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Nickel pyrite
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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- Part of Speech: noun
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- Industry/Domain: Mining
- Category: General mining; Mineral mining
- Government Agency: USBM
- Product: Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, & Related Terms - 2nd Edition
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