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Posted by Don Saathoff  
Tellurium
July 26, 2009 12:37AM
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Hello all.....going through an old flat of Hilltop Mine altaite rough I came across what I believe to be tellurium.....which NON-DESTRUCTIVE, that is, instrumental, technique would be surest & least expensive to confirm/deny tellurium?

Would any of you instrumentalists out there care to take it on....and for what fee?

Don S.
avatar Re: Tellurium
July 26, 2009 02:14AM
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I can SEM it- can do for a trade
Re: Tellurium
August 07, 2009 11:54AM
Hi. How big is it? Can u try XRF if the piece is big enough.
Re: Tellurium
August 07, 2009 06:01PM
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Hello Uthaman.....thanks for your response.....sent grains last week with no response yet (still a bit soon!!).

Don S.
Re: Tellurium
August 10, 2009 07:16AM
Don,

I can do it at short notice by microprobe. Need only tiny samople.

Result definitive and you get documentation vai email.

Google me.

John Attard
Re: Tellurium
August 10, 2009 05:27PM
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Thanks John!!!.....not much material left....as I mentioned earlier I've already sent two samples out and I doubt if they've even had a chance to open the pcks yet.....definately will google you next time!

Don S.
Re: Tellurium
August 23, 2009 07:17PM
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Mystery solved....altaite, not tellurium......thanks to Chris & Frank.....

Don S
Re: Tellurium
September 28, 2009 10:40PM
Last summer a college geology dept. had a giveaway (they had to move to another building as it was to be renovated), and so I and a friend salvaged some stuff. One specimen that intrigued me, for its label, was one that said "Pellurium, Transylvania" which obviously was Tellurium from Transylvania, and that the grad student (or whomever) decades ago apparently didn't know his elements and so transcribed a handwritten T as a P. I don't actually know if it is Tellurium but I know it isn't Pellurium!
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