Native nickel from the Jerry River, South Westland, New Zealand; an example of natural refining

摘要: Native nickel of composition Ni 96"3 ~, Fe 1"77 and Co 0'69 ~ was found as tiny flakes up to o'75 mm across in a heavy mineral concentrate from stream sediments the Jerry River, South Westland, New Zealand. The locality is approximately I3 km downstream original for awaruite (Ni~Fe), it shown that content detrital grains increases with distance source serpentinites Red Hills Range. It proposed native has been derived by leaching iron.