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	Rocks & Minerals: Sperrylite
		Sperrylite is a tin-white mineral known for its brilliant metallic luster.
		Sperrylite is cubic (2/m3) and is typically seen in well-developed cubes or cuboctahedra, some of which are so highly modified that crystal edges and corners appear rounded.
		Elsewhere in Canada sperrylite has been reported from the Donaldson West deposit and with pentlandite, cubanite, and sphalerite at the Rottenstone mine on the southeast shore of Rottenstone Lake, Quebec; on the D and R claims along the Tulameen River; and in fl sands of the Fraser River near Lytton, British Columbia.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0GDX/is_1_76/ai_69201590 (1324 words)

	SPERRYLITE (Platinum Arsenide)
		Sperrylite is found in abundance only at Sudbury, Ontario where it is mined for its extremely valuable metal.
		Sperrylite is a cousin of the much more common and well known mineral, pyrite.
		The difference between the two structures is that the single sulfur of galena is replaced by a pair of sulfurs in sperrylite.
	mineral.galleries.com /minerals/sulfides/sperryli/sperryli.htm (294 words)

	Mineralogical Record: Nickel and platinum-group element deposits at Noril'sk, Siberia
		The majority of the platinum (9095%) in disseminated ore is found as sperrylite, with 1.2 ppm in pyrrhotite and pentlandite.
		Platinum massive ores occur as sperrylite in pyrrhotite ores and as tetraferroplatinum, rustenburgite, maslovite and moncheite.
		Very fine sperrylite and native platinum crystals are available for the collector; however, the rare platinum, palladium, iridium, rhodium, osmium and ruthenium minerals are found mainly as microscopic grains.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3672/is_200101/ai_n8938774 (905 words)

	Sperylite - Project DESTARTER; Collecting non polupar keyphrases. sorentine - sorentino - sourbery - sparowgrass - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Full text of the article, 'Sperrylite' from Rocks and Minerals, a publication in the field of Reference and Education, is provided free of charge by LookSmart's FindArticles service.
		Of the group's few collectible species, sperrylite, only small single crystals were occasionally available So rare were sperrylite matrix pieces that, despite its discovery in 1889.
		Sperrylite is a compound of platinum and arsenic with the composition PtAs2.
	www.destarter.com /sperrylite/sperylite.html (359 words)

	www.mineweb.net \| co_releases Ridge Mining (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		On 4 July 2002, Ridge announced that it had consented to the assignment by the former owners of Sperrylite Resources (Pty) Limited (“Sperrylite”) of their rights under the Sperrylite Acquisition Agreement to Rosario, a company with which Ridge’s former Director Mzi Khumalo is associated.
		Sperrylite held rights to a number of platinum group metal (“PGM”) exploration interests in South Africa and was acquired by Ridge in 2001.
		The termination of the Sperrylite Acquisition Agreement will be in full and final settlement of any and all claims known or arising in the future out of the subject matter of the Sperrylite acquisition which Ridge and/or Rosario may have against the other (including current or former officers and employees of either party).
	www.mineweb.net /co_releases/453690.htm (565 words)

	Platinum-group minerals in the Raglan Ni-Cu-(PGE) sulfide deposit, Cape Smith, Quebec, Canad
		Sperrylite is more abundant at Katiniq, and merenskyite is more abundant in Zone 2.
		This fact is demonstrated by the occurrence of sudburyite and, more rarely, sperrylite within carbonate in secondary veins and in shear zones.
		The morphology of the PGM has been extensively modified during this low-temperature alteration, with sperrylite crystals losing their euhedral form where parts of the crystal are in contact with altered silicates.
	pubs.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca /mineral/tcm-48542-2.html (808 words)

	Creamer Media's Mining Weekly Online, South African Mining News :: Explosive & Non-Explosive Mining Method (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Through the agreement, Cluff consented to the assignment by the former owners of Sperrylite Resources of their rights to Rosario International Investments.
		Sperrylite held rights to a number of platinum group metal exploration interests in South Africa and was acquired by Cluff in 2001.
		However, under the rights transfer, Rosario was entitled to be issued up to 2,7-million new Cluff shares, to be issued by the on definition of certain resources at Blue Ridge, Sheba’s Ridge, Fonte Verde and Blue Sky North.
	www.miningweekly.co.za /min/features/explosive?show=42918 (525 words)

