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Article: Sperrylite.
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- Rocks & Minerals
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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Talnakh, Noril'sk District, Siberia, Russia
Until a few years ago, the acquisition of good specimens of any platinum-group mineral was difficult at best. Generally, collectors were faced with expensive prices for tiny metallic grains that could be almost anything. Even with respect to one of the group's few collectible species, sperrylite, only small single crystals were occasionally available, but virtually never on matrix. So rare were sperrylite matrix pieces that, despite its discovery in 1889 in the famous nickel deposits at Sudbury, Ontario, even the Royal Ontario Museum had nary a one until 1969, and then only due to the fortuitous efforts of collectors ...
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Article: Cluff refused dual listing in South Africa.
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... ... company, which has assets in South Africa, Gabon, Burkina Faso and ... company having assets in South Africa. Cluff Mining sought to ... CLUFF MINING LIMITED: SPERRYLITE: RESERVE BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA: ANGLO AMERICAN PLC: INVESTEC ...
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