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Supergene iron sulpho-selenides from the Zapadno-Ozernoe copper-zinc massive sulphide deposit, South Urals, Russia: a new solid-solution series between pyrite FeS2 and dzharkenite FeSe2

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

V. A. Yakovleva ,
E. V. Belogub  and
K. A. Novoselov
V. A. Yakovleva*
Affiliation:
Saint-Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg, Universitetskaya nab. 7/9, 199034, Russia
E. V. Belogub
Affiliation:
Institute of Mineralogy of Urals Branch of RAS, Miass, 456301, Russia
K. A. Novoselov
Affiliation:
Institute of Mineralogy of Urals Branch of RAS, Miass, 456301, Russia
*
E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Supergene Fe sulpho-selenides (pyrite, dzharkenite and their intermediate compositions) were discovered in the oxidation zone of the Zapadno-Ozernoe copper-zinc massive sulphide deposit, South Urals, in association with other rare supergene sulphides, such as galena, tetrahedrite, metacinnabarite, tiemannite, Pb sulpharsenides of the jordanite group, undetermined sulphosalts of Hg and Ag, and native elements, such as S, Au and Se. This is the second known occurrence of dzharkenite. The results of the investigation of Fe sulpho-selenides using electron microprobe analysis, X-ray diffraction (XRD) and reflected light microscopy show the existence of a limited solid-solution series between pyrite and dzharkenite, which has not been described before.

Keywords

pyritedzharkeniteoxidationmassive sulphideselenidesulphide.
Type
Research Article
Information
Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 67 , Issue 2 , April 2003 , pp. 355 - 361
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2003

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