Nickel-iron

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Canyon Diablo meteorite, Meteor Crater and vicinity, Winslow, Coconino Co., Arizona, USA
© Peter Kohorst

Name:	Taken from the composition

Dana 7 gave this species name to the series of face centred cubic nickel iron alloys with an iron content ranging from 0 to 75%. It encompassed the high nickel terrestrials: Awaruite, Josephinite, Souesite, and Bobrovkite; as well as the low nickel meteorites: Edmonsonite, Taenite, and the mixture Plessite. Contemporary usage breaks the series into low nickel Taenite, high nickel Awaruite, and nearly pure Nickel.

Classification of Nickel-iron
Explanation of status:	Late 20th century mineralogy suggests more than one species per series and since the low nickel members were extraterrestial and high nickel members were terrestrial, the split seemed natural and the species name for the series abandoned. Now the series has three valid species: Taenite, Awaruite, and Nickel
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Other Information
Health Warning:	No information on health risks for this material has been entered into the database. You should always treat mineral specimens with care.
References for Nickel-iron
Reference List: - +	Palache, Charles, Harry Berman & Clifford Frondel (1944), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana Yale University 1837-1892, Volume I: Elements, Sulfides, Sulfosalts, Oxides. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York. 7th edition, revised and enlarged, 834pp.: 117-118.
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Localities for Nickel-iron
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Azerbaijan
Naxçıvan (Naxcivan; Nakhichevan) District Shusha Indarch meteorite (Elizabethpol; Gindorcha; Glindorcha; Indarh; Indarkh; Schuscha; Suscha [NHM cat.])	http://rruff.geo.arizona.edu/doclib/hom/roedderite.pdf.; Pekov, I. (1998) Minerals First discovered on the territory of the former Soviet Union 369p. Ocean Pictures, Moscow

Oman
Dhofar (Al Janubiyah) Province Dhofar 301-308 Lunar meteorites

Spain
Andalusia Granada Colomera meteorite	www.meteoriticalsociety.org/bulletin/mb78.html

Switzerland
Fribourg (Freiburg) Ulmiz Ulmiz meteorite	Stalder, H. A., Wagner, A., Graeser, S. and Stuker, P. (1998): "Mineralienlexikon der Schweiz", Verlag Wepf & Co. (Basel), p. 500
Grischun (Grisons; Graubünden) Plessur Valley Langwies Langwies meteorite	Stalder, H. A., Wagner, A., Graeser, S. and Stuker, P. (1998): "Mineralienlexikon der Schweiz", Verlag Wepf & Co. (Basel), p. 500

Ukraine
Transcarpathian Oblast' (Zakarpats'ka Oblast'; Zakarpattia) Rakhivs’kiy rayon Kvasy Borkut meteorite	Keidel, W. (1965): Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 11, 487-506

USA
Arizona Coconino Co. Flagstaff Elden Mountain area Elden meteorite (Mount Elden meteorite)	Galbraith, F.W. (1947), Minerals of AZ, AZ Bur. Mines Bull. 153: 10.
Winslow Meteor Crater (Barringer Crater)	Rob Lavinsky
California Del Norte Co. Smith River South Fork Smith River	Palache, Charles, Harry Berman & Clifford Frondel (1944), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana Yale University 1837-1892, Volume I: Elements, Sulfides, Sulfosalts, Oxides. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York. 7th edition, revised and enlarged, 834pp.: 118.
Kern Co. San Emigdio Mts San Emigdio meteorite	Merrill, George Perkins (1888), On a new meteorite from the San Emigdio Range, San Bernardino County, California: American Journal of Science, 3rd. series: 35: 490-491
San Bernardino Co. Valley Wells Valley Wells meteorite	Reeds, Chester Albert (1937), Catalog of meteorites: American Museum of Natural History Bulletin 73, Art. 6: 633-634; Coulson, A.L. (1940), Catalogue of meteorites: Geological Survey Of India Memoirs 75: 220.; eonard, Frederick Charles (1944), The identity of the Windmill Station with that of the “Valley Wells”, California aerolite fall: Contributions of the Society for Research on Meteorites: 3: 174-175; Pemberton, H. Earl (1983), Minerals of California; Van Nostrand Reinholt Press: 60.
Kansas Sheridan Co. Township of West Saline Saline Township meteorite	Farrington, Oliver C., Catalogue of the meteorites of North America, to January 1, 1909.
Maine Hancock Co. Castine Castine meteorite	www.maine.gov/doc/nrimc/mgs/explore/minerals/sites/mar99.htm
New York Rockland Co. Harriman State Park Grape Swamp Mountain ~~Nickel Mine (Bulson Lot)~~	Lenik, E.J. (1996) Iron Mine Trails (New York-New Jersey Trail Conference)
Oklahoma Caddo Co. Caddo County meteorite	Conference Paper, 28th Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, p. 409.
Texas Fort Bend Co. Kendleton meteorite	www.meteorites.com.au

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