Tags: Chemical Substance, Mineral.
Cattierite (CoS2) is a cobalt sulfide mineral found in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It was discovered together with the nickel sulfide vaesite by Johannes F. Vaes a Belgian mineralologist and named after Felicien Cattier Chairman of the Board Union Miniere du Haut Katanga.The mineral belongs to the pyrite group in which all minerals share the same building principle. The metal in the oxidation state +2 forms a sodium chloride structure together with the anion S22-.