Hellyerite
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Hellyerite
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- Availability
- Sold
- Size
- 7 x 5 x 2.5 cm - Sm Cabinet
- Formula
- NiCO3·6H2O (RRUFF)
- Locality
- Lord Brassey mine, Heazlewood dist., Tasmania, Australia
- Tagged
- carbonate , nickel
Light pastel bluish green platy crystals to 3mm with excellent coverage. The Hellyerite is a breakdown product of Heazlewoodite, which occurs as 2-4mm metalic grains in the serpentenized matrix. The Zaratite is the emerald green crust. Excellent specimen originally out of the Al Kidwell collection. There are other unidentified minerals on this specimen.
Type Locality
Hellyerite
- Formula
- NiCO3·6H2O
- Crystal System
- Monoclinic
- Crystal Habit
- Encrustations
- Cleavage
- Perfect, Very Good, Very Good
- Luster
- Vitreous (Glassy)
- Color
- light blue
- Streak
- white
- Class
- Monoclinic - Prismatic
- Hardness
- 2.5
Data courtesy of Webmineral.
- Collection
- McConlogue Collection
- Special Info
- Type Locality
- Mineralpedia
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- On Dakota Matrix
- Previously Sold Hellyerite
- On Dakota Matrix
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