Residual mineral in a placer deposit. Intergrown with isoferropatinum and tulameenite within native ruthenium.
IMA Status:
Approved IMA 1998 (Dana # Added)
Locality:
A small unnamed placer deposit in the upper Miass River, South Urals, Russia. Link to MinDat.org Location Data.
Name Origin:
Named after Yuri Aleksandrovich Polkanov (b. 1935), Academician, Institute of Mineral Resources, Academy of Technical Sciences of Ukraine, known for his studies of the mineralogy an d ore deposits of the Crimean Peninsul
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