a silver-white to greyish mineral consisting chiefly of cobalt arsenide with nickel in cubic crystalline form. It occurs in veins associated with silver, nickel, and copper minerals, and is an important ore of cobalt and nickel. Formula: (Co,Ni)As3-x
Word origin
C19: from smalt + -ite1
smaltite in American English
(ˈsmɔlˌtaɪt)
noun
a white to gray, natural, isometric, cobalt-nickel arsenide, (Co,Ni) As3-x