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Altaite also known as lead telluride is a yellowish white mineral with an isometric crystal structure. Altaite is in the galena group of minerals as it shares many of properties of galena but altaite has an unusually high density for any mineral. Altaite and other rare tellurides are classified in the sulfide mineral class (Dana classification).
Altaite was discovered in 1845 in the Altai Mountains. Besides these mountains altaite can also be found in Zyrianovsk in Kazakhstan, Ritchie Creek Deposit Price County in Wisconsin, Koch-Bulak Gold deposit in Kazakhstan, Moctezuma in Mexico, Coquimbo in Chile and many more other places.
See also
List of minerals
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