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Formula: Pd3Pb2
Alloy of palladium and lead
Specific gravity: 12.36 calculated
Hardness: 5
Colour: White with a rose tint
Common impurities: Ag,Cu,Sn,Bi,Sb
Environments
Localities
At the type locality, the Mayak mine, Talnakh Cu-Ni Deposit, Noril'sk, Putoran Plateau, Taimyr Peninsula,
Taymyrskiy Autonomous Okrug, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, plumbopalladinite occurs as aggregates usually
0.05 to 0.15 mm, but occasionally up to 0.7 mm, of very small grains, in veinlets of
cubanite in talnakhite, usually
closely associated with polarite,
stannopalladinite, native
silver, sphalerite and
galena
(AM 56.1121).
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