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Pentlandite from
Selva, Poschiavo, Bernina Region, Grisons, Switzerland


Locality type:Hamlet
Classification
Species:Pentlandite
Formula:(NixFey)Σ9S8
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pentlandite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Selva, Poschiavo, Bernina Region, Grisons, Switzerland
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1512730
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1512730:1
GUID (UUID V4):18e68f9f-972a-4814-82ba-eddbedf6a67f
Localities for Pentlandite in this Region
Quadrada (incl. Quadradin), Selva, Poschiavo, Bernina Region, Grisons, Switzerland
Selva Quarry, Selva, Poschiavo, Bernina Region, Grisons, Switzerland
Nearest other occurrences of Pentlandite
1.2km (0.7 miles) Selva Quarry, Selva, Poschiavo, Bernina Region, Grisons, Switzerland
1.5km (0.9 miles) Quadrada (incl. Quadradin), Selva, Poschiavo, Bernina Region, Grisons, Switzerland
4.0km (2.5 miles) Ur Pass, Poschiavina Valley, Campo Moro Valley, Lanzada, Sondrio Province, Lombardy, Italy
11.3km (7.0 miles) Dossi di Franscia, Franscia, Lanzada, Sondrio Province, Lombardy, Italy
12.1km (7.5 miles) Bagnada-Ponticelli Mine (ex-Bolognini Mine; ex-Unitalc Mine), Lanzada, Sondrio Province, Lombardy, Italy
27.4km (17.0 miles) Val Vedello uranium deposit, Piateda, Sondrio Province, Lombardy, Italy
31.6km (19.6 miles) Piz Lunghin, Casaccia, Upper Val Bregaglia, Bregaglia, Maloja Region, Grisons, Switzerland
32.0km (19.9 miles) Mota Farun, Casaccia, Upper Val Bregaglia, Bregaglia, Maloja Region, Grisons, Switzerland
34.7km (21.6 miles) Alp Tgavretga, Bivio, Surses, Albula Region, Grisons, Switzerland
38.8km (24.1 miles) Platta nappe, Surses, Albula Region, Grisons, Switzerland
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
later found in JosephineConnty, Oregon, Poschiavo (Switzerland), British Columbia and Quebec province...Subsequentlyawaruitewas studiedby Quervain (3) from Poschiovo(Switzerland) where it occursin situ in serpentinizedperidotires...nickel-ironoccursin considerable quantityas in Poschiavo(Switzerland) it appearsas a silverwhite, metallicdust...following data. The mineral analyzedis from Poschiavo,Switzerland. I n kl d 2 10 10 5 10 10 101 111 200...from Poschiavo is granularand pseudomorphic after cubicmineralssuchas magnetiteand pentlandite. The occurrencesof
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sulfides(pyrrhotite+_pyrite) in addition to pentlandite,and lack awaruite and heazlewoodite. The difference...tiny bright particles are finely disseminated pentlandite and awaruite. Note that they occur only within...Nia..•S8+ «FeNia + 4S= semblagepyrrhotite and pentlandite,with minor = mg + pn + aw magnetite,and possiblypyrite...+pentlandire +heazlewoodite_+ millerite c. Magnetite + pentlandite -+heazlewoodite Magnet,te +heazl ....d,te +pentlandil'e...monoclinic pyrrhotite, pm = polydymite, pn •- pentlandite, py = pyrite, tr = troilite, vl: violarite, vs
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
is consistent with the X-ray with sulfides (pentlandite and troilite) and carbides {copowder pattern...(1981)identifiedawa- l0 to 20 pm are associatedwith pentlandite, troilite, and ruite as Ni.Fe in the Parambu...isolated grains and as grains associatedwith pentlandite, also been used to refer to tetrataenite (NiFe)...sorpentinizedperidotite. Typical grain sizes are 10-300 pentlandite, and troilite in opaque nodules inside porpm...Ningqiang CK3-an hedral, or skeletal; in Poschiavo, Switzerland, awaruite chondrite (Kallemeyn et al.,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
composition from samples collected over a wide region of the Oman mantle sequence implies both a remarkably...Quervain, Awaruite and pentlandite in the serpentine of Selva near Poschiavo, Schweiz. Mineral. Petrogr
