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Ag-Cu exchange equilibria between α-miargyrite, chalcostibite, pyrargyrite, and high-skinnerite: constraints on Ag-Cu mixing in α-miargyrite and chalcostibite

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

D. E. Harlov
D. E. Harlov*
Affiliation:
Projektbereich 4.1, GeoForschungsZentrum, Telegrafenberg, D-14473 Potsdam, Germany
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Abstract

Ag-Cu exchange equilibria between α-miargyrite AgSbS2 and pyrargyrite Ag3SbS3 and between chalcostibite CuSbS2 and both pyrargyrite and high-skinnerite Cu3SbS3 are reported for the temperature range 150–350°C. All of these features are constrained by Ag-Cu exchange experiments (evacuated silica tubes; variable mass ratio) over the temperature range 120–400°C. Chalcostibite is found to take very little Ag into its structure. Utilizing Ag-Cu data from this study as well as the Ag-Cu solution models for pyrargyrite and high-skinnerite, a two-site Ag-Cu non-convergent ordered solution model for α-miargyrite () and a one-site Ag-Cu mixing model for chalcostibite ( = 25.0 kJ/gfw) are formulated. These results are constrained by a miscibility gap between α-miargyrite and chalcostibite from 225 to 325°C. The mixing model for α-miargyrite is expanded to include As for which α-miargyrite has a limited solubility along the Sb-As join with smithite AgAsS2.

Keywords

Ag-Cu exchange experimentsmiargyritechalcostibitepyrargyriteskinneriteAg-Cu solution modelAs-Sb solution model
Type
Research Article
Information
Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 63 , Issue 3 , June 1999 , pp. 399 - 411
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1999

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