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Name: Nickelskutterudite
Nskt
IMA Chemistry: (Ni,Co,Fe)As3
Chemistry Elements: The mineral Nickelskutterudite contains elements:
Nickel (Ni)
Cobalt (Co)
Iron (Fe)
Arsenic (As)
Country of Type Locality: Germany
Year First Published: 1893
IMA Status: Approved,Renamed
Status Notes: Waller E, Moses A J (1893) A probably new nickel arsenide (preliminary notice), The School of Mines Quarterly 14, 49-51 Name changed from nickel-skutterudite: Burke E A J (2008) Tidying up mineral names: an IMA-CNMNC scheme for suffixes, hyphens and diacritical marks, The Mineralogical Record 39, 131-135 Chemical formula revised from NiAs_3-x_ to (Ni,Co,Fe)As_3_: Schumer B N, Andrade M B, Evans S H, Downs R T (2017) A new formula and crystal structure for nickelskutterudite, (Ni,Co,Fe)As_3_, and occupancy of the icosahedral cation site in the skutterudite group. American Mineralogist 102, 205-209
Structural Group Name: Perovskite, Skutterudite
Fleischer's Group Name: skutterudite
Crystal Systems: cubic
Oldest Known Age: 3640 Million Years Ago
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