Oregonite

Short description: Mineral

Oregonite

Oregonite, awaruite (dimensions: 11 mm x 4 mm x 5 mm)

General
Category| Sulfide minerals
Formula
(repeating unit)| Ni2FeAs2
Strunz classification| 2.BB.05
Crystal system| Hexagonal
Unknown space group
Identification
Color| white
Mohs scale hardness| 5
|re|er}}| metallic
References| [1][2][3]

Oregonite, Ni2FeAs2 is a nickel iron arsenide mineral first described from Josephine Creek, Oregon, United States.

Oregonite crystallises in the hexagonal crystal system and has a Mohs hardness of 5.

## Occurrence

See also: Skouriotissa

Oregonite is known, apart from its type locality, from the Chirnaisky Massif, Russia, associated with hydrothermal nickel minerals (millerite, heazelwoodite) in a metamorphosed ultramafic; from the Skouriatissa mine, Cyprus, associated with VMS mineralisation; and from the Kidd Mine, Timmins, Ontario, Canada within serpentinite-hosted chromite deposits.

## References

1. ↑ Mineralienatlas
2. ↑ Oregonite on Mindat.org
3. ↑ Webmineral data
4. ↑ Warr, L.N. (2021). "IMA–CNMNC approved mineral symbols". Mineralogical Magazine 85 (3): 291–320. doi:10.1180/mgm.2021.43. Bibcode: 2021MinM...85..291W.

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