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Description: | Niccolite, as its name suggests, is an ore of nickel. This specimen is from Lady's Rake Mine in Teesdale, Durham, where it has been found in small quantities. Niccolite has a distinctive copper red colour, and occurs in this example with calcite (white) and magnetite (black). Important deposits of this mineral occur at Cobalt, Ontario, in Canada, and Cornwall and Germany. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | rocks and minerals natural world | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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