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Les Cougnasses, Hautes-Alpes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

Host rocks : Callovo-Oxfordian black marlstones.
Complex mineralization in several phases :
1) Early siderite/ankerite precipitation
2) Sulphosalt Pb/Sb deposition with successive replacements (Pb/Sb grows with time).
3) Dissolution of preexisting ore and remobilizations.
Calcite late deposition.
Cryptocrystalline (with fluidal texture) lead sulfosalts (chlorosulfosalts, boulangerite and tetrahedrite) were deposited, after the crushing of massive semseyite along a slickenside.

Ore breccias with collomorph structures of alternating pyrite, sphalerite and sulphosalts.



References:
Le Cahier des Micromonteurs,(2), 3-13





Mineral List:
Andorite
Andorite IV (TL)
Ankerite
Argentopyrite
Arsenopyrite
Bindheimite
Boulangerite
Bournonite
Calcite
Cerussite
Chalcopyrite
Covellite
Fizélyite
Fülöppite
Galena
Geocronite
Gersdorffite
Goethite
Jamesonite
Marcasite
'Melnikovite'
Plagionite
Playfairite
Pyrite
Semseyite
Siderite
Sphalerite
Stibiconite
Stibnite
Tetrahedrite
Zinkenite


31 entries listed. 29 valid minerals. 1 type locality (valid mineral).

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