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Description: | This mineral is also known as pyrrhotite and magnetic pyrites. It is an ore of nickel, although it is unusual for it to contain more than 5% of this element. Pyrrhotine occurs in reasonable quantities in the Great Sulphur Vein in the Alston Moor area of Cumbria. Small quantities are found at Lady?s Rake Mine in Upper Teesdale. The most important occurrence of this mineral is at Sudbury, Canada, which is the largest known source of nickel. | 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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