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Two new occurrences of benleonardite, a rare silver-tellurium sulphosalt, and a possible new occurrence of cervelleite

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

Paul G. Spry  and
Scotf E. Thieben
Paul G. Spry
Affiliation:
Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, 253 Science I, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011-3210, USA
Scotf E. Thieben
Affiliation:
Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, 253 Science I, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011-3210, USA
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Abstract

Benleonardite, ideally Ag8(Sb,As)Te253, occurs in ore specimens from the Mayflower and Gies epithermal gold-silver telluride deposits in Montana commonly spatially associated with hessite and tetrahedrite. In these deposits, it is Cu-bearing (up to 2.7 wt.%) and exhibits a slight deficiency in Ag+Cu coupled with a slight excess in S. A cervelleite-like mineral coexists with benleonardite at Mayflower and is unusual in composition in that it is Se-bearing suggesting the possibility of solid solution with aguilarite (Ag4SeS).

Keywords

benleonarditecervelleiteMayflower mineGies mine, Montana
Type
Mineralogy
Information
Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 60 , Issue 403 , December 1996 , pp. 871 - 876
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1996

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