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Heazlewoodite

Sulfide mineral

Heazlewoodite, Ni3S2, is a rare sulfur sulfide mineral dunite. It occurs as disseminations and masses of opaque, metallic light bronze to brassy yellow grains which crystallize in the trigonal crystal system. It has a hardness of 4, a specific gravity of 5.82. Heazlewoodite was first described in 1896 from Heazlewood, Tasmania

Identification

Color of mineral

Bronze

Mohs scale ( mineral hardness )

4

Luster ( interacts light )

Metallic

Crystal ( diaphaneity )

Trigonal