	Sperrylite Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		This specimen is composed of about a dozen crystals of sperrylite from 5mm to 17mm in size, perched atop the rim of a well-trimmed matrix.
		This bright, metallic specimen consists of of a rich vein of sperrylite from which project crystals at the top, to 6 mm in size.
		The specimen actually has MORE crystals of 2-4 mm on the other side (though the 6 mm crystal has a ding on that rear-facing corner), but it is really difficult to photograph so we simply took the shots we could get of one side and the edge view.
	www.mindat.org /gallery.php?min=3723 (632 words)

	platinum
		These are found in the alluvial deposits of the Ural mountains, of Columbia, and of certain western American states.
		Sperrylite (PtAs2), occurring with the nickel-bearing deposits of Sudbury, Ontario, is the source of a considerable amount of metal.
		The large production of nickel offsets there being only one part of the platinum metals in two million parts of ore. Platinum is a beautiful silvery-white metal, when pure, and is malleable and ductile.
	www.speclab.com /elements/platinum.htm (734 words)

	Fine Mineral Specimens for Sale
		Sperrylite from the INCO Vermilion Mine, Whitefish, (SW of Sudbury), Ontario, Canada.
		Includes a sperrylite cube, an octahedron and broken crystals in chalcopyrite with accessory native gold.
		The old dumps are long gone as they were removed for processing for platinum.
	www.selectminerals.com /min8.html (991 words)

	THE BAN PHUC Ni—Cu—PGE DEPOSIT RELATED TO THE PHANEROZOIC KOMATIITE—BASALT ASSOCIATION IN THE SONG DA RIFT, ...
		In the central part, it is composed of massive chalcopyrite – pentlandite – (violarite) – pyrrhotite ores with associated sulfarsenides of Ni and Co, heazlewoodite, tsumoite, parkerite, sperrylite, and michenerite.
		Later on, fractional crystallization of a fluid-bearing sulfide melt was the most important factor in the formation of ore. Enrichment of Cu-bearing ores from zonal orebodies in Pd and Au corresponds to their concentration in the residual sulfide melt during fractionation of Mss.
		The unusual Pt concentrations of the Fe–Ni ores are due to the presence of sperrylite, which contains between 0.9 and 3.4 wt.% Sb at the high-temperature stage (900—1000°C) of the volatile-saturated sulfide.
	www.nrc.ca /cisti/journals/mineral/tcm-57339-2.html (729 words)

	www.mineweb.net \| sections \| mining finance The Cluff Mining deal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Through his interest in Rosario International Investments and Gibbs International, Khumalo was said by Cluff to be interested in 3.5m ordinary shares in Cluff.
		Cluff had previously given Sperrylite staged payments in Cluff shares, subject to certain performance criteria.
		The SA Reserve Bank insists that nobody paid in shares by an overseas company, even if its assets are in SA, can retain more than £75 000 in value for more than 90 days.
	www.mineweb.net /sections/mining_finance/19580.htm (284 words)

	E PGMs in Outocumpu Ophiolites (Finland)
		However, we shall mark, that replacement of anduoite by irarsite allows us to suppose that anduoite is synchronous to laurite, erlichmanite and sperrylite and, consequently, to formation of ultramafic complex itself.
		And the process of transformation of primary crystallization PGE minerals (laurite, erlichmanite, sperrylite) results in formation of both irarsite and gersdorffite.
		This conclusion is confirmed by the fact that Os, Ir, Ru Rh in variable (but considerable) quantities enter into the composition of gersdorffite.
	www.natires.com /epgm_outo.htm (1284 words)

	CNT Mineral Consulting :: Native gold ores
		Sperrylite crystals separated from heavy concentrate of the "fl sand" sample by hand
		Different shape of crystals and grains of sperrylite (a-l) in the "fl sand" sample.
		Different PGMs (apart from sperrylite) from the "fl sand" sample.
	www.cnt-mc.com /services/research/native-gold-ores.html (301 words)

