Tags: Chemical Substance, Mineral.
Temagamite is a bright white palladium mercury telluride mineral with a hardness of 2½ on the Mohs scale. Its chemical formula is Pd3HgTe3. It was discovered at the Temagami Mine on Temagami Island Lake Temagami in 1973 and it represents a rare mineral in the Temagami greenstone belt.It occurs as microscopic inclusions within massive chalcopyrite at Temagami in association with other rare tellurides: merenskyite stützite hessite and an unnamed Pd-Hg-Ag telluride.