{{Short description|Telluride mineral}} {{Infobox mineral | name = Temagamite | category = Telluride mineral | boxwidth = | boxbgcolor = | image = Temagamite.jpg | imagesize = | caption = | formula = Pd<sub>3</sub>HgTe<sub>3</sub> | IMAsymbol = Tem<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Warr|first=L.N.|date=2021|title=IMA–CNMNC approved mineral symbols|journal=Mineralogical Magazine|volume=85|issue=3|pages=291–320|doi=10.1180/mgm.2021.43|bibcode=2021MinM...85..291W|s2cid=235729616|doi-access=free}}</ref> | molweight = | strunz = 2.BC.50 | color = Bright white to grey | habit = microscopic included grains | system = Orthorhombic <br/>Unknown space group | twinning = | cleavage = | fracture = | tenacity = | mohs = 2.5 | luster = Metallic | streak = | polish = | refractive = | opticalprop = | birefringence = | dispersion = | pleochroism = Weak | fluorescence= | absorption = | gravity = 9.5 | density = | melt = | fusibility = | diagnostic = | solubility = | diaphaneity = Opaque | other = | references = <ref>http://webmineral.com/data/Temagamite.shtml Webmineral data</ref><ref name=Handbook>http://rruff.geo.arizona.edu/doclib/hom/temagamite.pdf Mineral Handbook</ref><ref name=Mindat>http://www.mindat.org/min-3908.html Temagamite: Temagamite mineral information and data Retrieved on 2007-08-30</ref> }} '''Temagamite''' is a bright white palladium mercury telluride mineral with a hardness of {{frac|2|1|2}} on the Mohs scale. Its chemical formula is Pd<sub>3</sub>HgTe<sub>3</sub>. It was discovered at the Temagami Mine on Temagami Island, Lake Temagami in 1973,<ref name=Mindat/> and it represents a rare mineral in the Temagami Greenstone Belt.
It occurs as microscopic inclusions within massive chalcopyrite at Temagami in association with other rare tellurides: merenskyite, stützite, hessite and an unnamed Pd-Hg-Ag telluride.<ref>http://rruff.geo.arizona.edu/doclib/cm/vol12/CM12_193.pdf Canadian Mineralogist, Vol. ll pp. 193-198 (1973)</ref> In addition to the discovery locality, it has been reported from the Stillwater igneous complex in Montana and the New Rambler copper–nickel mine in the Medicine Bow Mountains of Wyoming.<ref name=Handbook/>
==See also== *List of minerals
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Category:Telluride minerals Category:Palladium minerals Category:Mercury minerals Category:Geology of Temagami Category:Orthorhombic minerals Category:Minerals described in 1973
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