Native aluminium

Aluminium
Tiny speck of native aluminium
General
Category	Native metal
Formula	Al
Crystal system	Cubic
Crystal class	Hexoctahedral (m3m) H-M symbol: (4/m 3 2/m)
Space group	Fm3m
Identification
Color	Grayish-white
Crystal habit	Granular to massive, platy, scaly
Tenacity	Malleable
Mohs scale hardness	2 - 3.5
Luster	Metallic
Diaphaneity	Opaque
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Native aluminium (IMA1980-085a) is a natural occurrence of aluminium metal. Its (co)-type localities are the Billeekh intrusion and the dike OB-255, Sakha Republic.

In a gabbro-dolerite of the Billeekh intrusion it occurs with copper, zinc, tin, lead, cadmium, iron, antimony and moissanite. In the occurrence in the Tolbachik volcano in Russia it occurs with magnetite, ilmenite, hematite, pyrite and native iron. In the Getang, Guizhou Province, China, it occurs with copper, sulfur and jarosite.⁴