	Definition of Sperrylite in Webster's Dictionary 1913 Edition - Wunder Dictionary
		Definition of Sperrylite in Webster's Dictionary 1913 Edition
		An arsenide of platinum occuring in grains and minute isometric crystals of tin-white color.
		It is found near Sudbury, Ontario Canada, and is the only known compound of platinum occuring in nature.
	websters.wunderdictionary.com /dictionary/def/english/sperrylite.html (51 words)

	Volume 7, Number 2
		Under natural conditions, sperrylite and aurostibite are encountered as individual minerals on contacts with melts of noble metals in ultrabasic rocks, being the result of the high-temperature evolution of the magmatic process.
		Therefore, the synthesis of these compounds from elements requires high temperatures and, in addition, the melting process should be performed in closed furnaces with an inert atmosphere preventing evaporation and oxidation of the components, especially in the case of arsenic.
		In solving the problems related to the role of the sublayer crystal structure where epitaxial films of a new compound may grow, great possibilities are provided by the software 'CrystPic', which in terms of the system 'Mincryst' [6] allows measure the lengths of intertatomic bonds in the lattice, distinguish plane fragments.
	library.iem.ac.ru /exper/v7_2/hydro.html (6053 words)

	SPERRYLITE Specimens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		I am also impressed by the crystals - they are bright and lustrous, tin-white in color, and have a combination form that in places looks cubic, and in others looks like a pyritohedron.
		They do have a surface tarnish in places (which dulls the luster), and the bright faces appear (with the aid of a loupe) to have a network of fine surface cracks.
		There is another mineral present, on the bottom and between the larger sperrylite crystals, that looks like chalcopyrite.
	mineral.galleries.com /scripts/item.exe?ENLARGE+Minerals+Sulfides+SPERRYLITE+SPR-1 (141 words)

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		The data given in the table allow to allocate the main stages of formation of PGE mineralization in chromitites of Syum-Keu and Outocumpue massifs and to carry out their comparison.
		First two stages - Crystallisation and Aftercrystallization thermal events - almost precisely coincide in chromitites of both massifs: in both massifs idiomorphic crystals of laurite, erlichmanite and sperrylite are present.
		Idiomorphic grains of laurite, erlichmanite and sperrylite are replaced by irarsite hollingwortite and Ni-sulphide.
	www.natires.com /rpgm_crt.htm (1150 words)

	Sperrylite Resources Limited (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		December 2000 Cluff entered into an agreement to acquire 20% of Sperrylite Resources (Pty) Limited with an option to acquire the remaining 80% within 6 months of completion.
		Sperrylite hold rights to 4 platinum group metal (PGM) exploration projects.
		BB-QTBM, LS-DD, Fonte Verde and Blue Sky North located in The Bushveld Complex, South Africa.The Bushveld Complex currently produces over 70% of the world's platinum and approximately 25% of palladium.
	www.sperrylite.com (69 words)

	Proceedings of the MSTU vol.3 No.2 2000
		All common minerals except sperrylite have a wide range of composition.
		The following conclusions may be drawn: a long history of PGM cristallization in different conditions; Pansky and Fedorova massives are supposed to have different magmatic sources; postore regime of massif cooling took place under chilling condition with fluid loss.
		Correspondingly to the frequency of occurence and exhalation sizes, kotulskite, merenskyite, moncheite, sperrylite, cooperite and electrum prevail among the noble metal minerals.
	www.mstu.edu.ru /publish/vestnik/v03_2_n07/eng_cont.html (2704 words)

	Sperrylite Mineral Data
		Comments: Brilliant, mirror-like modified octahedral crystals of sperrylite to 1.3 cm on chalcopyrite matrix..
		Comments: Small crystal of dull gray cabriite on a larger tin-white sperrylite crystal.
		Disseminated - Occurs in small, distinct particles dispersed in matrix.
	www.webmineral.com /data/Sperrylite.shtml (269 words)

