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Formula: PdBi2
Bismuthide, palladium-bearing mineral
Specific gravity: 12.05 to 12.6
Hardness: 2½
Streak: Black
Colour: Grey
Common impurities: Te
Environments
Froodite occurs in palladium-platinum bearing layered or pipelike
ultramafic intrusives. Associated minerals include
chalcopyrite, cubanite,
pyrite, pentlandite,
altaite, hessite,
galena, bismuth,
pyrrhotite, tsumoite,
parkerite, sudburyite,
michenerite, sperrylite,
insizwaite, niggliite,
cabriite and mooihoekite
(HOM).
Localities
At the type locality, the Frood mine, McKim Township, Sudbury District, Ontario, Canada, froodite was found in mill concentrates of
arsenic and lead-copper
rich ores
(AM 44.207).
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