University of Hamburg Mineralogical Museum of the University of Hamburg
Mineral name
 
Tatyanaite
Diameter of the ore section: 26 mm
Hölzel-No.
 
1.AH.320
Type of specimen
 
HT
IMA-No. / Accepted
 
95-049 / 1996
Chemical formula
 
(Pt,Pd,Cu)9Cu3Sn4
Type locality
 
Russia, Siberia, Noril'sk-Complex, Oktyabr'sk Mine
Associated minerals
 
Chalcopyrite, pentlandite, pyrrhotite, magnetite, galena, sperrylite, Au-Ag-alloys, paolovite, froodite, members of the atokite-rustenburgite solid solution, maslovite, calcite and ferropyrosmalite
Collection
 
Mineralogisches Museum - Universität Hamburg
Contact person
 
Prof. Dr. Jochen Schlüter
Catalogue−No. / Site
 
MMHH Ta08-5 / Tresor des Museums
Nature of 
type specimen

 
Polished ore section
References

Tatyanaite, a new platinum-group mineral, the Pt analogue of taimyrite, from the Noril'sk complex (northern Siberia, Russia).
Barkov, A.Y., Martin, R.F., Poirier, G., Tarkian, M., Pakhomovskii, Y.A., Men'shikov, Y.P. (2000)
Europ. Journal of Mineralogy, 12, 391-396
Notes / Further information

Tatyanaite occurrs in grains up to 0.2 mm in massive sulfides of the Oktyabr'sk mine.
Last update 27. April 2022 by A. Matthies Imprint (german)