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The Te2 analogue of ognitite.\r\n\r\nMay incorporate Bi, with the limit at \u003C0.5 Bi apfu, as observed for natural (Kingash and Kuskanak complexes) and synthetic materials (Barkov et al., 2017).","After the type locality - the Melones Mine, Calaveras County, California.","2025-08-11 12:14:22",[74],{"id":75,"name":76,"entrytype":77,"csystem":11,"ima_formula":11,"mindat_formula":78,"hmin":11,"hmax":11,"dmeas":40,"dcalc":11,"primary_image_id":11},10659,"Palladium-bearing Melonite",2,"(Ni,Pd)Te\u003Csub>2\u003C\u002Fsub>",[80,87,95,101,107,112],{"id":81,"name":82,"entrytype":9,"csystem":35,"ima_formula":83,"mindat_formula":83,"hmin":42,"hmax":77,"dmeas":84,"dcalc":85,"primary_image_id":86},637,"Berndtite","SnS\u003Csub>2\u003C\u002Fsub>","4.5","4.55",3126,{"id":88,"name":89,"entrytype":9,"csystem":35,"ima_formula":90,"mindat_formula":90,"hmin":91,"hmax":91,"dmeas":92,"dcalc":93,"primary_image_id":94},2219,"Kitkaite","NiTeSe",3.5,"7.22","7.19",13385,{"id":96,"name":97,"entrytype":9,"csystem":35,"ima_formula":98,"mindat_formula":98,"hmin":77,"hmax":99,"dmeas":40,"dcalc":100,"primary_image_id":11},2650,"Merenskyite","PdTe\u003Csub>2\u003C\u002Fsub>",3,"8.547",{"id":102,"name":103,"entrytype":9,"csystem":35,"ima_formula":104,"mindat_formula":104,"hmin":77,"hmax":99,"dmeas":40,"dcalc":105,"primary_image_id":106},2754,"Moncheite","Pt(Te,Bi)\u003Csub>2\u003C\u002Fsub>","9.88",13607,{"id":108,"name":109,"entrytype":9,"csystem":35,"ima_formula":110,"mindat_formula":110,"hmin":99,"hmax":99,"dmeas":40,"dcalc":111,"primary_image_id":11},7292,"Shuangfengite","IrTe\u003Csub>2\u003C\u002Fsub>","10.14",{"id":113,"name":114,"entrytype":9,"csystem":35,"ima_formula":115,"mindat_formula":115,"hmin":77,"hmax":116,"dmeas":40,"dcalc":117,"primary_image_id":118},7321,"Sudovikovite","PtSe\u003Csub>2\u003C\u002Fsub>",2.5,"9.7",23200,[120,129,137],{"id":121,"name":122,"entrytype":9,"csystem":123,"ima_formula":124,"mindat_formula":124,"hmin":125,"hmax":126,"dmeas":40,"dcalc":127,"primary_image_id":128},2264,"Kotulskite","Hexagonal","Pd(Te,Bi)\u003Csub>2-x\u003C\u002Fsub> (x ≈ 0.4)",4,4.5,"9.18",13606,{"id":130,"name":131,"entrytype":9,"csystem":132,"ima_formula":133,"mindat_formula":133,"hmin":116,"hmax":99,"dmeas":134,"dcalc":135,"primary_image_id":136},3180,"Petzite","Isometric","Ag\u003Csub>3\u003C\u002Fsub>AuTe\u003Csub>2\u003C\u002Fsub>","8.7","8.74",19202,{"id":138,"name":139,"entrytype":9,"csystem":35,"ima_formula":140,"mindat_formula":140,"hmin":116,"hmax":99,"dmeas":40,"dcalc":40,"primary_image_id":11},4205,"Volynskite","AgBiTe\u003Csub>2\u003C\u002Fsub>",[],[143],{"id":144,"txt":145,"latitude":146,"longitude":147,"country":148},3446,"Stanislaus Mine, Carson Hill Gold Mining Company Mines (Carson Hill Mines), Melones, Carson Hill Mining District (Melones Mining District), Calaveras County, California, USA",38.0213889,-120.5036111,"USA",246,[151,154,158,162,166,170,174,179,183,187],{"id":152,"year":26,"html":153,"doi":11},16116762,"Genth, F.A. (1868) Contributions to mineralogy - No. VII. American Journal of Science and Arts: 45: 305-321 (313).",{"id":155,"year":156,"html":157,"doi":11},16116763,1899,"Hillebrand, W.F. (1899) Mineralogical notes: melonite (?), coloradoite, petzite, hessite American Journal of Science, 4th. series: 8: 295-298.",{"id":159,"year":160,"html":161,"doi":11},16116764,1937,"Ramdohr (1937) Zbl. Min.: A: 193.",{"id":163,"year":164,"html":165,"doi":11},1118651,1944,"Palache, Charles, Berman, Harry, Frondel, Clifford (1944) \u003Ci>The System of Mineralogy\u003C\u002Fi> (7th ed.) Vol. 1 - Elements, Sulfides, Sulfosalts, Oxides. John Wiley and Sons, New York.",{"id":167,"year":168,"html":169,"doi":11},521877,1949,"Thompson, R. M. (1949) The telluride minerals and their occurrence in Canada. \u003Ci>American Mineralogist\u003C\u002Fi>,  34 (5-6) 341-382 \u003Ca target='_blank' href='http:\u002F\u002Fwww.minsocam.org\u002Fammin\u002FAM34\u002FAM34_341.pdf' class='refpdflink'>\u003C\u002Fa>",{"id":171,"year":172,"html":173,"doi":11},16116766,1969,"Rucklidge, J. (1969) Electron microprobe investigations of platinum metal minerals from Ontario. The Canadian Mineralogist: 9(5): 617–628 (626).",{"id":175,"year":176,"html":177,"doi":178},281233,1970,"Nickel, E.H. (1970) The