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Formula: Pd3HgTe3
Telluride,
telargpalite group,
mercury- bearing mineral
Crystal System: Trigonal
Specific gravity: 9.45 calculated
Hardness: 2½
Colour: Bright white
Common impurities: Pt,Bi
Environments
Localities
At the type locality, the Copperfields Mine, Phyllis Township, Nipissing District, Ontario, Canada, temagamite
is cogenetic with moderately high-temperature invasive chalcopyrite
magma. It occurs as inclusions in the chalcopyrite up to 30 x 115 microns.
Associated minerals include merenskyite,
hessite, chalcopyrite and
stützite
(CM 12.193-198, HOM).
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