MIIiLEBITE. 163 Brazils ; in crystals in the meteorites which fell at Juvenas in France, Klein Wenden, Chateau Renurd and Richmond in "Virginia, in the meteoric iron of Elbogen, Bohumilitz and Scriba. 53. MILLERITE.—Native nickel; Phillips. Nickel natif; Hauy. Ilaarkies ; Mohs. Nickelkies; Hausmann. Millerit; Haidinger. Rhombohedral. ioo,m = 20° so'. a oil, b 211, k 515, t 544, r ioo cleavage, r, 122 cleavage, e oil cleavage, e 411 cleavage. t" trimcates the edge e"b". TIG. 161. kb 19° 10' tb 138° 47' ba' 30 0 rb" 79 45 bh" 60 0 eV 84 39 ad 00 0 rd 72 4 rb 69 10 // ae 80 41 be, 79 14 rr 35 62 eh 100 40 ee 18 38 br, 110 60 The alternate faces b arc frequently very narrow. Cleavage. r i r n e , e„ all very perfect. Opaque. Lustre metallic. Brass- yellow, inclining to bronze-yellow. Streak bright. 11 = 3'5. 0 = 5-20. ..5-30. _ In the open tube yields sulphurous acid. Before the blow pipe melts readily into a black magnetic globule. Imparts to borax the colour of nickel. With nitromuriatic acid yields a green solution. NiS, nickel 64-86, sulphur 35 - l4. Analyses of millerite from Camsdorf a by Rammelsberg, “ % Arfvedson, c from the Friedrichszeche near Oberlahr, by Schnabel:— Nickel . . Iron . . . Copper . . Sulphur . . In very delicate capillary and acicular attached crystals. Is found at Johaniigcorgenstadt in Saxony, Joachimstal and If ib. ram iii Bohemia, Camsdorf in Thuringia, Rieehelsdorf in lessia, in the Westerwald, Cornwall, Merthyr Tydvil in Gla morganshire in nodules of chalybite. a b C 01'34 64'35 64-80 173 — ■— 1-14 — — 35‘79 34-26 3o-03