Heazlewoodite was first described in 1896 from Heazlewood, Tasmania, Australia.
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In this case, pentlandite may be replaced by millerite, and rarely heazlewoodite.
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"' Heazlewoodite "', Ni 3 S 2, is a rare sulfur-poor nickel sulfide mineral found in serpentinitized dunite.
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Heazlewoodite is thought to form from sulfur and nickel which exist in pristine olivine in trace amounts, and which are driven out of the olivine during metamorphic processes.
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Associated minerals include nimite, willemseite, nickeloan talc, violarite, millerite, reevesite and goethite at Bon Accord; and with native nickel, heazlewoodite and millerite at Mt.