Nickel glance explained

Nickel glance is a trivial name given by collectors and mineral traders, as well as miners, geologists and other professions to at least two ore nickel minerals.^[1] It may refer to:

• Arsenic-nickel glance — Gersdorffite (formula: NiAsS), nickel arsenic sulfide mineral
• Antimony-nickel glance — Ullmannite (formula: NiSbS), nickel antimony sulfide mineral (cobaltite group)
• Arsenic-antimony-nickel glance (or Antimony-arsenic-nickel glance) — mixed mineral, antimony gersdorffite (with an admixture of antimony);
• Nickel-bismuth glance — Polydymite (bismuth-nickel pyrite),^[2] mixed bimetallic mineral (whose main deposit is in Westphalia)

See also

• Glance (disambiguation)
• Nickel (disambiguation)

Notes and References

1. Krivovichev V. G. Mineralogical glossary. Scientific editor A. G. Bulakh. — St.Petersburg: St.Petersburg Univ. Publ. House. 2009. — 556 p. — ISBN 978-5-288-04863-0
2. Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron: in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). — St. Petersburg, 1890-1907. volume I (1905): p. 428. From the article Bismuth-nickel pyrite.