Sperrylite. Rocks & Minerals | January 1, 2001| | COPYRIGHT 2001 Heldref Publications. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

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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 ...

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