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Logatchev hydrothermal field, Mid-Atlantic Ridge complex, Atlantic Ocean

Ultramafic-hosted field, consisting of active high-temperature vents located either on top of small mounds or associated with so-called smoking craters, a feature that is unique to this locality.

Ref.:
- Mozgova, N.N., Krasnov, S.G., Batuyev, B.N. Borodaev, Y.S., Efimov, A.V., Markov, V.F., and Stephanova, T.V. (1996): The first report of cobalt pentlandite from a Mid-Atlantic Ridge hydrothermal deposit. Canadian Mineralogist 34, 23-28.
- Pašava, J., Vymazalová, A., and Petersen, S. (2007): PGE fractionation in seafloor hydrothermal systems: examples from mafic- and ultramafic-hosted hydrothermal fields at the slow-spreading Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Mineralium Deposita 42, 423-431.





Mineral List:
  • Bornite
  • Chalcocite
  • Chalcopyrite
  • Cobaltpentlandite
  • Copper
    var: Auriferous Zincian Copper
  • Covellite
  • Digenite
  • Isocubanite
  • Marcasite
  • Pyrite


    10 entries listed. 9 valid minerals.

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