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mss2, occasionally accompanied by pyrrhotite, pentlandite and Cu-rich sulphides. Compositions of mss1 are...Compositions of mss2 are Ni-rich very close to pentlandite. Sulphide bulk compositions correspond to high-temperature...younger ages (10–0.01 Ma) of activity: L’Empordà, La Selva and La Garrotxa (Donville 1973a, b and c). La Banya...Fluvià River BB L’Empordà CA Olot Girona La Selva Mediterranean Sea CVZ Spain 10 Km b 2.819875...solid solution 1 and 2; Po, pyrrhotite; Pn, pentlandite; Ccp, calchopyrite; Iss, intermediate solid solution;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Petrographie, ETH, Sonneggstrasse 5, CH-8006 Zfirich, Switzerland 2 Department of Geological Sciences AJ-20, University...synthesis field for hydroxyl-clinohumitein the region 800~ ~ C from 29 to 77 kbars. In reconnaissance...diopside, chlorite, magnetite, T i - C1, and pentlandite. In more SiO2-rich parts of the Serpentinite...05, Fe203 = 1.08 H20=1.57 2: Alpe Canciano, Poschiavo (de Quervain 1938), FeO =6.20, Fe203 =4.69, H...metamorphic ultramafics, e.g., Val Verzasca, Tieino, Switzerland (St~iuble 1978), Ruby Range, Montana (Heinrich
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
propose that josephinite might have originated in the region of the coremantle boundary, was transported via...Several visits were made to the Josephine Creek region (Fig. 1) and a number o f specimens o f j o s e...come from the lower mantle or core-mantle boundary region of the earth. At least, the occurrence of elemental...the serpentinite/peridotite bedrock of the canyon region. Dick [3] indicates that the serpentinite bedrock...the canyon region, although awaruite is quite common in the serpentinized rocks of the region. One of the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Petrographie, ETH, Sonneggstrasse 5, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland 2 CREGU, GS CNRS 077, BP 23, F-54501 Vandoeuvre-Les-Nancy...Universit/it, Bernoullistrasse 30, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland 4 Department of Geology and Geophysics, University...Petrographie, ETH, Sonneggstrasse 5, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland Received April 12, 1991 / Accepted June 19, 1992...(Sondrio, northern Italy), the mineral assemblage pentlandite-awaruite-magnetite-native copper-antigorite-...Present address: Kehlhofweg 4, 6043 Adligenswil, Switzerland Correspondence to : A. Peretti has evidenced
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and net textured veins containing chalcopyrite-pentlandite are less common. Phlogopite ± talc ± actinolite...association of Ni-rich pyrrhotite and blocky pentlandite. Siepierski (2008) suggested that the GT-34 deposit...texture of the Sapucaia (Araújo and Maia 1991) and Selva (Siepierski and Ferreira Filho, 2016) groups. Syn-tectonic...Local gabbro bodies have been observed around the region (Costa et al. 2016) as well as fine-grained mafic...mafic rocks (Siepierski 2008). GT-34 is a pentlandite-pyrrhotite-apatite-LREE-rich nickel deposit with
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ni-Fe-S system is very important since it includes pentlandite, the major source of nickel. The system Ni-As-S...superlattice structure observed in synthetic alloys in the region FeNi3 (Hansen & Anderko, 1958) and is not a simple...the existence of two phases in this compositional region, the more sulfur-rich phase Ni7S6 breaking down...must break down at some temperature in this 100° C region. Table 24 shows that polydymite is stable at 353°...coexist. Vogt (1923) and others have envisaged pentlandite-pyrrhotite deposits forming as magmatic segregations
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sulfide-arsenide-mineralization. _At first pyrrhotite, pentlandite and chalcopyrite were formed. On decreasing metamorphic...mobilization of the early mineralized metals followed. Pentlandite altered into bravoite, simultaneously niccolite...Pentlanditflammen. Die teilweise in Bravoit umgewandelten Pentlandite sind zum grol3en Tell ausgebrochen. Gr613ere...Quervain, IV.: Die Erzrnineralien des Serpentins yon Selva-Quadrada (Puschlav). Schweiz. Mineral. Petrog. Mitt
