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Formula: (Pd,Ni)S
Sulphide, forms a series with braggite
Crystal System: Tetragonal
Specific gravity: 6.705 calculated
Hardness: 1½
Colour: White
Common impurities: Pt
Environments
Vysotskite occurs in andesine
dolerite at the type locality, and in
ultramafic layered intrusives elsewhere. It forms as disseminations that
probably are crystallised products, at magmatic temperatures, of a residual immiscible sulphide melt
(HOM). It is commonly associated with cooperite, and it is an ore of
platinum group minerals
(Mindat).
Localities
At the Hongshila Pt-Pd deposit, Boluonuo, Fengning County, Chengde, Hebei, China, vysotskite is associated with
hongshiite, cooperite,
sperrylite, isomertieite,
magnetite, bornite,
polydymite, diopside,
actinolite and epidote
(HOM).
At the type locality, the Severniy Mine, Talnakh Cu-Ni Deposit, Noril'sk, Putoran Plateau, Taimyr Peninsula, Taymyrskiy
Autonomous Okrug, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, vysotskite occurs mainly as minute irregular deposits, rarely as
well-formed prismatic crystals up to 0.07 mm, in disseminated ores in andesine
dolerite in the northern part of the deposit, associated with
chalocopyrite, millerite (very
rare elsewhere in the deposit), nickel-rich
pyrite, linnaeite and
cooperite. It was formed at a late stage
(AM 48.708).
At the Stillwater Complex, Montana, USA, vysotskite is associated with
pentlandite, pyrrhotite,
chalcopyrite, cubanite,
nickel-rich mackinawite,
gold, braggite,
cooperite, moncheite,
isoferroplatinum,
kotulskite, keithconnite and
palladium-rich tulameenite
(HOM).
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