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Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii Co. (Hawaii Island), Hawaii, USA

Ref.: Palache, C., Berman, H., & Frondel, C. (1951), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, Yale University 1837-1892, Volume II: 402.

Stone, W.E. and Fleet, M.E. (1991) Nickel-copper sulfides from 1959 eruption of Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii; contrasting compositions and phase relations in eruption pumice and Kilauea Iki lava lake. American Mineralogist: 76: 1363-1372.

Roeder, P.L. (1994) Chromite: from the fiery rain of chondrules to the Kilauea Iki lava lake. Canadian Mineralogist: 32: 729-746.

Iron-nickel-copper sulfides occur as micrometer-sized subspherical blebs in glass inclusions within olivine phenocrysts and in glass within quenched groundmass. Bulk sulfides in the eruption pumice are enriched in Ni relative to Cu. The same species, plus chalcopyrite, are present in the Kilauea Iki lava lake, but the bulk sulfides are markedly enriched in Cu relative to Ni.





Mineral List:
'AHF'
Aphthitalite
Bornite
Chalcopyrite
Gypsum
Isocubanite
Kieserite
'Olivine'
Pentlandite
Salammoniac
Thenardite


11 entries listed. 9 valid minerals.

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