application of ligand-field concepts to an understanding of the structural stabilities and solid-solution limits of sulphides and related minerals. \u003Ci>Chemical Geology\u003C\u002Fi>,  5 (4) 233-241 \u003Ca target='_blank' href='https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.1016\u002F0009-2541(70)90040-9'>doi:10.1016\u002F0009-2541(70)90040-9\u003C\u002Fa>","10.1016\u002F0009-2541(70)90040-9",{"id":180,"year":181,"html":182,"doi":11},16116767,1996,"Bensch, W., Heid, W., Muhler, M., Jobic, S., Brec, R., Rouxel, J. (1996) Anionic polymer bonds in nickel ditelluride: crystal structure, and experimental and theoretical band structure. Journal of Solid State Chemistry: 121: 87-94.",{"id":184,"year":185,"html":186,"doi":11},16965934,2005,"(2005) Melonite. \u003Ci>Handbook of Mineralogy\u003C\u002Fi>. Mineralogical Society of America \u003Ca target='_blank' href='https:\u002F\u002Fwww.handbookofmineralogy.org\u002Fpdfs\u002Fmelonite.pdf' class='refpdflink'>\u003C\u002Fa>",{"id":188,"year":189,"html":190,"doi":191},244902,2017,"Barkov, Andrei Y., Shvedov, Gennadiy I., Flemming, Roberta L., Vymazalová, Anna, Martin, Robert F. (2017) Melonite from Kingash and Kuskanak, Eastern Sayans, Russia, and the extent of Bi-for-Te substitution in melonite and synthetic Ni(Te,Bi)\u003Csub>2\u003C\u002Fsub>\u003Csub>–x\u003C\u002Fsub>. \u003Ci>Mineralogical Magazine\u003C\u002Fi>,  81 (3) 695-705 \u003Ca target='_blank' href='https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.1180\u002Fminmag.2016.080.119'>doi:10.1180\u002Fminmag.2016.080.119\u003C\u002Fa>","10.1180\u002Fminmag.2016.080.119",[193,203,210,218,228,238],{"id":194,"source_url":195,"license_code":196,"credit_html":197,"title":198,"description":199,"author":200,"original_width":201,"original_height":202},15837,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=97871934","CC BY-SA 3.0","Robert M. Lavinsky, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=97871934\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Melonite-587385.png","\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FMelonite\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Melonite\">Melonite\u003C\u002Fa>, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FCalaverite\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Calaverite\">Calaverite\u003C\u002Fa>\n\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>Locality: Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>Size: 1.7 cm x 1.7 cm x 0.9 cm\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>Melonite is a rare nickel telluride. This is a showy, solid foliated mass of lustrous, slightly iridescent melonite with a bit of brassy, golden pyrite on one side from this major nickel producing area. Rarely available, rich and excellent material.\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>","Robert M. Lavinsky",675,592,{"id":204,"source_url":205,"license_code":196,"credit_html":206,"title":207,"description":199,"author":200,"original_width":208,"original_height":209},15838,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=97871937","Robert M. Lavinsky, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=97871937\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Melonite-587386.png",945,838,{"id":211,"source_url":212,"license_code":196,"credit_html":213,"title":214,"description":215,"author":200,"original_width":216,"original_height":217},15836,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10161972","Robert M. Lavinsky, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10161972\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Melonite-Calaverite-219105.jpg","\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FMelonite\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Melonite\">Melonite\u003C\u002Fa>, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FCalaverite\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Calaverite\">Calaverite\u003C\u002Fa>\n\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>Locality: Cresson Mine, Eclipse Gulch, Cripple Creek District, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FTeller_County,_Colorado\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Teller County, Colorado\">Teller County\u003C\u002Fa>, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FColorado\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Colorado\">Colorado\u003C\u002Fa>, USA (\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.mindat.org\u002Floc-10384.html\">Locality at mindat.org\u003C\u002Fa>)\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>Size: 1.3 x 0.9 x 0.4 cm.