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Melonite

melonite

NiTe2

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Overview

Melonite is a telluride of nickel; it is a metallic mineral. Its chemical formula is NiTe2. It is opaque and white to reddish-white in color, oxidizing in air to a brown tarnish. It was first described from the Melones and Stanislaus mine in Calaveras County, California in 1866, by Frederick Augustus Genth. Melonite occurs as trigonal crystals, which cleave in a (0001) direction. It has a specific gravity of 7.72 and a hardness of 1–1.5 (very soft).

Scientific references

  1. Melonite — Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3854304 Link
  2. Melonite — Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melonite Link