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Mindat Short Description

See also awaruite, kamacite and taenite. Compare 'UM1981-07-E:FeIrNiOsRu'.

NB: Quite likely many of the listed localities for "native" nickel in reality just refer to nickel-bearing ores and not the native element. Caveat emptor!

Geoscience Ontology Status Notes

First confirmed natural occurence of native nickel: Ramdohr P (1967) The wide-spread paragenesis of ore minerals originating during serpentinization (with some data on new and insufficiently described minerals), Geologiya Rudnykh Mestorozhdenii 2, 32-43 Fleischer M (1968) New mineral names, American Mineralogist 53, 348-351

IMA Formula (from Mindat)

Ni

RRUFF Formula (from Geoscience Ontology)

Ni

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