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Formula: CuZn2
Alloy
Crystal System:
Specific gravity: 7.36 calculated
Hardness: 4
Colour: Silvery white to greyish white
Environments
To date (August 2023) danbaite has been reported only from the type locality.
Localities
The type locality is the Yangliuping Cu-Ni-PGE deposit, Yangliuping Cu-Ni-PGE ore field, Danba county, Garzê Autonomous Prefecture,
Sichuan, China (AES). The deposit is a platinum bearing
copper-nickel deposit in a highly altered
ultramafic intrusion. Danbaite occurs as botryoidal and spherulitic aggregates
to 0.2 mm and as rims around chromium, associated with
pyrrhotite, pentlandite,
chalcopyrite, violarite,
cubanite, bornite,
sphalerite, galena,
linnaeite and magnetite, with minor
testibiopalladite PdTe(Sb,Te) (not yet approved), sudburyite,
sperrylite, omeiite,
gold and electrum
(AM 69.566).
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