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Formula: PdSb
Antimonide,
nickeline group, forms series with
sobolevskite and with kotulskite,
palladium-bearing mineral
Crystal System: Hexagonal
Specific gravity: 9.37 measured, 9.41 calculated
Hardness: 4½
Colour: White
Environments
Metamorphic environments
Hydrothermal environments
Localities
At the type locality, the Copper Cliff South Mine, Snider Township, Sudbury District, Ontario, Canada, sudburyite
occurs as inclusions in either arsenic-bearing sulphosalts or arsenides, most frequently in
cobaltite and maucherite, and it is
also closely associated with breithauptite,
galena, nickeline and
chalcopyrite. Pentlandite,
pyrrhotite and michenerite also
occurred in the samples
(CM 12.275-279).
At the Yangliuping Cu-Ni-PGE ore field, Danba county, Garzê Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China, sudburyite is
associated with pyrrhotite, pentlandite,
chalcopyrite, violarite,
cubanite, bornite,
sphalerite, galena,
linnaeite, magnetite,
testibiopalladite, sperrylite,
omeiite and gold
(HOM).
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