Where it forms, where it's found
- Type locality
- Zhengziyanwo ore block
- Yangliuping Cu-Ni-PGE deposit
- Yangliuping Cu-Ni-PGE ore field
- Danba Co.
- Garzê Autonomous Prefecture (Ganzi Autonomous Prefecture)
- Sichuan
- China
30.6608°, 101.8617°
17recorded occurrences
Physical
- Hardness
- 1Talc
- 2Gypsum
- 3Calcite
- 4Fluorite
- 5Apatite
- 6Orthoclase
- 7Quartz
- 8Topaz
- 9Corundum
- 10Diamond
- Transparency
- Opaque
- Colour
- Brownish steel-gray · tarnishes yellow-brown
Optical
- Optical type
- Isotropic
PPL intrinsic colour; no change on stage rotation
XPL extinct at every orientation
Crystallography
- Cell parameters
- a = 6.57 Å
Crystal structure
Chemical composition
- Impurities
- Pt
- Ag
- Ni
Synonyms
- Testibiopalladiet
- Testibiopalladita
In other languages
- German
- Testibiopalladit
- Italian
- Testibiopalladite
Classification
Strunz
10th ed.2.EB.25
- 2Sulfides and SulfosaltsClass
- 2.EMetal Sulfides, M: S <= 1:2Division
- 2.EBM:S = 1:2, with Fe, Co, Ni, PGE, etc.Group
- 2.EB.25TestibiopalladiteSpecies
Dana
8th ed.02.12.03.13
- 02SulfidesClass
- 02.12AmBnXp, with (m+n):p = 1:2Type
- 02.12.03Cobaltite Group (Cubic or pseudocubic crystals)Group
- 02.12.03.13TestibiopalladiteSpecies
CIM
—3.12.35
- 3Sulphides, Selenides, Tellurides, Arsenides and Bismuthides (except the arsenides, antimonides and bismuthides of Cu, Ag and Au, which are included in Section 1)Class
- 3.12Sulphides etc. of the platinum metalsGroup
- 3.12.35TestibiopalladiteSpecies
Group, growth & confusion
Literature, links & citation
Citations
- —CIM Special Volume 23, 143-144, 156.
- 1974Platinum metal mineral research group, Kweiyang Institute of Geochemistry (1974): Tellurostibnide of palladium and nickel and other new minerals and varieties of platinum metals. Geochimica 1974(3), 169-181 (in Chinese with English abstract). - American Mineralogist (1976), 61, 182 (abstract); American Mineralogist (1992), 77, 675 (abstract).
- 1991Kim, W.-S. and Chao, G.Y. (1991) Phase relations in the system Pd-Sb-Te. Can. Mineral., 29, 401–409.
- 2005(2005) Testibiopalladite. Handbook of Mineralogy. Mineralogical Society of America
- 2024Cabri, Louis J.; Liang, Qing-Lin (2024) Testibiopalladite, PdSbTe: A Valid Mineral and Sb-Analogue of Michenerite. The Canadian Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology, 62 (2). 307-316 doi:10.3749/2300049DOI: 10.3749/2300049
Cite this entry
@misc{mineral2026,
author = {Mineral Index editorial board},
title = {Testibiopalladite — Mineral Index},
year = {2026},
url = {https://mineralindex.org/minerals/testibiopalladite-3919},
note = {Accessed 2026-05-11}
}