Pentlandite - Wikipedia
Pentlandite is the most common terrestrial nickel sulfide. It typically forms during cooling of a sulfide melt. These sulfide melts, in turn, are typically formed during the evolution of a silicate melt.
Pentlandite Mineral Data
Environment: Common as the sulfide phase in basic and ultra-basic intrusive igneous rocks. IMA Status: Valid Species (Pre-IMA) 1856. Locality: Espedalen, near Lillihammer, Norway. Link to MinDat.org Location Data. Name Origin: Named after the Irish natural historian, J. …
Pentlandite | Nickel-Iron, Sulfide Ore, Ore Deposit | Britannica
pentlandite, a nickel and iron sulfide mineral, the chief source of nickel. It is nearly always found with pyrrhotite and similar minerals in silica-poor rocks such as those at Bushveld, S.Af.; Bodø, Nor.; and Sudbury, Ont., Can. It has also been found in meteorites.
Pentlandite: The mineral pentlandite information and pictures
Pentlandite is an important mineral due to its nickel content, but it rarely forms in interesting specimens for collectors. It usually occurs together with Pyrrhotite, and may even be intergrown together with it. Pentlandite is both an individual mineral, and the name of a mineral group.
Pentlandite Supergroup: Mineral information, data and localities.
Pentlandite Supergroup mineral data, information about Pentlandite Supergroup, its properties and worldwide locations.
Mindat.org - Mines, Minerals and More
Mindat.org - Mines, Minerals and More
Pentlandite (Fe, Ni)9S8. Crystal Data: Cubic. Point Group: 4/m 3 2/m. Massive, commonly in granular aggregates; rarely in crystals, to 10 cm, embedded in other sulfides. Physical Properties: Cleavage: Parting on {111}. Fracture: Conchoidal. Tenacity: Brittle. Hardness = 3.5–4 VHN = 268–285 (100 g load). D(meas.) = 4.6–5.0 D(calc.) = 4.956.