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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