposit, Suojärvi District, Republic of Karelia, Russia, borovskite occurs
as irregular grains 0.01-0.2 mm in size, embedded in pyrrhotite, less often in
chalcopyrite, sometimes intergrown with
altaite, in massive
pentlandite-chalcopyrite-pyrrhotite
ores of hydrothermal origin
(AM 59.873).
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