{{infobox mineral | name = Vaesite | category = Sulfide minerals | boxwidth = | image = Vaesite-626130.jpg | alt = | caption = Vaesite on a matrix | formula = NiS<sub>2</sub> | IMAsymbol = Va<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Warr|first=L.N.|date=2021|title=IMA–CNMNC approved mineral symbols|journal=Mineralogical Magazine|volume=85|issue=3|pages=291–320|doi=10.1180/mgm.2021.43|bibcode=2021MinM...85..291W|s2cid=235729616|doi-access=free}}</ref> | molweight = | strunz = | dana = | system = Isometric | class = | symmetry = | unit cell = | color = Black, silver-gray | colour = | habit = | twinning = | cleavage = Distinct/good {001} | fracture = | tenacity = | mohs = 4.5–5.5 | luster = Metallic | streak = Black | diaphaneity = Opaque | gravity = 4.45 | density = | polish = | opticalprop = | refractive = | birefringence = | pleochroism = | 2V = | dispersion = | extinction = | length fast/slow = | fluorescence= | absorption = | melt = | fusibility = | diagnostic = | solubility = | other = | alteration = | references = <ref name=Mindat>{{cite web|url= http://www.mindat.org/min-4133.html|work=mindat.org|title= Vaesite|accessdate=2021-12-17}}</ref> }}

'''Vaesite''' (NiS<sub>2</sub>) is a mineral found together with cattierite in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It is named after Johannes F. Vaes, a Belgian mineralogist.<ref>{{cite journal | title = Cattierite and Vaesite: New Co-Ni Minerals from the Belgian Kongo | first = Paul F. | last = Kerr| year = 1945|journal=American Mineralogist | volume = 30|issue=7–8| pages = 483–492| url = http://www.minsocam.org/ammin/AM30/AM30_483.pdf|s2cid=51786115|issn=1945-3027}}</ref> It is part of the pyrite group.<ref name=Mindat/>

==References== {{Reflist}} *[http://www.webmineral.com/data/Vaesite.shtml Webmineral.com - Vaesite] *[http://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/vaesite.pdf Handbook of Mineralogy - Vaesite] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201027112153/http://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/vaesite.pdf |date=2020-10-27 }}

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Category:Nickel minerals Category:Pyrite group Category:Cubic minerals Category:Minerals in space group 205 Category:Sulfide minerals Category:Minerals described in 1945

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