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|   |   | Name: Nickeline RRUFF ID: R060906 Ideal Chemistry: NiAs Locality: Moose Horn mine, Timiskaming district, Ontario, Canada Source: Royal Ontario Museum M8518 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Massive metallic lustered tarnished to dull copper color Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis | 
| Mineral Group: [ Nickeline (5) ] | ||
| Quick search: [ All Nickeline samples (2) ] | ||
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| RRUFF ID: | R060906.1 | |||||||
| Sample Description: | Powder | |||||||
| Cell Refinement Output: | a: 3.62673(4)Å    b: 3.62673(4)Å    c: 5.03914(6)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 120° Volume: 57.401(1)Å3 Crystal System: hexagonal | |||||||
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| REFERENCES for Nickeline | |
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| American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record] | |
| Anthony J W, Bideaux R A, Bladh K W, and Nichols M C (1990) Handbook of Mineralogy, Mineral Data Publishing, Tucson Arizona, USA, by permission of the Mineralogical Society of America. [view file] | |
| Beudant F S (1832) Nickeline, nickel arsenical, in Traité Élémentaire de Minéralogie, 2nd Edition Paris 586-589 [view file] | |
| International Mineralogical Association (1967) Commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Magazine, 36, 131-136 [view file] | |
| Petruk W, Harris D C, Stewart J M (1971) Characteristics of the arsenides, sulpharsenides, and antimonides, The Canadian Mineralogist, 11, 150-186 [view file] | |
| International Mineralogical Association (1980) International Mineralogical Association: Commission on new minerals and mineral names, Mineralogical Magazine, 43, 1053-1055 [view file] | |
| Thompson J G, Rae A D, Withers R L, Welberry T R, Willis A C (1988) The crystal structure of nickel arsenide, Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics, 21, 4007-4015 [link] | |
| Ondru P, Veselovský F, Gabaová A, Hlouek J, rein V, Vavrín I, Skála R, Sejkora J, Drábek M (2003) Primary minerals of the Jáchymov ore district, Journal of the Czech Geological Society, 48, 19-147 [view file] | |
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