Tellurium

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.

I can SEM it- can do for a trade

Hi. How big is it? Can u try XRF if the piece is big enough.

Hello Uthaman.....thanks for your response.....sent grains last week with no response yet (still a bit soon!!).

Don S.

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

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.

Mystery solved....altaite, not tellurium......thanks to Chris & Frank.....

Don S

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!