pentlandite

IPA: pˈɛntɫʌndaɪt

(mineralogy) A mixed iron and nickel sulfide mineral, with the chemical formula (Fe,Ni)₉S₈; the major ore of nickel.

Examples of "pentlandite" in Sentences

(pyrrhotite-pentlandite-chalcopyrite) that had graded up to 0. 67% Ni and 0. 74% Cu.
Other nickel-bearing minerals, including millerite, heazlwoodite and pentlandite were also noted in composite grains.
The hole yielded disseminated and net-textured pyrrhotite, pentlandite and chalcopyrite intermittently within pyroxenite, over a core length of 28.8 metres.
Exploration at the Triangle Lake showing in the 1950s and 1960s exposed zones of massive to semi-massive magnetite and pyrite-pyrrhotite-chalcopyrite-pentlandite.
The unit contains patchy recrystallised chalcopyrite-pyrite - (pyrrhotite) - pentlandite, occasionally as stringers, with up to 5% combined sulphides over several centimetres.
Mineralization at Mathilda consists of disseminated and massive vein pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite, pyrite, pentlandite and trace molybdenite in sulphides hosted in a pyroxenite dyke.
Other conductors are located upstream of a pyroxenite-gabbro boulders weakly mineralized (pyrrhotite-pentlandite-chalcopyrite) that returned values of up to 0. 39% Ni and 0. 29% Cu.
(particularly pentlandite, but also millerite, niccolite, and others), which are found at Sudbury intergrown with the iron and copper sulphides, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite; and the hydrated nickel-magnesium silicates (garnierite and genthite), which are products of weathering.