Editing Skutterudite (section)

== Origins ==
Skutterudite has been known since the [[Middle Ages]], when it was used in the production of [[smalt]].<ref>{{Citation |last=Kraft |first=Alexander |title=Dorothea Juliana Wallich (1657–1725) and Her Contributions to the Chymical Knowledge about the Element Cobalt |date=August 2019 |work=Women in Their Element |pages=57–69 |url=https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/9789811206290_0002 |access-date=2025-05-29 |publisher=World Scientific |language=en |doi=10.1142/9789811206290_0002 |isbn=978-981-12-0628-3}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Cavallo |first=Giovanni |last2=Riccardi |first2=Maria Pia |date=November 2021 |title=Glass-based pigments in painting: smalt blue and lead–tin yellow type II |url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/s12520-021-01453-7 |journal=Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences |language=en |volume=13 |issue=11 |doi=10.1007/s12520-021-01453-7 |issn=1866-9557}}</ref> It was discovered in the Skuterud Mines, [[Modum]], [[Buskerud]], Norway, in 1845.<ref name="mindat" /> Smaltite is an alternative name for the mineral.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Uher |first=Ctirad |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781000367195 |title=Thermoelectric Skutterudites |date=2021-04-27 |publisher=CRC Press |isbn=978-1-003-10541-1 |edition=1 |location=Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2021. |pages=xi |language=en |doi=10.1201/9781003105411}}</ref> Notable occurrences include [[Cobalt, Ontario]]<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Walker |first=T. L. |date=1921-03-01 |title=Skutterudite from Cobalt, Ontario1 |url=https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/msa/ammin/article-abstract/6/3/54/536095/Skutterudite-from-Cobalt-Ontario1 |journal=American Mineralogist |volume=6 |issue=3 |pages=54–56 |issn=0003-004X}}</ref> and [[Franklin, New Jersey]], in the United States.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Oen |first=S |last2=Dunn |first2=P. J. |last3=Kieft |first3=C. |date=1984 |title=The nickel-arsenide assemblage from Franklin, New Jersey: description and interpretation |url=https://pascal-francis.inist.fr/vibad/index.php?action=getRecordDetail&idt=8933897 |journal=Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie. Abhandlungen |volume=150 |issue=3 |pages=259–272 |issn=0077-7757}}</ref>