Millerite

Millerite

A brass-yellow to bronze-yellow rhombohedral mineral: NiS. It usually has traces of cobalt, copper, and iron, and is often tarnished. Millerite generally occurs in fine hairlike or capillary crystals of extreme delicacy, chiefly as nodules in clay ironstone.

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Category: General mining; Mineral mining
Government Agency: USBM
Product: Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, & Related Terms - 2nd Edition
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