Click on thumbnails for a larger image. Please be patient since some of these pages of thumbnail images take some time to load. These mineral photos are copyrighted by their owners and may not be used without permission.
Tarkianite: (Cu,Fe)(Re,Mo)4S8
Comments: A euhedral grain of tarkianite associated with sperrylite (Sp) in heavy-mineral concentrate. Plane-polarized light, oil immersion, sample 2_72_6. Location: Sulfide concentrate from Hitura Ni-Cu-PGE mine, Nivala, western central Finland. Scale: See Scale Bar. © Canadian Mineralogist