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Animikite

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Description
Locality: 
Silver Islet Mine, Silver Islet, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.3 × 3.3 × 0.7 cm
Description

This specimen is a slab of brown sphalerite and white dolomite with dendrites made up of shiny golden nickeline and bluish/silvery galena around grains of brown animikite.

The piece is of historic interest as the animikite was first reported from the Silver Islet Mine in the late 1890's as a silver antimonide. It has since been determined to be a mixture of galena, nickeline, and silver.

 

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Animikite

Mixture Of: 

Galena

Formula: 
PbS
Strunz: 
2.CD.10
Hardness: 
2.5

Nickeline

Formula: 
NiAs
Strunz: 
2.CC.05
Hardness: 
5.0 - 5.5

Silver

Formula: 
Ag
Strunz: 
1.AA.05
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0

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