	Cabriite from Noril'sk - a Palladium-Tin-Copper Mineral
		The cabriite is the pinkish "L-shaped" grain, occurring in a matrix of three tawny copper sulphides, and flanked by large angular crystals of white sperrylite, PtAs
		The cabriite is partially rimmed by creamy-yellow, highly reflective native silver, which also infills a brittle fracture in the sperrylite at the upper left of the view.
		The bluish-grey veinlet is the lead sulphide, galena.
	www.turnstone.ca /cabrit.htm (702 words)

	EUHEDRAL CRYSTALS OF FERROAN PLATINUM, COOPERITE AND PALLADIAN ANTIMONIDE FROM THE DARYA PLACER, ALDAN SHIELD, RUSSIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Another crystal, characterized by the formula (Pd,Cu)20(Sb,As,Sn)7, has micron-sized (2-5 µm) inclusions of sperrylite and deformation textures clearly visible in polished section.
		Previous studies of the Darya heavy mineral concentrate reveal the presence of low-Ir (Ir <0.5 wt.%) Pt-Fe alloy, crystals of sperrylite and cooperite, isomertieite, and very rare Ir-Os-Ru alloy.
		Euhedral crystals of ferroan platinum alloy (up to 1.5 cm large) were only known from the Kondyor deposit so far.
	gsa.confex.com /gsa/2003AM/finalprogram/abstract_64355.htm (521 words)

	Sperrylite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The word "sperrylite" uses 10 letters: E E I L P R R S T Y.
		Words within sperrylite not shown as it has more than seven letters.
		All words formed from sperrylite by changing one letter
	www.morewords.com /word/sperrylite (162 words)

	Growth Business: Cluff boosts platinum resource (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Chairman Algy Cluff claims the Blue Ridge results provide further justification of the company's decision to undertake a full feasibility study into a mine producing around 200,000 oz of platinum group metals, it expects to complete in six months.
		Since Blue Ridge has achieved the targets set when Cluff bought it for shares from the local Sperrylite group in 2000, 1.25 million new Cluff shares will be issued under the original Sperrylite deal to 'fl empowerment' group Rosario International, which agreed to buy the rights to them from the Sperrylite vendors for £9 million.
		Rosario is headed by Mzi Khumalo, a wealthy former co-prisoner with Nelson Mandela on Robben Island who has aroused controversy over stock lending in Harmony Gold Mining and other ploys.
	www.growthbusiness.co.uk /5256/cluff-boosts-platinum-resource.thtml (316 words)

	Panton Sample (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The sulphide minerals include pyrite, pentlandite, chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite, bornite, covellite, chalcocite, sperrylite, marcasite and vallerite.
		A significant proportion of the platinum occurs as sperrylite, a platinum arsenide, while palladium occurs as palladium-antimony, palladium-bismuth and palladium-tellurium compounds.
		Typical mineralisation within the various horizons is shown in the following table.
	www.oberon.com.au /australianmining/samples/sampledatasheet.shtml (1391 words)

	Ridge Mining (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		We made a further write down of US$0.6 million on our assets in Zimbabwe to reflect the difference between the official and unofficial exchange rate for the Zimbabwe Dollar.
		During 2001 the Company invested US$7.1 million on its platinum group metal assets including US$4.6 million on the acquisition of Sperrylite Resources (Pty) Limited.
		Our priorities over the next few months are to complete the feasibility study into Blue Ridge, to conclude negotiations with Anglo Platinum and carry out the next phase of exploration on Sheba’s Ridge as well as to rationalise our non-PGM assets.
	www.ridgemining.com /press/27.asp (1178 words)

	LookSmart - Directory - Guides to Sperrylite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Guides to Sperrylite - Browse resources regarding the chemical and physical attributes of this mineral.
		Sheds light on the history and discovery of sperrylite and provides a list of its mineral properties.
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	Define Sperrylite : powered by In Dictionary (InDicitonary.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
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		"Sperrylite" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
		Sperrylite *\Sper"rylite\**, n.[Named after F. Sperry, who discovered it.] (Min.) An arsenide of platinum occuring in grains and minute isometric crystals of tin-white color.
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