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
recognized to the south of the Carajás ridge (e.g., Selva greenstone belt; Sequeirinho Group; Siepierski and...Ce-allanite (III), Co-pentlandite, quartz and, Ce-monazite (I) (Fig. 9B to 9E). Co-pentlandite occurs as exsolution...these veins, Co-chalcopyrite, molybdenite, Co-pentlandite, and siegenite represent important mineral phases...with pyrrhotite, Cochalcopyrite, pyrite, and Co-pentlandite. It is characterized by lower contents of C(Na...co-crystallizing sulfides (e.g., pyrite, pyrrhotite, pentlandite), as discussed by Dare et al. (2012). However
Book
iridosmium in dunites. Of sulphides: pyrrhotite, pentlandite, and chalcopyrite ("nickeliferous pyrrhotite")...coarse-grained parts which are unusually rich in pentlandite and chalcopyrite. They carry their important...iron ores by forming the sulphides pyrrhotite, pentlandite, and cubanite. Skeletal ilmenite proves the nature...White is pyrrhotite (with isolated "flames" of pentlandite); 2 or 3 grains of magnetite (light grey). Various...("solutions", "melts", and " v a p o r s ' " in this region are not sharply distinguishable). However, this
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
gas-geochemical data of reservoir gases in the region and the stratigraphy of underlying shales suggests...nearly 5 km2. The average annual precipitation in region around 340 mm, the evaporation from the water surface...of the North-Muya terrain cover (Northern Baikal region) are represented by the sediments of Yangud Fm...inferred in a high resolution are scarce in this region. Taft et al. [2, 3] have shown that the shells...will apply our approach to fossil shells from this region to examine whether this hypothesis is supported
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
regional structural studies in the Serra Leste region indicate significant tectonic transport that may...magnetic mafic dykes that occurs in the Serra Leste region (Teixeira, 2013; Teixeira et al., 2015). Geological...mainly by orthopyroxenite. Base metal sulfides (pentlandite > pyrrhotite > >> chalcopyrite) interstitial...and their host rocks in the Serra Leste CE P region are a debated issue (Dardenne et al., 1988; Suita...obtained for layered intrusions of the Serra Leste region, are consistent with original mantle melts contaminated
Book (volume)
e, in splendidi campioni, nelle vicinanze di Poschiavo (Scor­ taseo ), sempre in piu o meno immediata...affiorano rocce serpentinose {Val d'Aosta, Val d'Ala, Poschiavo, ecc.). Nel serpentine, l'amianto si trova in...piccoli cristalli neri, nelle fessure alpine presso Selva in Val Tavetsch. Torite e huttonite Silicati di...demantoide, hessonite, ilmenite, magnetite, pentlandite, ra me nativo, vesu ­ vianite, titanite, zeo/iti...possibilita di splendide ascensioni ai gruppi del Bernina e del Disgrazia. La fama alpinistica della valle
Book (volume)
rocce serpenti­ nose di alcune localita (Selva, a sud di Poschiavo nei Grigioni), associata a caratteristici...caratteristici solfuri di nichel (heazlewoodite, pentlandite) . Piu ricca di nichel, ma sostanzialmente simile...Voltri, ecc. , sempre associato a magnetite, pentlandite ed heazlewoo­ dite, incluso in granuletti nel...Pirrotina M ackinawite M illerite Pentlandite { Cobalto- Pentlandite H eazlewoodite { Siegenite- Linneite...microscopici, associata ad altri minerali di niche! (pentlandite, jose­ phinite) questa specie compare anche in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
variable 597 proportions of pyrrhotite and pentlandite) at the bottom of inclusions (Fig. 5G) and 598...in the south 819 border of the Carajas ridge, Selva Greenstone belt, Carajás Province, Brazil. J. South... an Archean 826 greenstone belt of Rio Maria region (Carajás Province, Brazil): implications for the
Book (edition)