\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>Melonite is an uncommon nickel telluride. This fine thumbnail from the Cresson Mine at Cripple Creek features at rich plate of melonite pseudomorphing calaverite (gold telluride) crystals and is very nicely accented by a small rosette of quartz crystals. The melonite rests on a thin crust of tiny quartz crystals. Highly representative of the species and historic locale. Probably very old material, too.\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>",433,600,{"id":219,"source_url":220,"license_code":221,"credit_html":222,"title":223,"description":224,"author":225,"original_width":226,"original_height":227},5327,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=75940415","CC BY-SA 4.0","David Hospital, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=75940415\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Chekhovichite and melonite.jpg","Light green waxy mass of the extremely rare tellurium mineral chekhovichite associated to bronze metallic melonite from the type locality: Zod Mine, Geghark Province, Armenia.","David Hospital",709,667,{"id":229,"source_url":230,"license_code":231,"credit_html":232,"title":233,"description":234,"author":235,"original_width":236,"original_height":237},15839,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=97872189","CC BY 3.0","Erik Vercammen, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=97872189\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Melonite, Quartz, Pyrite-727083.jpg","\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FMelonite\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Melonite\">Melonite\u003C\u002Fa>, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FCalaverite\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Calaverite\">Calaverite\u003C\u002Fa>\n\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>Locality: Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>Size: 25 mm x 18 mm x 11 mm\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>Foliated melonite in quartz, pyrite on the back of the specimen. The label gives 'Cross, Australia' as the locality, but according to Ralph Bottrill: \"The only verified occurrence of large specimens of melonite in Australia, to my knowledge, is the Kambalda nickel mines, in the Fischer and Lunnon shoots.\" Collection and photo Erik Vercammen.\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>","Erik Vercammen",2856,2144,{"id":239,"source_url":240,"license_code":241,"credit_html":242,"title":243,"description":244,"author":245,"original_width":246,"original_height":247},32190,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=118202841","CC BY-SA 2.0","Pacific Museum of Earth from Canada, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=118202841\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Altaite with Petzite, Melonite, and Gold (47814843201).jpg","\u003Cp>Colorado, USA\n\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Col>\u003Cli>1100\u003C\u002Fli>\u003C\u002Fol>","Pacific Museum of Earth from Canada",4000,6000,[249,256],{"id":250,"url":251,"label":252,"formula":253,"spacegroup":254,"year":255},8661,"\u002Fcif\u002F8661.cif","Wyckoff 1963","Ni Te2","P -3 m 1",1963,{"id":257,"url":258,"label":259,"formula":253,"spacegroup":254,"year":260},8662,"\u002Fcif\u002F8662.cif","Peacock 1946",1946,[262,263],"Meloniet","Tellurnickel",[265,269,273,277,280,283,287,290,294,299],{"lang":266,"names":267},"ca",[268],"melonita",{"lang":270,"names":271},"de",[272],"Melonit",{"lang":274,"names":275},"eu",[276],"Melonita",{"lang":278,"names":279},"fr",[7],{"lang":281,"names":282},"it",[7],{"lang":284,"names":285},"nb",[286],"melonitt",{"lang":288,"names":289},"nn",[286],{"lang":291,"names":292},"ru",[293],"Мелонит",{"lang":295,"names":296},"ta",[297,298],"NiTe2","மெலோனைட்டு",{"lang":300,"names":301},"uk",[302,303],"Мелоніт","Телурський нікель","Q3854304",{"history":11,"applications":11}]