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Tantalcarbide

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Tantalcarbide

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Locality: 
Avrorinskii Placer, Aktai River, Baranchinsky Massif, Nizhnii Tagil, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russian Federation
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0 × 0 × 0 cm
Description

You are bidding on a capsule that has a pile of tiny grains of pure tantalcarbide from the type locality. Former American Museum of Natural History collection. Extremely rare!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tantalcarbide

Formula: 
TaC
Strunz: 
1.BA.20
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
6.0 - 7.0
Colour: 
Bronze
Type Locality: 
Avrorinskii Placer, Aktai River, Baranchinsky Massif, Nizhnii Tagil, Sverdlovskaya Oblast', Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia...

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