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Formula: (Ni,Fe)9S8
Sulphide
Crystal System: Orthorhombic
Specific gravity: 5.273 calculated
Hardness: 4 to 5
Streak: Grey
Colour: Bronze-yellow
Common impurities: Co
Environments
Plutonic igneous environments
Hydrothermal environments
Godlevskite occurs in hydrothermal veins and in peridotite
with other nickel sulphides. Associated minerals include
millerite, heazlewoodite,
pentlandite, pyrrhotite,
pyrite, bornite,
chalcopyrite and magnetite
(HOM).
Localities
At the Texmont Mine, Bartlett Township and Geikie Township, Timmins area, Cochrane District, Ontario, Canada,
godlevskite is associated with
pentlandite-millerite and
heazlewoodite
(CM 11.879-885).
There are three co-type localities:
The Zapolyarnyi Mine, Noril'sk-1 Cu-Ni deposit, Noril'sk Cu-Ni deposit, Noril'sk, Putoran Plateau, Taimyr Peninsula,
Taymyrskiy Autonomous Okrug, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia
The Mayak Mine, Talnakh Cu-Ni Deposit, Noril'sk, Putoran Plateau, Taimyr Peninsula, Taymyrskiy Autonomous Okrug,
Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia
Mine No. 8, Talnakh Cu-Ni Deposit, Noril'sk, Putoran Plateau, Taimyr Peninsula, Taymyrskiy Autonomous Okrug,
Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia
At these localities godlevskite occurs as aggregates and single grains up to 1 mm in size in
bornite and
bornite-chalcopyrite veins. It
is replaced in part by bornite and by
millerite and has been observed replacing
pentlandite
(AM 55.317-318).
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