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Shandite

Year of discovery: 1950 (Nickel Reward mine, Australia), 1998 (Japan)

Locality list: 2 localities of shandite

• Ni₃Pb₂S₂
• [Ni²⁺₃][Pb²⁺₂][S₂]

• Class: Shandite group
• Class: Sulfide

• Ni => Rh: Rhodplumsite

• Color: Yellowish brown
• Luster: Metallic
• Diaphaneity: Opaque

• Habit: Tiny grains
• Aggregate: other sulfides in serpentinite.

• Cleavage: Perfect on {1011} (3 planes)
• Hardness: 4
• Density: 8.7

• System: Trigonal, Pseudocubic
• Group: (-3)m, R(-3)m
• Lattice: a=5.6, c=13.6

Etymology: Professor Samuel James Shand (1882-1957), Scottish petrologist