Vaesite (
Ni S2) is a
mineral
In geology and mineralogy, a mineral or mineral species is, broadly speaking, a solid chemical compound with a fairly well-defined chemical composition and a specific crystal structure that occurs naturally in pure form.John P. Rafferty, ed. ( ...
found together with
cattierite in the
Democratic Republic of Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially "La RDC" ), informally Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DRC, the DROC, or the Congo, and formerly and also colloquially Zaire, is a country in ...
. It is named after
Johannes F. Vaes, a Belgian mineralologist.
It is part of the
pyrite group
The pyrite group of minerals is a set of cubic crystal system minerals with diploidal structure. Each metallic element is bonded to six "dumbbell" pairs of non-metallic elements and each "dumbbell" pair is bonded to six metal atoms.
The group is n ...
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References
Webmineral.com - VaesiteHandbook of Mineralogy - Vaesite
Nickel minerals
Pyrite group
Cubic minerals
Minerals in space group 205
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