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n. - A mineral (iron and nickel sulphide) that is the chief ore of nickel.

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  • 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...
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