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    Pentlandite is an iron–nickel sulfide with the chemical formula (Fe,Ni)9S8. Pentlandite has a narrow variation range in nickel to iron ratios (Ni:Fe)...
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    Pyrrhotite is associated and mined with other sulfide minerals like pentlandite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, and magnetite, and has been found globally. Pyrrhotite...
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    radiating masses and furry aggregates. It can be distinguished from pentlandite by crystal habit, its duller colour, and general lack of association...
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    and other metals. This magma formed into pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite and pentlandite rocks, as well as cubanite and magnetite. In 1856 while surveying a baseline...
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    be formed by replacement of nickel-copper bearing sulfides (replacing pentlandite, and in association with copper arsenic sulfides), or via metasomatism...
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    America. Small but commercially important quantities are also found in pentlandite extracted from Sudbury, Ontario, and in pyroxenite deposits in South...
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  • Painite Palygorskite Papagoite Pargasite Parisite Pectolite Larimar Pentlandite Peridot Periclase Perthite Petalite (castorite) Pezzottaite Phenakite...
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    Sphalerite ZnS Chalcopyrite CuFeS2 Pyrrhotite Fe 1–xS Millerite NiS Pentlandite (Fe,Ni)9S8 Covellite CuS Cinnabar HgS Realgar AsS Orpiment As2S3 Stibnite...
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    for the majority of palladium present in the pentlandite, as the present concentrations of pentlandite cannot solely be created by sulfide fractionation...
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  • (mercury sulfide), galena (lead sulfide), molybdenite (molybdenum sulfide), pentlandite (nickel sulfide), realgar (arsenic sulfide), and stibnite (antimony sulfide)...
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    Many igneous rocks also contain the sulfide minerals pyrrhotite and pentlandite. During weathering, iron tends to leach from sulfide deposits as the...
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    mineral millerite. From the economic perspective, Ni9S8, the mineral pentlandite, is the chief source of mined nickel. Other minerals include heazlewoodite...
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    oxides, economically more important nickel ores are sulfides, especially pentlandite. Major production sites include the Sudbury region, Canada (which is...
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  • sulfide mineral associated with the weathering and oxidation of primary pentlandite nickel sulfide ore minerals. Violarite crystallises in the isometric...
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    types of ores, sulfides and oxides. The most important sulfide ore is pentlandite (Ni9S8) although many other nickel sulfides are known. Furthermore, nickel...
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  • sulphide minerals to release the associated metal, for example, leaching of pentlandite to release nickel, or the leaching of chalcocite, covellite or chalcopyrite...
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    Reef contains an average of 10 ppm platinum group metals in pyrrhotite, pentlandite, and pyrite as well as in rare platinum group minerals and alloys. The...
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    The standard magmatic sulfide assemblage is composed of Pyrrhotite, Pentlandite, and Chalcopyrite, with lesser to trace amounts of Pyrite, Cubanite and...
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  • Pearceite Pecoraite Pectolite Penfieldite Penikisite Penroseite Pentagonite Pentlandite Perhamite Periclase Perite Perovskite Petalite Petrovite Petzite Pezzottaite...
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    Ni Alloys, food and pharmaceutical applications, corrosion resistance Pentlandite (Fe,Ni)9S8 with other sulphide minerals; garnierite (NiMg) with chromite...
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  • America. Small but commercially important quantities are also found in pentlandite extracted from Sudbury, Ontario, and in pyroxenite deposits in South...
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  • synergies would have been realized in the Sudbury operations in Project Pentlandite, with both companies performing the same kind of extraction and smelting...
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    very rare metal in Earth's crust. It is often found in minerals such as pentlandite and pyroxinite. It can be commercially obtained as a waste product from...
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    with native gold and magnetite in placers; with copper, heazlewoodite, pentlandite, violarite, chromite, and millerite in peridotites; with kamacite, allabogdanite...
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    that the crater may in fact have been created by a comet. Sudbury's pentlandite, pyrite and pyrrhotite ores contain profitable amounts of many elements—primarily...
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    alteration of the primary nickel and iron bearing minerals, chromite, pentlandite, pyrrhotite, and millerite, during the serpentinization of ultramafic...
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  • Prd Pentahydroborite Phb Pilsenite Pse Powellite Pwl Paradocrasite Pdc Pentlandite Pn Pinakiolite Pki Poyarkovite Poy Parádsasvárite Psv Penzhinite Pzh...
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    Hematite: Fe2O3 Ilmenite: FeTiO3 Magnetite: Fe3O4 Molybdenite: MoS2 Pentlandite: (Fe,Ni)9S8 Pyrite: FeS2 Scheelite: CaWO4 Sphalerite: ZnS Uraninite:...
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    in high temperature hydrothermal mineral deposits with pyrrhotite and pentlandite as intergrowths with chalcopyrite. It results from exsolution from chalcopyrite...
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    with willyamite ((Co,Ni)SbS). It occurs with nickeline, gersdorffite, pentlandite, chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite, galena, tetrahedrite and dyscrasite in hydrothermal...
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