In andesine diabases and in ultramafic layered intrusives. As disseminations that probably are crystallized products, at magmatic temperatures, of a residual immiscible sulfide melt .
IMA Status:
Approved IMA 1962
Locality:
Noril'sk region, Noyask, western Siberia, Russia. Link to MinDat.org Location Data.
Name Origin:
Named for N. K. Vysotskii, Soviet geologist, who first found platinum at Noril'sk, Russia.
Chemical Formula: 