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Arsenohauchecornite and tellurohauchecornite: new minerals in the hauchecornite group

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

Robert I. Gait
Affiliation:
Department of Mineralogy and Geology, Royal Ontario Museum 100 Queen's Park, Toronto Ontario M5S 2C6
Donald C. Harris
Affiliation:
CANMET, 555 Booth Street, Ottawa Ontario K1A 0G1

Summary

Arsenohauchecornite, Ni9BiAsS8, and tellurohauchecornite, Ni9BiTeS8 from the Sudbury area, Ontario, are now recognized as distinct mineral species in the Hauchecornite Group and not as varieties as described previously. Descriptions of these two minerals are given, summarized from Gait and Harris (1972).

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1980

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References

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