maucherite
Sign in to saveMaucherite is a grey to reddish silver white nickel arsenide mineral. It crystallizes in the tetragonal crystal system. It occurs in hydrothermal veins alongside other nickel arsenide and sulfide minerals. It is metallic and opaque with a hardness of 5 and a specific gravity of 7.83. It is also known as placodine and Temiskamite. The unit cell is of symmetry group P41212 or P43212.
Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Maucherite
- Mineral.image
- Cubanite-Maucherite-Valleriite-199921.jpg
- Mineral.imagesize
- 260px
- Mineral.caption
- Cubanite-maucherite-valleriite
- Mineral.category
- Arsenide mineral
- Mineral.formula
- Ni11As8
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Muc
- Mineral.strunz
- 2.AB.15
- Mineral.system
- Tetragonal
- Mineral.class
- Trapezohedral (422) (same H-M symbol)
- Mineral.symmetry
- P41212, P43212
- Mineral.color
- grey to reddish silver white
- Mineral.mohs
- 4.5–5.5
- Mineral.streak
- grayish black
- Mineral.gravity
- 6.9–7.3
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- Image
- Maucherite - Eisleben, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.jpg
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- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 2.AB.15
- Commons category
- Maucherite
- chemical formula
- Ni₁₁As₈
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 2.AB.15
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Muc
- Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
- II/A’.03
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Maucherite is a grey to reddish silver white nickel arsenide mineral. It crystallizes in the tetragonal crystal system. It occurs in hydrothermal veins alongside other nickel arsenide and sulfide minerals. It is metallic and opaque with a hardness of 5 and a specific gravity of 7.83. It is also known as placodine and Temiskamite. The unit cell is of symmetry group P41212 or P43212.
It has the chemical formula: Ni11As8 and commonly contains copper, iron, cobalt, antimony, and sulfur as impurities.