are not abbreviated, e.g. canton (Switzerland), vilayet (Turkey), region (Chile), kray and oblast (Russia)...by Mobutu, and is now the Katanga administrative region again. The former Kivu province is now divided...United States or of the Upper Silesian historical region in Poland, where the importance of ore-bearing...Kunlun Mts., near Hotan, Xinjiang Uygur Autom. region, China, also at Fengtien, Taiwan. Green at Ospinskoye...SwitzerlandItaly, overlooking Binntal, Valais canton, Switzerland, also crystals in Obersulzbachtal Valley, Salzburg
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Rhythmites of the Trzebionka Mine, Upper Silesian-Cracow Region, Poland L. Fontbote and G.C. Amstutz (With 2 Figures)...Subvolcanic Rocks Native Tellurium from Musariu, Brad Region, Metaliferi (Metalici) Mountains, Romania I. Berbeleac...Sandstones of Central Europe 11 The Lower Silesian region covers the Polish sector of Hercynides in Central...Europe. The major structural elements within the region are (from south to north): the Sudetic Block, The...application to the recent structural framework of this region, but it would be more reasonable to call it the
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Rhythmites of the Trzebionka Mine, Upper Silesian-Cracow Region, Poland L. Fontbote and G.C. Amstutz (With 2 Figures)...Subvolcanic Rocks Native Tellurium from Musariu, Brad Region, Metaliferi (Metalici) Mountains, Romania I. Berbeleac...Sandstones of Central Europe 11 The Lower Silesian region covers the Polish sector of Hercynides in Central...Europe. The major structural elements within the region are (from south to north): the Sudetic Block, The...application to the recent structural framework of this region, but it would be more reasonable to call it the
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found at the Alekseevskoye gold occurrence, Sutam region, Stanovoi Range, SE Yakutia. The mineral occurs...occurs 'as rims and microveinlets and replaces pentlandite in massive pyrrhotite and cubanite ores with...SEM-photo, 120'. Name: Ag-bearing mineral close to pentlandite. TS: FM 74159 ANYUIITE, AuPb2 Anyuiite was found...BaCa1(PO4 )6F3 [643). Name: for discovery in Arctic Region. T S: FM821 32; PMM 120/1; K SC 5708/2 28 ARGENTOPENTLAND...firstly described in 1 971 as <pentlandite,» (Fe,Ni,Ag)9S8, which was found at the Oktyabr'skoye
Report (volume)
1. Preliminary map, Duparquet-Larder Lake-Rouyn region, Ontario and Quebec : Canada Geol. Survey Paper...copper country, Keweenaw Peninsula, Lake Michigan region: Rocks and Minerals, vol. 19, no. 1, p. 3-6, Jan...Pennsylvania as affecting the faunal life of the region : Ruffed Grouse, no. 1, p. 6-9, 1944. Asano, Kiyoshi...1945. 4. Ancient maples of the central Washington region: Northwest Sci., vol. 18, no. 4, Nov. 1944, p....lake basin seal in certain areas of the Trout Lake region of Wisconsin : Wisconsin Acad. Sci. Trans. vol
Journal (volume)
language. Rubies are also found in the Chantabiri region of Thailand and around Pailin and Channop in Cambodia...An example of natural silver, from the sarrabus region of Sardinia. CHARACTERISTICS Silver is white in...Gennaro Cathedral, Naples. silver from the sarrabus region of Sardinia. it was originally found in a pure...of amethysts is found is the Rio Grande do Sul region of Brazil. Other significant deposits of amethysts...oemantoids were first discovered in the 1890s in a region on the western side of the Ural Mountains in Russia
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nada de esto se hubiese logrado. “Soy desierto, selva, nieve, y volcan.” C H A P T E R 1 A Brief History...illuminated the northern latitudes and the north polar region. By combining coverage of the southern hemisphere...suggested that the Flora family may be a source region for the L chondrites, providing a plausible composition...spacecraft entered a safe mode to escape the shadowed region it entered and travelled back away along the entry...about 600 m in the Baetica region, in the north pole crater cluster. This region of 21 Lutetia shows evidence
 
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